regulate needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regulate is the highest-scoring word from regulate, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in regulate — and it is regulate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in regulate produces 3 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 leaguer, tegulae, 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 regulate turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with league and relate. For points, the strongest plays are eaglet, ergate, galere, gelate, league, legate, regale, reglet, reglue, rugate, tegula, telega, and tergal — 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 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, alert, alter, argue, great, greet, and large. For points, the strongest plays are aglee, aglet, agree, argle, argue, auger, eager, eagle, eagre, egret, gater, gault, glare, gleet, gluer, glute, grate, great, greet, gruel, gular, lager, large, leger, luger, ragee, regal, retag, rugae, rugal, targe, tegua, and terga — 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 regulate produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gate, glue, late, lure, rage, rate, and real. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, aglu, ague, areg, egal, eger, gale, gate, gaur, gear, gelt, geta, glee, glue, glut, grat, gree, grue, guar, luge, rage, ruga, tegu, 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 regulate turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are age, erg, gae, gal, gar, gat, gee, gel, get, gul, gut, lag, leg, lug, rag, reg, rug, tag, teg, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regulate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in regulate 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.
regulate 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 regulate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
regulate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regulate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is regulate, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from regulate 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 regulate produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.