Hidden inside regelate sit eglatere, regelate, and relegate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eglatere, regelate, and relegate tie for the highest Scrabble score from regelate at 9 points. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in regelate: two come from rearranging its letters, and regelate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eglatere, regelate, and relegate, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in regelate produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are etagere and legatee, 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 regelate turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relate. For points, the strongest plays are eaglet, ergate, galere, gelate, legate, regale, reglet, telega, and tergal — 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 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regelate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, alert, alter, great, greet, large, and later. For points, the strongest plays are aglee, aglet, agree, argle, eager, eagle, eagre, egret, gater, gelee, glare, gleet, grate, great, greet, lager, large, leger, ragee, regal, retag, targe, and terga — 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 regelate produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gate, late, rage, rate, real, tale, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, areg, egal, eger, gale, gate, gear, gelt, geta, glee, grat, 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 regelate turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are age, erg, gae, gal, gar, gat, gee, gel, get, lag, leg, rag, reg, tag, and teg — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regelate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. 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 regelate and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
regelate 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.
regelate is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regelate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eglatere, regelate, and relegate, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regelate 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 regelate produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.