thorium 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, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
thorium is the highest-scoring word from thorium, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in thorium — and it is thorium itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thorium. If a familiar word is all you need, start with humor, mouth, and tumor. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including humor, mouth and mirth.
Rearranging the letters in thorium produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hour, hurt and riot. For points, the strongest play is moth — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling thorium turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, hit and hot. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including him, hom and hum.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thorium. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, hm and ho. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in thorium plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in thorium 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.
thorium 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for thorium. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
thorium is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thorium unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is thorium, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from thorium 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 thorium produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.