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Highest Scoring Scrabble Words

1,980 of them, all valid in ENABLE. Words worth 30 or more in raw tile value, before any bonus squares.

Ranked by raw tile value, so these are what the letters are worth before a double-letter, triple-word or fifty-point bingo bonus is applied. Placement is usually worth more than the word itself—but a word that starts at 40 points has a head start no square can give you.

The words

The 400 most common of 1,980, everyday words first. The word finder below reaches all of them.

What is in this list

Every entry here appears in ENABLE, so a word game will accept it. Scores are raw tile totals in Scrabble, with the Words With Friends score on hover—the two games value tiles differently, and the gap is largest exactly where it matters, on the high-value letters.

Words in total
1,980
Everyday words
4
Highest Scrabble score
razzamatazzes at 51
Average Scrabble score
32.5
Longest
ethylenediaminetetraacetates at 28 letters
Letters that turn up most
I 85%, O 76%, E 76%, A 74%, T 67%, R 62%

Questions

How many highest scoring scrabble words are there?
1,980 in ENABLE, the word list Scrabble and Words With Friends programs validate against. This page lists them all where the list is short enough, and the most common of them where it is not.
Which one scores highest?
razzamatazzes, at 51 points in Scrabble and 52 in Words With Friends. That is raw tile value: a bonus square can multiply it, and a seven-tile play adds fifty on top.
What is the longest?
ethylenediaminetetraacetates, at 28 letters. The list spans 5 to 28 letters.
Which are worth learning first?
The ones you will actually get a chance to play: razzamatazzes, razzmatazzes, razzamatazz, hypophysectomizing, razzmatazz, carboxymethylcelluloses, electroencephalographically, hypophysectomized. The list is ordered that way, most common first.

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Type the tiles you are holding, ? included for blanks, and the finder returns every word you can make from them—scored, everyday words first. It searches all 315,007 words in your browser, so nothing you type is sent anywhere.

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