regulators needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 754 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regulators is the highest-scoring word from regulators, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 754 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in regulators — and it is regulators itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regulators turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outglares, regulator, and surrogate, 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 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outrages. For points, the strongest plays are garrotes, gestural, gloaters, grouters, legators, outglare, outrages, and regulars — 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 regulators produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with largest, outrage, regular, and storage. For points, the strongest plays are aerugos, arguers, galores, gaolers, garotes, garrets, garrote, garters, gelatos, gloater, graters, grouser, grouter, largest, legator, legatos, orgeats, outages, outrage, ragouts, regular, rugolas, rugrats, storage, sugarer, tegular, toerags, and turgors — 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 regulators turns up 135 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, argues, arrest, larger, rarest, and result. For points, the strongest plays are aerugo, aglets, algors, argles, argols, argots, arguer, argues, augers, ergots, erugos, galore, gaoler, garote, garret, garter, gaster, gaters, gators, gaults, gelato, glares, gloats, glouts, gluers, glutes, gorals, grater, grates, greats, groats, grouse, grouts, gruels, gulars, lagers, larger, larges, largos, legato, lugers, oglers, orgeat, outage, outgas, ragers, ragout, reorgs, retags, rogers, rogues, rouges, rugate, rugola, rugosa, rugose, rugrat, sauger, stager, surger, targes, teguas, tegula, tergal, toerag, togues, tragus, turgor, 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 210 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, argue, autos, roast, roles, and route. For points, the strongest plays are agers, aglet, aglus, agros, agues, algor, argle, argol, argot, argue, argus, auger, roger, rogue, rouge, rugae, rugal, sager, sarge, sargo, stage, sugar, surge, targe, tegua, tegus, terga, ergot, erugo, gales, gaols, gater, gates, gator, gault, gaurs, gears, gelts, getas, glare, gloat, glost, glout, gluer, glues, glute, gluts, goals, goats, goers, goest, goral, gores, gorse, gouts, grate, great, groat, grots, grout, gruel, grues, guars, guest, gular, gules, gusto, lager, large, largo, loges, luger, luges, ogler, ogles, ogres, rager, rages, regal, reorg, retag, togae, togas, togue, trogs, trugs, 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 regulators produces 219 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, also, arts, auto, last, late, and legs. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, aglu, agro, ague, areg, lags, legs, loge, logs, luge, lugs, ogle, ogre, orgs, rage, rags, regs, ruga, rugs, sage, sago, sego, slag, slog, slug, stag, tags, tegs, tegu, toga, togs, trog, trug, tugs, urge, egal, egos, ergo, ergs, gaes, gale, gals, gaol, gars, gast, gate, gats, gaur, gear, gels, gelt, gest, geta, gets, glue, glut, goal, goas, goat, goer, goes, gore, gout, grat, grot, grue, guar, guls, gust, and guts — 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 regulators turns up 104 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, ags, ego, erg, gae, gal, gar, gas, gat, gel, get, goa, gor, gos, got, grr, gul, gut, lag, leg, log, lug, org, rag, reg, rug, sag, seg, 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, or, so, to, and us. 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.
regulators 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 regulators. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
regulators is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regulators unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is regulators, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from regulators 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 regulators produce 754 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 135 six-letter words, 210 five-letter words, 219 four-letter words, 104 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.