lithium needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lithium is the highest-scoring word from lithium, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in lithium — and it is lithium itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lithium produces 4 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hili and hilt, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lithium turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, hit, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are him and hum — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in lithium plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lithium 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.
lithium 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 2-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 lithium. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
lithium is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lithium unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lithium, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lithium 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 lithium produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.