Hidden inside reagent sit grantee, greaten, negater and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grantee, greaten, negater and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from reagent at 8 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in reagent: three come from rearranging its letters, and reagent itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are grantee, greaten, negater, and reagent, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reagent turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neater. For points, the strongest plays are argent, enrage, ergate, garnet, genera, gerent, negate, and regent — 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 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reagent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, agree, anger, eaten, enter, grant, and great. For points, the strongest plays are agene, agent, agree, anger, eager, eagre, egret, gater, genet, genre, grant, grate, great, green, greet, ragee, range, regna, retag, targe, tenge, and terga — 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 reagent produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gate, gene, near, neat, rage, and rang. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, areg, eger, gaen, gane, gate, gean, gear, gene, gent, geta, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, gree, rage, rang, and tang — 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 reagent turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are age, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gat, gee, gen, get, nag, neg, rag, reg, tag, and teg — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reagent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest play 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 reagent 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.
reagent 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for reagent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
reagent is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reagent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grantee, greaten, negater, and reagent, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reagent 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 reagent produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.