Hidden inside retcon sit cornet and retcon, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cornet and retcon tie for the highest Scrabble score from retcon at 8 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in retcon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retcon 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 cornet and retcon, 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retcon. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cento, conte, crone, oncet, recon, and recto, 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 retcon produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, cone, core, corn, note, once, and rent. For points, the strongest plays are cent, cero, cert, cone, core, corn, cote, once, and torc — 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 retcon turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, net, nor, not, one, ten, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are con, cor, cot, eco, orc, rec, roc, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retcon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, et, ne, no, oe, on, or, re, te, and to — 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 retcon 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.
retcon is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
retcon is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retcon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cornet and retcon, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retcon 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 retcon produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.