Scrabble Word Finder

How to use the Scrabble word finder

Enter the letters on your rack — up to 15, with a ? standing in for any blank tile. The finder returns every legal Scrabble word you can build, sorted by point value with the highest scorer first.

1. Type the letters from your rack: e.g. RETAIN? for six letters and one blank.
2. Submit. We check every permutation against the official tournament word list.
3. Results show the word, the base point value, and any premium-square bonus you'd score by playing it.

Scrabble letter values and tile distribution

Scrabble's 100-tile bag uses these point values. Higher-value letters reward you for playing tougher consonants — but they also clog your rack if you can't place them.

Premium squares

The board has four kinds of premium squares that multiply the score of a tile or word:

• Double Letter Score (DL) — multiplies that tile's value by 2.
• Triple Letter Score (TL) — multiplies that tile's value by 3.
• Double Word Score (DW) — multiplies the entire word's score by 2 (the centre star is a DW).
• Triple Word Score (TW) — multiplies the entire word's score by 3.

Stack a high-value letter on a TL while the word also crosses a DW and the multipliers compound: a 10-point Q on a TL inside a DW word scores 30 from that letter alone, then 2× the whole word.

How the Scrabble word finder works

Under the hood, the finder runs an anagram search against the official tournament dictionary. For each input it generates every permutation of 2 to 8 letters (using each blank as a wildcard) and looks up each candidate against:

• TWL — the Tournament Word List, used in North America.
• SOWPODS / Collins — used everywhere else, including the World Scrabble Championship.
• Words With Friends dictionary — slightly larger than TWL, includes some informal words.

Results are deduplicated and sorted by point value descending, so the bingo-eligible plays (using all seven tiles for a 50-point bonus) appear at the top when they exist.

Strategy: turning letters into points

Use blanks for bingos, never for filler

A blank tile scores zero points but lets you complete a seven-letter word and claim the 50-point bingo bonus. Holding a blank for one extra turn to set up a bingo is almost always worth it.

Empty the rack — clean the bag

Tiles in your rack at the end of the game are deducted from your score. Worse: if you finish first, your opponent's leftover tiles are added to yours. Don't hoard letters.

Play parallel, not perpendicular

Words that run alongside an existing word (creating two-letter words at every intersection) typically out-score a single perpendicular hookup. Two-letter words to know: AA, AB, AD, AG, AH, AI, AL, AM, AN, AR, AS, AT, AW, AX, AY — and the 100+ others.

Save your S

S is the highest-utility tile in the bag because it pluralises almost any noun. Don't burn an S on a 5-point play when holding it for one turn could earn 30 by hooking onto a Triple Word.

Track the Q

Q is the most awkward tile because it usually wants a U. Memorise the Q-without-U words: QI, QAT, QADI, QOPH, FAQIR, QANAT, QINDARS, SHEQEL, TRANQ, UMIAQ. Drop a 10-point Q on a TL and you're playing for 30+ before any word multiplier.

Scrabble vs Words With Friends

The games look identical but score differently. Words With Friends gives J 10 points (Scrabble: 8), and the dictionaries differ — WWF allows some Scrabble-illegal words and vice versa. Our finder lets you switch dictionaries so the suggestions match your game.

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