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REGRESSING

10 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What REGRESSING Means

REGRESSING is a form of REGRESS, which means:

  1. verb: go back to a statistical means
  2. verb: go back to a previous state“We reverted to the old rules”
  3. noun: the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
  4. noun: returning to a former state

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

REGRESSING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 E1 G2 R1 E1 S1 S1 I1 N1 G2.

Anagrams of REGRESSING (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In REGRESSING

296 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.

9 letter words (4)

8 letter words (7)

7 letter words (32)

6 letter words (57)

5 letter words (72)

4 letter words (72)

3 letter words (42)

2 letter words (10)

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