Unscramble RECANTS and you have 229 words, RECANTS itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. RECANTS has 6 anagrams here, CANTERS, CARNETS, NECTARS, SCANTER, TANRECS and TRANCES, scoring 9 like RECANTS itself. It has 7 letters, 2 vowels and 5 consonants. RECANTS as a single 7-tile play makes 59 in Scrabble, 9 plus the 50 bonus, and 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from RECANTS split into 7 with 7 letters, 33 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 53 with 3 and 16 with 2.
29 of 33 6-letter words in RECANTS tie at 8 points; none scores more. TRANCE, TRACES and STANCE will look familiar.
Of the 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble RECANTS, 44 score 7 points, the group's best. RATES, ACRES and TRACE are the ones most people know.
33 of 60 4-letter words from RECANTS tie at 6 points; none scores more. CASE, CARE and CART will look familiar.
53 3-letter words in RECANTS; 10 of them share the top score of 5. ARE, CAN and SET are everyday picks.
Trade one tile of RECANTS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with RE · ending in TS · all 7-letter words
RECANTS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept RECANTS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RECANTS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 229) | 195 | 229 | 182 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
34 of the 229 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CRANTS, CREANT, CRENAS, CRESTA, ACERS, CRANS, CRENA, SCEAT, SCRAE, SCRAT, ACER, AESC and 22 more. 13 of the 229 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CENTAS, CERTS, SCRAN, CERT, TECS, TEC, NAES, NARE, ATS, EST, SAN, TES and 1 more.
Each word below uses all the letters of RECANTS and one more.