Hidden inside regard sit garred, grader, and regard, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
garred, grader, and regard tie for the highest Scrabble score from regard at 8 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in regard: two come from rearranging its letters, and regard itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grader and regard. For points, the strongest plays are garred, grader, and regard — 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grade. For points, the strongest plays are grade and raged — 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 regard produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, dear, drag, rage, rare, and read. For points, the strongest plays are aged, drag, dreg, egad, gaed, and grad — 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 regard turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, rag, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dag, gad, and ged — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, and ed — each 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 regard 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.
regard 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record ten senses for regard. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
regard is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regard unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are garred, grader, and regard, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regard 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 regard produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.