Hidden inside regale sit galere and regale, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
galere and regale tie for the highest Scrabble score from regale at 7 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in regale: one comes from rearranging its letters, and regale itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are galere and regale, 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regale. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree and large. For points, the strongest plays are aglee, agree, argle, eager, eagle, eagre, glare, lager, large, leger, ragee, and regal — 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 regale produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rage and real. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, areg, egal, eger, gale, gear, glee, gree, and rage — 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 regale turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, gal, gee, and leg. For points, the strongest plays are age, erg, gae, gal, gar, gee, gel, lag, leg, rag, and reg — 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 regale. 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 regale and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
regale 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 regale. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
regale is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regale unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are galere and regale, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regale 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 regale produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.