Hidden inside regelates sit eglateres, regelates, and relegates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 375 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eglateres, regelates, and relegates tie for the highest Scrabble score from regelates at 10 points. The top 10 of 375 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in regelates: two come from rearranging its letters, and regelates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eglateres, regelates, and relegates, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regelates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eagerest, eglatere, etageres and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in regelates produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with largest, relates, and release. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including largest, eaglets and ergates.
Unscrambling regelates turns up 63 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, alerts and alters. For points, 33 words tie at 7 points, including agrees, grease and greets.
There are 104 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regelates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, alert and alter. For points, 43 words tie at 6 points, including agree, gates and geese.
Rearranging the letters in regelates produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arts and ears. For points, 34 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gals and gate.
Unscrambling regelates turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and art. For points, 19 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and gas.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regelates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in regelates 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.
regelates 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.
regelates is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regelates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eglateres, regelates, and relegates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regelates 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 regelates produce 375 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 63 six-letter words, 104 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.