Hidden inside regarding sit regarding and regrading, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regarding and regrading tie for the highest Scrabble score from regarding at 12 points. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in regarding: one comes from rearranging its letters, and regarding itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with regarding. For points, the strongest plays are regarding and regrading — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling regarding produces exactly one eight-letter word: draggier. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in regarding produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angrier, earring, grading, grander, and reading. For points, the strongest plays are dragger, grading, and niggard — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling regarding turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with danger, daring, errand, gained, garden, grader, and nagged. For points, the strongest plays are dagger, digger, edging, ganged, nagged, ragged, and rigged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regarding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, aired, anger, diner, drain, drier, and grade. For points, the strongest plays are gaged and igged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in regarding produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, dear, dine, drag, earn, and gain. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dang, ding, drag, dreg, egad, gadi, gaed, gage, gang, gied, giga, gird, grad, grid, grig, and ragg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling regarding turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid, air, and, are, die, and dig. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, egg, gad, gag, ged, gid, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regarding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in regarding plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in regarding and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
regarding 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.
regarding is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regarding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are regarding and regrading, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regarding 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 regarding produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 22 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.