Unscramble LUTETIUM and you have 82 words, LUTETIUM itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. 6 shorter words score 8, among them TUMULT, LUTEUM and MUTUEL. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from LUTETIUM split into 1 with 8 letters, 8 with 6, 6 with 5, 27 with 4, 28 with 3 and 12 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Combined: NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words 2024, WOW24 and Words With Friends together. Rude words are left out.
Trade one tile of LUTETIUM for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with LU · ending in UM · all 8-letter words
LUTETIUM first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LUTETIUM, and the Words With Friends list has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUTETIUM itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 82) | 67 | 81 | 64 |
* Lists: NWL2023, Collins CSW24, Words With Friends' own (changing) list.
14 of the 82 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: LUTITE, MUIL, MUTI, TITULE, MEU, UME, UMU, LUIT, TEIL, TELT, TITE, ELT and 2 more. 4 of the 82 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: MULIE, TUILE, TUM and TE. 1 of the 82 answers is missing from Scrabble US and Scrabble UK: MULTI.
With one more tile, the letters of LUTETIUM spell the words below.