Hidden inside sulus sit lusus and sulus, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 7 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lusus and sulus tie for the highest Scrabble score from sulus at 5 points. The top 7 of 7 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in sulus: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sulus itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lusus and sulus, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sulus produces 2 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 sulu and ulus, each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sulus turns up 2 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sus and ulu, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling sulus produces exactly one two-letter word: us. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 2 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in sulus and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
sulus 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
sulus is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sulus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lusus and sulus, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sulus 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 sulus produce 7 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 2 four-letter words, 2 three-letter words and 1 two-letter word.