Hidden inside regions sit eringos, ignores, regions and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 176 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eringos, ignores, regions and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from regions at 8 points. The top 10 of 176 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in regions: three come from rearranging its letters, and regions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignores and regions. For points, the strongest plays are eringos, ignores, regions, and signore — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regions turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins, ignore and orgies. For points, 19 words tie at 7 points, including groins, ignore and orgies.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, irons and noise. For points, 18 words tie at 6 points, including groin, rings and genro.
Rearranging the letters in regions produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, goes and gone. For points, 28 words tie at 5 points, including egos, goes and gone.
Unscrambling regions turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, nor and one. For points, 16 words tie at 4 points, including ego, rig and eng.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
16 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in regions plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in regions 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.
regions 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 five senses for regions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
regions is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eringos, ignores, regions, and signore, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regions 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 regions produce 176 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.