regular needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regular is the highest-scoring word from regular, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in regular — and it is regular itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regular turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with larger. For points, the strongest plays are arguer and larger — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regular. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argue and large. For points, the strongest plays are argle, argue, auger, glare, gluer, gruel, gular, lager, large, luger, rager, regal, rugae, rugal, and urger — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in regular produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glue, lure, rage, rare, real, rule, and urge. For points, the strongest plays are ager, aglu, ague, areg, egal, gale, gaur, gear, glue, grue, guar, luge, rage, ruga, and urge — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling regular turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, gal, leg, and rag. For points, the strongest plays are age, erg, gae, gal, gar, gel, grr, gul, lag, leg, lug, rag, reg, and rug — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regular. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ag, worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in regular and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
regular is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seventeen senses for regular. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
regular is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regular unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is regular, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from regular earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in regular produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.