Hidden inside sodium sit odiums and sodium, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble MODISU, DIOUSM or MUSIDO and you get the same 6 letters as SODIUM: so the words from SODIUM listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
odiums and sodium tie for the highest Scrabble score from sodium at 9 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in sodium: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sodium itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are odiums and sodium, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sodium. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are doums, duomi, misdo and 2 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sodium produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with muds. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including muds, dims and doms.
Unscrambling sodium turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ids and mud. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including mud, dim and dom.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sodium. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and is. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including um, mi and mo.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in sodium plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sodium and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
sodium 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 sodium. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
sodium is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sodium unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are odiums and sodium, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sodium 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 sodium produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.