Hidden inside reconnect sit concenter, connecter, and reconnect, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
concenter, connecter, and reconnect tie for the highest Scrabble score from reconnect at 13 points. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in reconnect: two come from rearranging its letters, and reconnect 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 concenter, connecter, and reconnect, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reconnect. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is concrete, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reconnect produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with concern, concert, and connect. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including concern, concert and connect.
Unscrambling reconnect turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center and recent. For points, the strongest play is coerce — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reconnect. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter. For points, the strongest play is recce — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reconnect produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, cone and core. For points, the strongest play is croc — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reconnect turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, net and nor. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including con, cee and cor.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reconnect. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, and to. For points, 11 words tie at 2 points, including no, on and or.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reconnect plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reconnect 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.
reconnect 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
reconnect is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reconnect unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are concenter, connecter, and reconnect, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reconnect 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 reconnect produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.