Hidden inside broadens sit bandores and broadens, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 399 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bandores and broadens tie for the highest Scrabble score from broadens at 11 points. The top 10 of 399 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in broadens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and broadens itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bandores and broadens, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in broadens produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are banders, bandore, bonders and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling broadens turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, beards and boards. For points, 21 words tie at 9 points, including beards, boards and brands.
There are 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, bands and barns. For points, 29 words tie at 8 points, including bands, based and beard.
Rearranging the letters in broadens produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, band and bans. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including bade, band and beds.
Unscrambling broadens turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and are. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including bad, bed and bod.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in broadens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in broadens and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
broadens 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 four senses for broadens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
broadens is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing broadens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bandores and broadens, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from broadens 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 broadens produce 399 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.