Hidden inside regiment sit metering and regiment, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metering and regiment tie for the highest Scrabble score from regiment at 11 points. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in regiment: one comes from rearranging its letters, and regiment itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are metering and regiment, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in regiment produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meeting. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including meeting, metring and regimen.
Unscrambling regiment turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entire. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including emigre, germen and meting.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regiment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, green and greet. For points, the strongest plays are emerg, grime, and merge — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in regiment produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, germ and item. For points, the strongest plays are germ and grim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regiment turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get and men. For points, the strongest plays are gem, meg, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regiment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in regiment plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in regiment and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
regiment 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 four senses for regiment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
regiment is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regiment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are metering and regiment, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regiment 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 regiment produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.