lanthanum needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 122 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lanthanum is the highest-scoring word from lanthanum, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 122 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in lanthanum — and it is lanthanum itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lanthanum produces 2 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 hanuman and manhunt, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lanthanum turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with annual. For points, the strongest plays are hamaul, mahant, maltha, and numnah — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lanthanum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with haunt and human. For points, the strongest plays are almah, halma, hamal, haulm, human, mahua, and mutha — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lanthanum produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, hunt, math, than, and tuna. For points, the strongest plays are amah, halm, and math — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lanthanum turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha, ant, ham, hat, man, and nah. For points, the strongest plays are ham and hum — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lanthanum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, an, at, ha, hm, and uh. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in lanthanum plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lanthanum 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.
lanthanum 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for lanthanum. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
lanthanum is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lanthanum unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lanthanum, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lanthanum 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 lanthanum produce 122 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.