Hidden inside regent sit gerent and regent, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble EEGNRT, TENEGR or NEGTER and you get the same 6 letters as REGENT: so the words from REGENT listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
gerent and regent tie for the highest Scrabble score from regent at 7 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in regent: one comes from rearranging its letters, and regent itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gerent and regent, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, green, and greet. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including green, greet and egret.
Rearranging the letters in regent produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, rent, teen, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are eger, gene, gent, and gree — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regent turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, net, and ten. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including gee, get and eng.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regent. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are en, er, et and 3 more, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in regent 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.
regent 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 three senses for regent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
regent is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gerent and regent, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regent 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 regent produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.