Hidden inside litharge sit litharge and thirlage, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 257 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
litharge and thirlage tie for the highest Scrabble score from litharge at 12 points. The top 10 of 257 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in litharge: one comes from rearranging its letters, and litharge itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are litharge and thirlage, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in litharge produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alright and lighter. For points, the strongest plays are alright, lighter, and relight — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling litharge turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gather. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including gather, alight and aright.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in litharge. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and earth. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including eight, light and right.
Rearranging the letters in litharge produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argh, gate and girl. For points, the strongest plays are argh and ghat — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling litharge turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and are. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in litharge. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at and eh. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
8 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in litharge plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in litharge and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
litharge 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
litharge is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing litharge unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are litharge and thirlage, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from litharge 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 litharge produce 257 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.