Hidden inside regents sit gerents and regents, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gerents and regents tie for the highest Scrabble score from regents at 8 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in regents: one comes from rearranging its letters, and regents itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gerents and regents, 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 regents turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, greets, resent, and tenser. For points, the strongest plays are egrets, genets, genres, gentes, gerent, greens, greets, regent, and tenges — 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, genes, green, greet, rents, steer, and teens. For points, the strongest plays are egers, egest, egret, geest, genes, genet, genre, gents, geste, green, grees, greet, reges, serge, and tenge — 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 regents produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, gets, nest, nets, rent, rest, and seen. For points, the strongest plays are eger, engs, ergs, gees, gene, gens, gent, gest, gets, gree, negs, regs, and tegs — 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 regents turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, net, see, set, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are eng, erg, gee, gen, get, neg, reg, seg, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regents. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are en, er, es, et, ne, re, and te, each worth 2 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 regents and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
regents 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 regents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
regents is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gerents and regents, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regents 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 regents produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.