Hidden inside broaden sit bandore and broaden, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DARBEON, DEBORNA or NODABER and you get the same 7 letters as BROADEN: so the words from BROADEN listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
bandore and broaden tie for the highest Scrabble score from broaden at 10 points. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in broaden: one comes from rearranging its letters, and broaden itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bandore and broaden, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling broaden turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bander, barned, bonder, and roband, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broaden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, beard and board. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including beard, board and bored.
Rearranging the letters in broaden produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, band and bare. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including bade, band and bend.
Unscrambling broaden turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are and bad. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including bad, bed and bod.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in broaden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in broaden plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in broaden 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.
broaden 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for broaden. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
broaden is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing broaden unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bandore and broaden, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from broaden 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 broaden produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.