regulator needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 287 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regulator is the highest-scoring word from regulator, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 287 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in regulator — and it is regulator itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regulator produces exactly one eight-letter word: outglare. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in regulator produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outrage and regular. For points, the strongest plays are garrote, gloater, grouter, legator, outrage, regular, and tegular — 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 regulator turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with larger. For points, the strongest plays are aerugo, arguer, galore, gaoler, garote, garret, garter, gelato, grater, larger, legato, orgeat, outage, ragout, rugate, rugola, rugrat, tegula, tergal, toerag, and turgor — 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 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, argue, great, large, later, and outer. For points, the strongest plays are aglet, algor, argle, argol, argot, argue, auger, ergot, erugo, gater, gator, gault, glare, gloat, glout, gluer, glute, goral, grate, great, groat, grout, gruel, gular, lager, large, largo, luger, ogler, rager, regal, reorg, retag, roger, rogue, rouge, rugae, rugal, targe, tegua, terga, togae, togue, and urger — 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 regulator produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, gate, glue, goal, goat, late, and lure. For points, the strongest plays are ager, aglu, agro, ague, areg, egal, ergo, gale, gaol, gate, gaur, gear, gelt, geta, glue, glut, goal, goat, goer, gore, gout, grat, grot, grue, guar, loge, luge, ogle, ogre, rage, ruga, tegu, toga, trog, trug, 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 regulator turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ego, erg, gae, gal, gar, gat, gel, get, goa, gor, got, grr, gul, gut, lag, leg, log, lug, org, rag, reg, rug, tag, teg, tog, and tug — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, go, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in regulator plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in regulator and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
regulator 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 three senses for regulator. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
regulator is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regulator unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is regulator, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from regulator 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 regulator produce 287 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.