regrets needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regrets is the highest-scoring word from regrets, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in regrets — and it is regrets itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regrets turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greets and regret. For points, the strongest plays are egrets, greets, regret, and serger — 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regrets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greet, steer, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are egers, egest, egret, geest, geste, grees, greet, 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 regrets produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, rest, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are eger, ergs, gees, gest, gets, gree, regs, and tegs — 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 regrets turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are erg, gee, get, grr, reg, seg, 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regrets. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are er, es, 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 regrets 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.
regrets 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 one sense for regrets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
regrets is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regrets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is regrets, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from regrets 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 regrets produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.