regulative needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 445 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regulative is the highest-scoring word from regulative, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 445 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in regulative — and it is regulative itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regulative turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is virgulate, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulative. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relative. For points, the strongest plays are ergative and levigate — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in regulative produces 18 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 vegetal, veliger, virgate, virgule, and vulgate, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling regulative turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eviler, guitar, league, relate, reveal, ritual, and travel. For points, the strongest plays are glaive, gravel, greave, grieve, grivet, regave, regive, rivage, vagile, vaguer, virgae, and vulgar — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 122 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulative. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, alert, alive, alter, argue, grave, and great. For points, the strongest plays are gavel, giver, grave, vague, vegie, verge, and virga — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in regulative produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, evil, gate, gave, girl, give, and glue. For points, the strongest plays are gave, give, vagi, vega, and viga — 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 regulative turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are guv, veg, vig, and vug — 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 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulative. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
regulative 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 one sense for regulative. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
regulative is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regulative unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is regulative, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from regulative 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 regulative produce 445 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 122 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.