Hidden inside regress sit regress and sergers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 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.
regress and sergers tie for the highest Scrabble score from regress at 8 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in regress: one comes from rearranging its letters, and regress 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 regress and sergers, 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 regress turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are egress, serger, and serges, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regress. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are egers, grees, reges, and serge, 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 regress produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sees. For points, the strongest plays are eger, ergs, gees, gree, regs, and segs — 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 regress turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee and see. For points, the strongest plays are erg, gee, grr, reg, and seg — 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regress. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are er, es, and re, 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 regress 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.
regress 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for regress. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
regress is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regress unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are regress and sergers, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regress 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 regress produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.