Hidden inside broadest sit broadest and broasted, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 448 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
broadest and broasted tie for the highest Scrabble score from broadest at 11 points. The top 10 of 448 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in broadest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and broadest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with broadest. For points, the strongest plays are broadest and broasted — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in broadest produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborted. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including aborted, boasted and borated.
Unscrambling broadest turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, adores and barest. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including beards, boards and breads.
There are 121 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, adore and based. For points, 26 words tie at 8 points, including based, beard and board.
Rearranging the letters in broadest produces 149 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, bade and bare. For points, 16 words tie at 7 points, including bade, beds and bred.
Unscrambling broadest turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and art. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including bad, bed and bod.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in broadest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in broadest 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.
broadest 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
broadest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing broadest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are broadest and broasted, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from broadest 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 broadest produce 448 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 121 five-letter words, 149 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.