RECOVERY is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. RECOVERY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RECOVERY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RECOVERY is to know. It scores 16 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RECOVERY
No single letter turns RECOVERY into another word.
How RECOVERY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in RECOVERY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 2 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so RECOVERY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does RECOVERY mean in Scrabble?
noun
The process of getting better after illness or setback, or of getting back something that was lost.
Recovery covers many areas: a patient returning to health, an economy bouncing back, a stolen car found by police, or a broken-down vehicle towed away. What links them is a return from a worse state or position.
How RECOVERY is used
Common in medicine, finance, law enforcement and computing (data recovery).
- Her recovery from the operation was faster than expected.
- Analysts predict a slow economic recovery next year.
- The recovery of the stolen paintings made the news.
- Data recovery software can sometimes restore deleted files.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RECOVERY and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in RECOVERY
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Common questions about RECOVERY
- Is RECOVERY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RECOVERY, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RECOVERY worth?
- RECOVERY is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RECOVERY mean?
- The process of getting better after illness or setback, or of getting back something that was lost.
- What letters can be added to RECOVERY?
- No single letter can be added to RECOVERY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of RECOVERY:
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