Hidden inside recreant sit recanter and recreant, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 156 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recanter and recreant tie for the highest Scrabble score from recreant at 10 points. The top 10 of 156 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in recreant: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recreant itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are recanter and recreant, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recreant produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caterer. For points, the strongest plays are caterer, centare, crenate, recrate, reenact, retrace, and terrace — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recreant turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with career, center, create, nearer, neater, and recent. For points, the strongest plays are canter, careen, career, carnet, carter, center, centra, centre, cerate, cetane, crater, create, ecarte, nectar, recane, recant, recent, tanrec, tenace, tenrec, tracer, and trance — 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recreant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, eaten, enter, and react. For points, the strongest plays are caner, carer, caret, carte, cater, crane, crate, enact, erect, nacre, racer, rance, react, recta, terce, and trace — 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 recreant produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart, cent, earn, near, neat, and race. For points, the strongest plays are acne, acre, cane, cant, care, carn, carr, cart, cate, cent, cere, cert, cete, narc, race, and tace — 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 recreant turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, are, art, ate, can, and car. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, can, car, cat, cee, rec, and tec — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recreant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, at, en, er, et, na, ne, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in recreant and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
recreant 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for recreant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
recreant is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recreant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are recanter and recreant, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recreant 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 recreant produce 156 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.