Hidden inside regisseur sit regisseur and surgeries, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regisseur and surgeries tie for the highest Scrabble score from regisseur at 10 points. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in regisseur: one comes from rearranging its letters, and regisseur itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with surgeries. For points, the strongest plays are regisseur and surgeries — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regisseur. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is resurges, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in regisseur produces 11 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 guesser, gurries, regress and 3 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling regisseur turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with series. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including egises, egress and guises.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in regisseur. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guess, issue and rises. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including guess, urges and egers.
Rearranging the letters in regisseur produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rigs, rise and rugs. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including rigs, rugs and urge.
Unscrambling regisseur turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, rig and rug. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including gee, rig and rug.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in regisseur plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in regisseur 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.
regisseur 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
regisseur is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing regisseur unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are regisseur and surgeries, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from regisseur 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 regisseur produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.