Scrabble Word Lists
Find a play at the right length, dump the tricky tiles, or memorise the high-scorers. These are the lists serious players keep within reach.
Popular lists
The ones people open the most.
Big plays
Highest-scoring words
The biggest tile-value words in the dictionary. Line one of these up on a triple-word square.
View listParallel play
2-letter words
The first thing every Scrabble player memorises: the glue that makes parallel plays legal.
View listBingo!
7-letter words
Use all seven tiles for the 50-point bonus. Every valid bingo, ready to learn.
View listTricky tile
Words with Q
Stuck with a Q? Here's every word that uses it, including the ones that don't need a U.
View listBoth ways
Palindrome words
KAYAK, LEVEL, ROTOR: words that read the same backwards, and the satisfaction of knowing them.
View listAll consonants
Words with no vowels
CRWTH, NTH, PHPHT. When your rack is nothing but consonants, these are the escape hatch.
View listBy word length
Two letters up to fifteen: every valid word of each length, with its Scrabble & WWF tile value.
The expensive tiles
Q, J, X, Z and K carry the points, and the headaches. Every word that uses one:
Plus the special cases: Q words without a U after · words with no vowels · palindromes.
Strategy stashes
Two lists worth keeping in your back pocket, for clearing a clogged rack and for spotting plays hiding inside longer words.
Words within words
Compound words
BOOKCASE, WATERFALL, RAINBOW: words built from two smaller words. Handy for seeing the parts you can already play.
View listRack savers
Vowel dumps
AA, AUDIO, AERIE, QUEUE: vowel-heavy words for offloading a rack stuffed with A, E, I, O and U.
View listNot sure a word counts? See the words players most wish were real, and what to play instead.
Browse by letter
Every word that contains, starts with or ends with a given letter.
The complete lists
The whole dictionary, A→Z. Browse it all or jump to a length.
Got a word in mind?
Look it up: validity, points, definition, anagrams, and every play it hooks into.