regulating needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 616 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regulating is the highest-scoring word from regulating, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 616 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in regulating — and it is regulating itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regulating produces exactly one nine-letter word: granulite. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altering, relating, and triangle. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including ganglier, gelating and grueling.
Rearranging the letters in regulating produces 55 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arguing, tearing, and urinate. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including arguing, argling and eagling.
Unscrambling regulating turns up 126 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, guinea and guitar. For points, 31 words tie at 8 points, including ageing, gaeing and galing.
There are 138 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aging and alert. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including aging, agger and aggie.
Rearranging the letters in regulating produces 157 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, earn and gain. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including gang, gage and giga.
Unscrambling regulating turns up 95 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ant. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gag, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
regulating 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 5-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 regulating. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
regulating is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regulating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is regulating, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from regulating 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 regulating produce 616 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 18 eight-letter words, 55 seven-letter words, 126 six-letter words, 138 five-letter words, 157 four-letter words, 95 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.