Hidden inside brocolis sit bicolors and brocolis, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bicolors and brocolis tie for the highest Scrabble score from brocolis at 12 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in brocolis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and brocolis 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 bicolors and brocolis, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in brocolis produces 2 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 bicolor and brocoli, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in brocolis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boils, color, cools, and cribs. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including cribs, blocs and boric.
Rearranging the letters in brocolis produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boil, boos and cool. For points, the strongest plays are bloc, cobs, and crib — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling brocolis turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo, oil and rib. For points, the strongest play is cob — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in brocolis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are bi and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in brocolis plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in brocolis 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.
brocolis 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
brocolis is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing brocolis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bicolors and brocolis, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from brocolis 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 brocolis produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.