Hidden inside regive sit grieve and regive, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grieve and regive tie for the highest Scrabble score from regive at 10 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in regive: one comes from rearranging its letters, and regive 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 grieve and regive, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regive. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are giver, vegie, and verge, 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 regive produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever and give. For points, the strongest play is give — 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 regive turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, gee, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regive. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gi, 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 regive 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.
regive 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.
regive is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grieve and regive, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regive 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 regive produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.