regulars needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 206 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regulars is the highest-scoring word from regulars, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 206 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in regulars — and it is regulars itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in regulars produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with regular. For points, the strongest plays are arguers, regular, and sugarer — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling regulars turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argues and larger. For points, the strongest plays are argles, arguer, argues, augers, glares, gluers, gruels, gulars, lagers, larger, larges, lugers, ragers, sauger, surger, and urgers — 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 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argue, glues, large, laser, lures, rages, and rules. For points, the strongest plays are agers, aglus, agues, argle, argue, argus, auger, gales, gaurs, gears, glare, gluer, glues, gruel, grues, guars, gular, gules, lager, large, luger, luges, rager, rages, regal, rugae, rugal, sager, sarge, sugar, surge, urger, urges, and usage — 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 regulars produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ears, eras, gals, glue, legs, and lure. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, aglu, ague, areg, egal, ergs, gaes, gale, gals, gars, gaur, gear, gels, glue, grue, guar, guls, lags, legs, luge, lugs, rage, rags, regs, ruga, rugs, sage, slag, slug, and urge — 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 regulars turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, gal, gas, and leg. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gal, gar, gas, gel, grr, gul, lag, leg, lug, rag, reg, rug, sag, and seg — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and us. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 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 regulars 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.
regulars 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 seventeen senses for regulars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
regulars is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regulars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is regulars, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from regulars 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 regulars produce 206 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.