Hidden inside broadcasters sit broadcasters and rebroadcasts, twelve-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
broadcasters and rebroadcasts tie for the highest Scrabble score from broadcasters at 17 points. The top 10 of 1140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 twelve-letter words hiding in broadcasters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and broadcasters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these twelve-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are broadcasters and rebroadcasts, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eleven-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadcasters. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are broadcaster and rebroadcast, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in broadcasters produces 4 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is broadcasts, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling broadcasters turns up 18 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are broadcast and crossbred, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 55 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadcasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bastards, broadest, coasters, and creators. For points, the strongest plays are barcodes and brocades — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in broadcasters produces 136 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborted, actress, arrests, bastard, borders, breasts, and broader. For points, the strongest plays are barcode, bracted, and brocade — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling broadcasters turns up 245 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aboard, aborts, across, actors, adores, arrest, and barest. For points, the strongest play is braced — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 298 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadcasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, acted, actor, adore, areas, barer, and based. For points, the strongest plays are acerb, barca, brace, bract, caber, carbo, carbs, carob, cobra, crabs, scabs, 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 broadcasters produces 239 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, area, arts, bade, bare, bars, and base. 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 broadcasters turns up 115 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, are, art, ass, ate, and bad. 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadcasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, be, do, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, 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.
broadcasters 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 two senses for broadcasters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
broadcasters is one of two twelve-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing broadcasters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are broadcasters and rebroadcasts, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from broadcasters 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 broadcasters produce 1140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 twelve-letter words, 2 eleven-letter words, 4 ten-letter words, 18 nine-letter words, 55 eight-letter words, 136 seven-letter words, 245 six-letter words, 298 five-letter words, 239 four-letter words, 115 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.