Hidden inside reconfirm sit confirmer and reconfirm, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
confirmer and reconfirm tie for the highest Scrabble score from reconfirm at 16 points. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in reconfirm: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reconfirm itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are confirmer and reconfirm, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reconfirm. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are informer, reinform, and reniform, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reconfirm produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with confirm. For points, the strongest plays are comfier and confirm — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reconfirm turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corner, firmer and former. For points, the strongest play is formic — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reconfirm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crime, finer and force. For points, the strongest plays are fermi, force, and forme — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reconfirm produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, come and cone. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including firm, foci and form.
Unscrambling reconfirm turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, for and ice. For points, the strongest play is fem — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reconfirm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in and me. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reconfirm plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reconfirm and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
reconfirm is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for reconfirm. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
reconfirm is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reconfirm unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are confirmer and reconfirm, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reconfirm earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in reconfirm produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.