Hidden inside broth sit broth and throb, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
broth and throb tie for the highest Scrabble score from broth at 10 points. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in broth: one comes from rearranging its letters, and broth itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are broth and throb, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in broth and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
broth 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 broth carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for broth. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
broth is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing broth unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are broth and throb, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from broth 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 broth produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.