Hidden inside reconquer sit conquerer and reconquer, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
conquerer and reconquer tie for the highest Scrabble score from reconquer at 20 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in reconquer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reconquer 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 conquerer and reconquer, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reconquer produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: conquer, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reconquer turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corner. For points, the strongest plays are conure, corner, encore, and ouncer — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reconquer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with queen and queer. For points, the strongest plays are queen, queer, quern, and roque — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reconquer produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, core, corn, cure, and once. For points, the strongest plays are cere, cero, cone, core, corn, cure, curn, curr, ecru, once, and unco — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reconquer turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, nor, one, our, and run. For points, the strongest plays are cee, con, cor, cru, cue, cur, eco, ecu, orc, rec, and roc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reconquer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, ne, no, nu, oe, on, or, re, and un — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reconquer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reconquer 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.
reconquer 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 reconquer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
reconquer is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reconquer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are conquerer and reconquer, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reconquer 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 reconquer produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.