Hidden inside regales sit galeres and regales, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 160 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
galeres and regales tie for the highest Scrabble score from regales at 8 points. The top 10 of 160 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in regales: one comes from rearranging its letters, and regales 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 galeres and regales, 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 regales turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees and grease. For points, the strongest plays are agrees, argles, eagers, eagles, eagres, galere, glares, grease, lagers, larges, legers, ragees, 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regales. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, erase, large, laser, lease, and rages. For points, the strongest plays are agers, aglee, agree, argle, eager, eagle, eagre, egers, gales, gears, glare, glees, grees, lager, large, leger, leges, ragee, rages, regal, reges, sager, sarge, and serge — 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 regales produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ears, ease, else, eras, gals, and legs. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, ages, areg, egal, eger, ergs, gaes, gale, gals, gars, gear, gees, gels, glee, gree, lags, legs, rage, rags, regs, sage, and slag — 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 regales turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, gal, gas, and gee. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gal, gar, gas, gee, gel, lag, leg, rag, reg, sag, and seg — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regales. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. 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 regales 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.
regales 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 regales. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
regales is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regales unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are galeres and regales, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regales 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 regales produce 160 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.