Hidden inside regulation sit regulation and urogenital, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 875 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regulation and urogenital tie for the highest Scrabble score from regulation at 11 points. The top 10 of 875 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in regulation: one comes from rearranging its letters, and regulation itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are regulation and urogenital, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regulation turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aureoling, granulite, neuroglia, and trialogue, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altering, relating, relation, and triangle. For points, 16 words tie at 9 points, including altering, relating and triangle.
Rearranging the letters in regulation produces 77 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outrage, routine, tearing, and urinate. For points, 51 words tie at 8 points, including outrage, tearing and aligner.
Unscrambling regulation turns up 165 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, guinea and guitar. For points, 104 words tie at 7 points, including eating, guinea and guitar.
There are 217 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alert and alien. For points, 107 words tie at 6 points, including agent, along and angel.
Rearranging the letters in regulation produces 231 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto and lane. For points, 77 words tie at 5 points, including long, lung and rage.
Unscrambling regulation turns up 123 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and air. For points, 40 words tie at 4 points, including age, ago and ego.
There are 33 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in regulation plus one additional letter.
regulation 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for regulation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
regulation is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regulation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are regulation and urogenital, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regulation 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 regulation produce 875 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 23 eight-letter words, 77 seven-letter words, 165 six-letter words, 217 five-letter words, 231 four-letter words, 123 three-letter words and 33 two-letter words.