Scrabble Word Lists
The lists a word-game player actually goes looking for: what to do with a Q and no U, how to play a rack with no vowels, and the two- and three-letter words that make a blocked board scoreable. 9,664 entries across 10 lists, every one of them valid in ENABLE.
The lists
- Two Letter Words 96 wordsThe backbone of parallel plays, and the difference between a stuck rack and a 30-point turn.
- Three Letter Words 972 wordsThe next rung up: enough of them to always have a play, few enough to learn.
- Words With Q and No U 21 wordsWhat to do with a Q when the U never arrives.
- Words Without Vowels 121 wordsEvery playable word with no A, E, I, O or U.
- Words With All Five Vowels 2,462 wordsThe opposite problem: a rack that is nothing but vowels.
- Words With Z 1,328 wordsTen points a tile, up to seven letters.
- Words With X 1,130 wordsEight points, and unusually easy to place.
- Words With J 998 wordsEight points, and much harder to place than the X.
- Words With Q 556 wordsEverything up to seven letters that uses the game's most awkward tile.
- Highest Scoring Scrabble Words 1,980 wordsWords worth 30 or more in raw tile value, before any bonus squares.
Why ENABLE and not the full dictionary
This site merges four word lists into 315,007 words, which is the right answer when you are trying to find out whether something is a word. It is the wrong answer when you are deciding what to play: Webster's 1913 contributes tens of thousands of entries that a word game will simply reject.
So these pages use ENABLE alone—172,823 words, public domain, and the list Scrabble and Words With Friends programs validate against. Where the general two-letter list counts 134 words, this section counts 96, and the difference is the 38 that would be challenged off the board.
About the scores
Every word on these pages carries its Scrabble score, with the Words With Friends score on hover. Both are raw tile totals and deliberately exclude double- and triple-letter and word squares, which depend on where you place a word rather than on the word itself. A seven-tile play also earns a fifty-point bonus in Scrabble, which no word list can tell you about in advance.
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