regressive needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regressive is the highest-scoring word from regressive, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in regressive — and it is regressive itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regressive produces exactly one nine-letter word: serveries. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regressive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reserves and reverses. For points, the strongest play is grievers — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in regressive produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reserve, reverse, and severer. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including griever, grieves and regives.
Unscrambling regressive turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rivers, series, serves, and severe. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including givers, grieve and regive.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regressive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with geese, gives and rises. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including gives, giver and veges.
Rearranging the letters in regressive produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, eves and give. For points, the strongest plays are give and vigs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regressive turns up 31 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.
regressive 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 two senses for regressive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
regressive is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regressive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is regressive, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from regressive 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 regressive produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.