What REGRESS Means
- verb: go back to a statistical means
- verb: go back to a previous state“We reverted to the old rules”
- noun: the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
- noun: returning to a former state
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
REGRESS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 E1 G2 R1 E1 S1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 58 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of REGRESS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In REGRESS
55 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (5)
5 letter words (14)
4 letter words (19)
3 letter words (13)
2 letter words (4)
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