regret needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 22 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regret is the highest-scoring word from regret, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 22 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in regret — and it is regret itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regret. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greet. For points, the strongest plays are egret and greet — 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 regret produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tree. For points, the strongest plays are eger and gree — 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 regret turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee and get. For points, the strongest plays are erg, gee, get, grr, reg, and teg — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regret. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are er, et, re, and te, 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 regret 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.
regret 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 five senses for regret. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
regret is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regret unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is regret, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from regret 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 regret produce 22 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.