Hidden inside regelating sit regelating and relegating, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 554 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regelating and relegating tie for the highest Scrabble score from regelating at 12 points. The top 10 of 554 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in regelating: one comes from rearranging its letters, and regelating itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are regelating and relegating, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regelating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreeing, altering and greeting. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including agreeing, greeting and ganglier.
Rearranging the letters in regelating produces 63 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elegant, eternal and general. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including argling, eagling and engager.
Unscrambling regelating turns up 109 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, engage and entire. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including engage, ageing and eggier.
There are 126 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regelating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aging and agree. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including aging, agger and aggie.
Rearranging the letters in regelating produces 127 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain and gang. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including gang, gage and giga.
Unscrambling regelating turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ant. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gag, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regelating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
regelating 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
regelating is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regelating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are regelating and relegating, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regelating 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 regelating produce 554 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 25 eight-letter words, 63 seven-letter words, 109 six-letter words, 126 five-letter words, 127 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.