broadening needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 564 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
broadening is the highest-scoring word from broadening, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 564 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in broadening — and it is broadening itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boarding. For points, the strongest plays are bearding, boarding, branding, breading, and deboning — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in broadening produces 49 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adoring, bearing, bending, bonding, earning, ignored, and reading. For points, the strongest plays are aboding, abridge, banding, barding, beading, bending, boinged, bondage, bonding, brigade, brigand, and dogbane — each 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 broadening turns up 91 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with banged, banned, banner, boring, bridge, danger, and daring. For points, the strongest plays are badger, bandog, banged, barged, begird, binged, bodega, boding, bonged, bridge, and garbed — 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 123 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, aired, anger, badge, beard, began, and begin. For points, the strongest plays are badge, begad, debag, and gibed — 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 broadening produces 151 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, bade, band, bang, bare, barn, and bean. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, band, bang, bard, bead, bend, berg, bide, bind, bing, biog, bird, bode, bond, bong, brad, brag, bred, brig, darb, dobe, drab, drib, garb, gibe, and grab — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling broadening turns up 106 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, aid, air, and, are, and bad. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bag, bed, beg, bid, big, bod, bog, dab, deb, dib, gab, gib, and gob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, be, do, go, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, bi, 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.
broadening 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for broadening. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
broadening is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing broadening unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is broadening, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from broadening 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 broadening produce 564 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 13 eight-letter words, 49 seven-letter words, 91 six-letter words, 123 five-letter words, 151 four-letter words, 106 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.