regaining needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regaining is the highest-scoring word from regaining, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in regaining — and it is regaining itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regaining. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are angering, enraging, graining, and reigning, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in regaining produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning, gaining, raining, and ringing. For points, the strongest plays are gaining, gearing, girning, naggier, ranging, and ringing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling regaining turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airing. For points, the strongest plays are ageing, gaeing, ganger, gieing, ginger, grange, nagger, and raging — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regaining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, anger, genii, inner, and range. For points, the strongest plays are agger, aggie, aging, eggar, and gager — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in regaining produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, gang, near, nine, rage, and rain. For points, the strongest plays are gage, gang, giga, 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 regaining turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ear, egg, era, and gag. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gag, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regaining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in regaining plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in regaining 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.
regaining 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 4-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 regaining. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
regaining is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regaining unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is regaining, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from regaining 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 regaining produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.