broadly needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
broadly is the highest-scoring word from broadly, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in broadly — and it is broadly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling broadly turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boyard, byroad, and drably, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with badly, board, broad, and labor. For points, the strongest plays are badly and baldy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in broadly produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bald, body, bold, lady, load, lord, and oral. For points, the strongest plays are body and doby — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling broadly turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bad, bar, bay, boy, bra, day, and dry. For points, the strongest plays are aby, bay, boy, and yob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ay, by, do, or, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in broadly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in broadly and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
broadly 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for broadly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
broadly is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing broadly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is broadly, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from broadly 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 broadly produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.