Hidden inside recentness sit recentness and sentencers, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 202 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recentness and sentencers tie for the highest Scrabble score from recentness at 12 points. The top 10 of 202 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in recentness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recentness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are recentness and sentencers, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recentness turns up 5 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sentences. For points, the strongest plays are erectness, scenester, senescent, sentencer, and sentences — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recentness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sentence. For points, the strongest plays are centeses, centners, secretes, sentence, and sesterce — 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 recentness produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, essence, resents, screens, and secrets. For points, the strongest plays are censers, centers, centner, centres, creeses, cresset, essence, resects, screens, secerns, secrete, secrets, senesce, and tenrecs — 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 recentness turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, enters, recent, recess, resent, scenes, and scents. For points, the strongest plays are censer, censes, center, centre, certes, creese, crests, erects, recent, recess, resect, scenes, scents, screen, screes, secern, secret, tenrec, and terces — 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 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recentness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, enter, nests, rents, rests, scene, and scent. For points, the strongest plays are cense, cents, ceres, certs, cetes, cress, crest, erect, scene, scent, scree, sects, and terce — 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 recentness produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, nest, nets, rent, rest, seen, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are cees, cent, cere, cert, cess, cete, recs, secs, sect, and tecs — 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 recentness turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, see, set, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are cee, rec, sec, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recentness. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are en, er, es, et, ne, re, 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in recentness plus one additional letter.
recentness 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 two senses for recentness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
recentness is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recentness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are recentness and sentencers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recentness 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 recentness produce 202 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.