Hidden inside relegating sit regelating and relegating, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 554 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regelating and relegating tie for the highest Scrabble score from relegating at 12 points. The top 10 of 554 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in relegating: one comes from rearranging its letters, and relegating 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 regelating and relegating, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relegating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreeing, altering, greeting, relating, and triangle. For points, the strongest plays are agreeing, ganglier, gelating, gleeting, greeting, lagering, legating, and regaling — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in relegating produces 63 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elegant, eternal, general, gentler, and tearing. For points, the strongest plays are argling, eagling, engager, gangrel, gateleg, gearing, glaring, grating, greeing, laggier, leggier, naggier, neglige, and niggler — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling relegating turns up 109 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, engage, entire, gentle, neater, rating, and relate. For points, the strongest plays are ageing, eggier, engage, gaeing, galing, ganger, gangle, garget, gargle, gating, geeing, giglet, gingal, ginger, grange, greige, lagger, leggin, nagger, niggle, raggee, raggle, raging, reggae, and tagger — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 126 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relegating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aging, agree, alert, alien, alter, and angel. For points, the strongest plays are agger, aggie, aging, eggar, egger, and gager — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in relegating produces 127 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, gang, gate, gene, girl, and lane. For points, the strongest plays are gage, gang, giga, gleg, grig, ragg, and tegg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling relegating turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gag, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relegating. 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.
relegating 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 relegating. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
relegating is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relegating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are regelating and relegating, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relegating 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 relegating produce 554 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 25 eight-letter words, 63 seven-letter words, 109 six-letter words, 126 five-letter words, 127 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.