How many points in Scrabble is regretfully worth? regretfully how many points in Words With Friends? What does regretfully mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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Is regretfully a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word regretfully is a Scrabble US word. The word regretfully is worth 18 points in Scrabble:
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Is regretfully a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word regretfully is a Scrabble UK word and has 18 points:
R1E1G2R1E1T1F4U1L1L1Y4
Is regretfully a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word regretfully is a Words With Friends word. The word regretfully is worth 21 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
R1E1G3R1E1T1F4U2L2L2Y3
You can make 304 words from regretfully according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
regretful + -ly
regretfully (comparative more regretfully, superlative most regretfully)
In careful usage, regretfully means with regret (in a manner expressed with regret, expressing remorse), while regrettably means deserving regret (sadly, unfortunately), and in the body of sentences this distinction is observed: John regretfully asked for forgiveness, not *John regrettably asked for forgiveness, and The weather was regrettably terrible, not *The weather was regretfully terrible. These terms are occasionally conflated, a practice noted and decried since Fowler 1926 (in the forms regretful and regrettable).
However, in use as a sentence adverb, these are sometimes used interchangeably to mean “unfortunately”, a practice noted since the 1960s in the United States, as in: Regrettably, it is raining or Regretfully, it is raining, the latter being proscribed by some. This is similar to and possibly influenced by the use of hopefully, which predates this usage of regretfully, and is both far more popular than regretfully and has no precise equivalent, *hopeably not existing.