Hidden inside recons sit censor, crones, and recons, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
censor, crones, and recons tie for the highest Scrabble score from recons at 8 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in recons: two come from rearranging its letters, and recons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are censor, crones, and recons, 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cones, cores, corns, and score. For points, the strongest plays are ceros, cones, cores, corns, corse, crone, recon, scone, score, and scorn — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recons produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, cons, core, corn, nose, once, and ones. For points, the strongest plays are cero, cone, cons, core, corn, cors, ecos, once, orcs, recs, and rocs — 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 recons turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, nor, one, and son. For points, the strongest plays are con, cor, cos, eco, orc, rec, roc, sec, and soc — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, ne, no, oe, on, or, os, re, and so — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
27 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in recons plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in recons and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
recons 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
recons is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are censor, crones, and recons, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recons 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 recons produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.