regretful needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regretful is the highest-scoring word from regretful, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in regretful — and it is regretful itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in regretful produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ferrule and refuter, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regretful turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with regret. For points, the strongest play is refuge — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regretful. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flute, freer and greet. For points, the strongest play is fugle — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in regretful produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feel, feet and felt. For points, the strongest plays are frug and gulf — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regretful turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee and flu. For points, the strongest play is fug — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regretful. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef and fe, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in regretful and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
regretful 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for regretful. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
regretful is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regretful unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is regretful, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from regretful 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 regretful produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.