broadcast needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 309 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
broadcast is the highest-scoring word from broadcast, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 309 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in broadcast — and it is broadcast itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling broadcast produces exactly one eight-letter word: acrobats. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in broadcast produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bastard. For points, the strongest play is acrobat — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling broadcast turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aboard, aborts, actors, boards, cobras, and scrota. For points, the strongest plays are barcas, bracts, carbos, carobs, cobras, and scarab — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadcast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, actor, board, boats, brats, broad, and cards. For points, the strongest plays are barca, bract, carbo, carbs, carob, cobra, crabs, and scrob — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in broadcast produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, bars, bats, boat, bras, and brat. For points, the strongest plays are cabs, carb, cobs, crab, and scab — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling broadcast turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, art, bad, bar, bat, and bra. For points, the strongest plays are cab and cob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadcast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, do, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in broadcast plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in broadcast 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.
broadcast 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 five senses for broadcast. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
broadcast is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing broadcast unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is broadcast, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from broadcast 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 broadcast produce 309 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.