Hidden inside regrinds sit grinders and regrinds, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 182 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grinders and regrinds tie for the highest Scrabble score from regrinds at 10 points. The top 10 of 182 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in regrinds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and regrinds itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are grinders and regrinds, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in regrinds produces 6 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 dingers, engirds, girders and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regrinds turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with design, diners and grinds. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including design, grinds and signed.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regrinds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, dines and drier. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including grind, deign and dinge.
Rearranging the letters in regrinds produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, digs and dine. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including digs, ding and dreg.
Unscrambling regrinds turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and end. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regrinds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in regrinds plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in regrinds and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
regrinds 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.
regrinds is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regrinds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grinders and regrinds, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regrinds 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 regrinds produce 182 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.