brother needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble THREBOR, HOBRERT or RORTHEB and you get the same 7 letters as BROTHER: so the words from BROTHER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
brother is the highest-scoring word from brother, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in brother — and it is brother itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in brother. If a familiar word is all you need, start with other. For points, the strongest plays are berth, broth, and throb — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in brother produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bore, both and hero. For points, the strongest plays are beth, both, and herb — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling brother turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, her and hot. For points, the strongest play is hob — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in brother. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, eh and he. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in brother plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in brother 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.
brother 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in brother carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for brother. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
brother is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing brother unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is brother, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from brother 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 brother produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.