Is RECENT a word?

RECENT is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends, has 6 letters, and can be rearranged into 3 other words, plus 38 shorter words built from the same letters.

Yes, RECENT is a valid word.

Scrabble 8Words With Friends 10Length 6

What does recent mean?

noun: approximately the last 10,000 years.

Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.

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RECENT is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.

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What does RECENT mean?

RECENT is a noun. It means: approximately the last 10,000 years.

Is RECENT a valid word?

Yes, RECENT is a valid word. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends.

Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.