RECTO is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. RECTO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RECTO?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RECTO is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RECTO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RECTO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RECTO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,892.
What does RECTO mean in Scrabble?
noun
printing
The right-hand page of an open book, or the front side of a single printed leaf, as opposed to the verso.
Printers number every sheet of a bound volume so that the odd numbers always fall on the face a reader sees first when turning through it, and recto marks exactly that recurring position, sheet after sheet, all the way through a bound text. Its counterpart, verso, marks the opposite face on the same sheet, and together the pair lets editors and librarians point to one particular face of a folded or loose sheet without relying on directional terms that shift depending on how something is held. Scholars cataloguing old manuscripts write recto beside a folio number for the same reason, marking the near face of a loose sheet even when no facing sheet survives at all.
How RECTO is used
A technical term from printing, publishing and manuscript studies, rarely used outside those fields.
- The illustration was printed on the recto of the first page.
- She noted that the signature appeared on the recto rather than the verso.
- Each chapter of the old manuscript began on a fresh recto.
- The printer checked that every recto lined up correctly before binding.
- A faint watermark was visible only on the recto of that particular leaf.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RECTO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RECTO
16 longer words begin with RECTO.
Words with RECTO inside
Showing 24 of 70 words that contain RECTO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RECTO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RECTO
Common questions about RECTO
- Is RECTO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RECTO, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RECTO worth?
- RECTO is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RECTO mean?
- The right-hand page of an open book, or the front side of a single printed leaf, as opposed to the verso.
- What letters can be added to RECTO?
- RECTO takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RECTO:
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