limulus needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
limulus is the highest-scoring word from limulus, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in limulus — and it is limulus itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in limulus. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mills and mulls, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in limulus produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slim. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including slim, lums and mill.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in limulus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in limulus and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
limulus 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 5-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 limulus. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
limulus is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing limulus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is limulus, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from limulus 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 limulus produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.