What RECENCY Means
- noun: a time immediately before the present
- noun: the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
RECENCY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 E1 C3 E1 N1 C3 Y4.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In RECENCY
36 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
5 letter words (4)
4 letter words (11)
3 letter words (14)
2 letter words (7)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.