Hidden inside regnal sit angler and regnal, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
angler and regnal tie for the highest Scrabble score from regnal at 7 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in regnal: one comes from rearranging its letters, and regnal 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 angler and regnal, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regnal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angel, anger and angle. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including angel, anger and angle.
Rearranging the letters in regnal produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, lane and lean. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including rage, rang and ager.
Unscrambling regnal turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and ear. For points, 15 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and leg.
24 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in regnal plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in regnal 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.
regnal 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
regnal is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regnal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are angler and regnal, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regnal 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 regnal produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.