Hidden inside broadsides sit broadsides and sideboards, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 563 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
broadsides and sideboards tie for the highest Scrabble score from broadsides at 14 points. The top 10 of 563 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in broadsides: one comes from rearranging its letters, and broadsides itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are broadsides and sideboards, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling broadsides turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are broadside and sideboard, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadsides. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adsorbed, deboards, disrobed, and roadbeds, 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 broadsides produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with address and boarded. For points, the strongest plays are baddies, bidders, boarded, braided, deboard, and roadbed — 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 broadsides turns up 98 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adored, adores, beards, boards, bodies, breads, and brides. For points, the strongest plays are abided, aboded, badder, baddie, barded, bedrid, bidder, birded, and bodied — 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 155 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadsides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, aired, aside, based, bases, basis, and beard. For points, the strongest plays are bedad, bided, and boded — 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 broadsides produces 149 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, aids, airs, bade, bare, bars, and base. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bads, bard, bead, beds, bide, bids, bird, bode, bods, brad, bred, dabs, darb, debs, dibs, dobe, drab, and drib — 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 broadsides turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads, aid, air, are, ass, and bad. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bid, bod, dab, deb, and dib — 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadsides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, be, do, id, is, and or. 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.
broadsides 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 seven senses for broadsides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
broadsides is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing broadsides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are broadsides and sideboards, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from broadsides 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 broadsides produce 563 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 98 six-letter words, 155 five-letter words, 149 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.