tellurium needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tellurium is the highest-scoring word from tellurium, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tellurium — and it is tellurium itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tellurium produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mullite and multure, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tellurium turns up 16 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are illume, iterum, luteum and 9 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tellurium. If a familiar word is all you need, start with uteri. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including ileum, lemur and merit.
Rearranging the letters in tellurium produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, lure and melt. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including item, melt and mile.
Unscrambling tellurium turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, let and lie. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including met, rum and elm.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tellurium. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it, me, and um. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and em.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in tellurium plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tellurium and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
tellurium 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 tellurium. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tellurium is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tellurium unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tellurium, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tellurium 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 tellurium produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.