3 points - B, C, M, P.
All Scrabble players know that Q and Z are the highest scoring tiles. You can get 10 points for each, in the English language version of the game. But according to one American researcher, Z really only deserves six points. And it's not just Z that's under fire.
New technologies can 'improve' a classic design, but Scrabble aficionados aren't having a bar of it. It's the only letter of that value – below it there's F, H, V, W and Y on four points, and the next highest value is eight (J and X).
Each word is worth the cumulative amount points of the letters in the word. There are 100 tiles in the English version of the game, and each is worth between zero and 10 points.
caziques, 392 points
As of now, the highest-scoring word ever played in an actual game of Scrabble is caziques.
Let's jump right in: the highest-scoring legal Scrabble word is OXYPHENBUTAZONE. With all the bonuses bonused and tiles totaled, that sucker — an obsolete anti-inflammatory medication, evidently — will net you 1,778 points.
Bingo is a term used in North American Scrabble for a play in which a player puts seven tiles on the board in a single turn. Mattel, the game's manufacturer outside North America, uses the term bonus to describe such a word. In French, it is called a scrabble. A player who does this receives 50-point bonus.
(1 point)-A, E, I, O, U, L, N, S, T, R. (2 points)-D, G. (3 points)-B, C, M, P. (4 points)-F, H, V, W, Y.
1 point - A, E, I, O, U, L, N, S, T, R. 2 points - D, G. 3 points - B, C, M, P. 4 points - F, H, V, W, Y.
ZA is the most played word containing the letter Z (and the only playable two-letter word with the letter Z) in tournament SCRABBLE play.
Ew joins another 106 two-letter words, which are aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax, ay, ba, be, bi, bo, by, da, de, do, ed, ef, eh, el, em, en, er, es, et, ex, fa, fe, gi, go, ha, he, hi, hm, ho, id, if, in, is, it, jo, ka, ki, la, li, lo, ma, me, mi, mm, mo, mu, my, na, ne, no, nu, od, oe, of, ...
1 point: E ×13, A ×12, I ×8, R ×8, S ×8, N ×6, O ×5, T ×5, L ×4, U ×4. 2 points: C ×3, D ×3, M ×3. 3 points: B ×2, G ×2, P ×2. 4 points: F ×1, V ×1.
There are many different types of consonants in Scrabble. Some consonants are worth 1 point, just like the vowels.
geico is not a valid Scrabble word.
Though it's annoying that you cannot play such a clever word as IQ in Scrabble, there are plenty of uses for that pair of letters.
You might be aware that in Scrabble, if you manage to use all seven of your tiles in one play, it earns you a bonus of 50 points. That's called a "bingo," in Scrabble lingo.
Double Letter Score and Triple Letter Score (DLS, TLS) - a letter on this space is doubled or tripled in its point value. Double Word Score and Triple Word Score (DWS, TWS) - if any letter touches this space, the entire word is doubled in point value.
Although it has never been played, in theory, the highest scoring word in Scrabble is OXYPHENBUTAZONE, an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat arthritis. Ohioan Dan Stock has discovered that this word can score 1785 points if 8 of its letters are already placed between three triples.
The letter 'X' provides the highest scoring two-letter words, with at least 9 points awarded for the Greek letter names 'Ax', 'Ex', 'Ox', 'Xi' and the Vietnamese coin 'Xu'; whilst with 'Zax' (a hatchet-like tool) attaining a minimum of 19 points, it also gives you the highest scoring three-letter word.
JO: Common as a nickname, the word Jo is an 11-point word when played in a Scrabble game. ZU: Zu is a word that is derived from Akkadian mythology and scores 10 points. ZAX: Zax is a hatchet-like tool.
There is an adage in Scrabble that says “the player going first will win 54% of the time - all other things being equal”. Going first allows you to control the board - you determine whether your move will be horizontal or vertical , expose a premium square or a double word file, close or open the board.
Are there two-letter C words in Scrabble? In the 107 officially recognized Scrabble words of the TWL, there are no words with two letters that include the letter C. The Collins Scrabble dictionary used for play in some countries includes CH as an abbreviation for chain.
Three-letter “zen” is a game-changer too—after all, using the ”z” is worth a game-high 10 points—though many casual Scrabble players may be surprised to learn the word wasn't already playable.