Glunk Scrabble (2024)

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What is the highest winning word in Scrabble? ›

oxyphenbutazone, 1778 points

Oxyphenbutazone is an anti-inflammatory drug and a recognized word in the Scrabble dictionary. It is theorized to be the highest scoring legal word that would actually fit on a Scrabble board.

Gex is not a Scrabble word.

So 'absentmindedness', 'counterbalancing', and 'antidisestablishmentarianism' will never be played in a Scrabble game. There is only 1 'z' and 2 blanks. That means that any word with 4 'z's cannot possibly be played. This is not a particularly long list, but 'pizzazz', 'razzmatazz', and their conjugates are on it.

Any 15-letter word is the longest possible scrabble word, as that's the size of the board. The highest scoring word possible, to my knowledge, is oxyphenbutazone, along any edge of the board, for a triple triple triple. Purely theoretically, as it's never been played, it would be worth 1,751 points.

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.

Believe it or not, you can play these words in an official Scrabble game. If you've ever wanted to play "OK," "ew," "twerk," or "emoji" in Scrabble, you're in luck.

Gix is not a Scrabble word.

Gux is not a Scrabble word.

Gax is not a Scrabble word.

Our research also shows that the letter “J” is the least common letter in the alphabet. “J” is shown to appear just 0.16% of the time in the words analyzed. Other low frequency letters include “Q” with a frequency of 0.16% and “X” which shows up 0.29% of the time.

What is the #1 hardest word to spell? ›

#1: Onomatopoeia

Next, ease your word-cluttered mind with these simple spelling rules to remember commonly misspelled words.

One letter words are not allowed in Scrabble. A two letter word is the shortest possible word, and thanks to the new dictionary change, OK and EW are now acceptable as well.

Top Scrabble competitor Andrew Fisher likened Richard's achievement it to “Roger Federer deciding to take up badminton, and then winning the BWF world title a couple of months later," while Five Thirty Eight's Oliver Roeder compared Scrabble dictionaries across languages to demonstrate that learning all the French ...

Scrabble letter distribution is as follows: A-9, B-2, C-2, D-4, E-12, F-2, G-3, H-2, I-9, J-1, K-1, L-4, M-2, N-6, O-8, P-2, Q-1, R-6, S-4, T-6, U-4, V-2, W-2, X-1, Y-2, Z-1 and Blanks-2. Total face point value is 187.

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.

The international Scrabble legend earned 392 points with CAZIQUES (which is the plural of a type of oriole). It remains the world's top-scoring single Scrabble move ever. And though no one's managed to use it yet, the theoretical highest-scoring Scrabble word out there is OXYPHENBUTAZONE.

In April 1982, Dr Khoshnaw scored 392 points for "CAZIQUES" getting the "Q" on a double letter score and the "C" and "S" on triple word scores. CAZIQUES means West Indian Chiefs.

A well-contested Scrabble game should end with around 600 to 700 total points. So, the average Scrabble score to beat is about 350 for a 2-player game, 230 for a 3-player game, and 175 for a 4-player game. If you can regularly score higher than that, you can legitimately claim the coveted title of "Good at Scrabble."