broadsword needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
broadsword is the highest-scoring word from broadsword, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in broadsword — and it is broadsword itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in broadsword produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with borrows. For points, the strongest plays are barrows and borrows — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling broadsword turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boards and borrow. For points, the strongest plays are barrow and borrow — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadsword. If a familiar word is all you need, start with board, broad and doors. For points, the strongest play is bawds — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in broadsword produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, bars and boos. For points, the strongest play is bawd — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling broadsword turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads and bad. For points, the strongest plays are bow and wab — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broadsword. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and aw. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in broadsword plus one additional letter.
broadsword 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 one sense for broadsword. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
broadsword is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing broadsword unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is broadsword, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from broadsword 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 broadsword produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.