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.
The most common two-letter words are of, to, in, it, is, be, as, at, so, we, he, by, or, on, do, if, me, my, up, an, go, no, us, am. The most common three-letter words are the and and.
oxyphenbutazone, 1778 points
It is theorized to be the highest scoring legal word that would actually fit on a Scrabble board. However, entire galaxies worth of stars would need to align in order to actually play this behemoth of a word in a game of Scrabble.
Read until the end ….. you'll laugh. This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP. ' It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v]. At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?
The Common Two Letter Words are is, an, at, or, of, do, to, so, no, on, in, ex, hi, me, we, ok, bi, us, un, go, etc.
ZA is the most played word containing the letter Z (and the only playable two-letter word with the letter Z) in tournament SCRABBLE play. Incidentally, . za is the country code for South Africa (Zuid-Afrika is Dutch for "South Africa"), but abbreviations and codes are not acceptable on the SCRABBLE board.
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.
The English language is extremely limited in the number of 2 letter words containing the letter Q. Indeed there are only 2 words that are not an abbreviation. These words are qi and qu.
“Qi” is a viable Scrabble word and it is the only two-letter word you can play with Q in Scrabble or Words With Friends. Played on its own (and not accounting for bonus squares or other words you form), the word "qi" is worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Get rid of your J and your Q as quickly as possible, because they're just damn hard to play and will clog your rack. The Q, in fact, is the worst offender. Kyle found that in words with between one and five letters, which are the words you're most likely to play, the fair value of a Q should be 18 points.
It's the only letter of that value – below it there's F, H, V, W and Y on four points, and the next highest value is eight (J and X).
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What has only two words, but thousands of letters? Edit: The answer is a post office. Don't Google it, silly goose!
Ew joins another 106 two-letter words, which are aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax, ay, ba, be, bi, bo, by, da, de, do, ed, ef, eh, el, em, en, er, es, et, ex, fa, fe, gi, go, ha, he, hi, hm, ho, id, if, in, is, it, jo, ka, ki, la, li, lo, ma, me, mi, mm, mo, mu, my, na, ne, no, nu, od, oe, of, ...
mamma : alternative spelling of "mama", or a mammary gland. nanna : a word for a grandmother. pappa : a word for a father. susus : plural of "susu", a money sharing group.
In dictionaries, j, q, and z are found the least, but some of the words are rarely used. And if you value the opinion of cryptologists (people who study secret codes and communication), x, q, and z make the fewest appearances in the writing scene.
Only one of the 2 letter words uses no vowels: SH. If you use CWS as well as the OSPD6, then you can make words like CH, KY, NY, ST, and FY.
Za is a slang word that is the shortened form of "pizza." It's acceptable in tournament Scrabble and is part of the official Scrabble dictionary.
The highest scoring 15-letter bingo is theoretically "OXYPHENBUTAZONE" (an anti-inflammatory drug once used mostly to treat arthritis). With 8 letters already placed between three triples, the word can score 1785.
This distribution information comes in handy when you know that only one J, K, Q, X, and Z are in the game.