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Scrabble Word Finder
Enter the letters on your rack and use ? for a blank tile. Add a board letter when you need to play through an existing tile, then compare valid words ranked by score.
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Scrabble Strategy Guide
The Scrabble Word Finder shows base tile scores. The real game is about bonus squares. A 5-letter word worth 8 points on a triple-word square scores 24. A 3-letter word worth 6 points that opens a triple-word square for your opponent can cost you more than it gains.
The most important strategic rule: never open a triple-word square for your opponent. If a play would leave the TW square reachable on the next turn, choose a different play even if it scores fewer points.
Block common hook letters. Certain letters create powerful plays when added to existing words. The letter S can extend almost any word. Q words without U, QI, QAT, QOPH, are worth memorizing. They score high and your opponents rarely block them.
How to Use the Scrabble Word Finder
Click the Scrabble or Words With Friends button at the top to load the correct point values, since several letters (like J and V) score differently between the two games.
Type your rack tiles into the uppercase input box, up to 8 characters. Use a question mark for every blank tile in your rack.
Optionally type a single letter already on the board into the "Board letter" box if you want results that must include it, and use the "Min length" dropdown to hide short words you are not interested in.
Check the three gold and card tiles for your top-scoring options, then scroll the full word list below, sorted from highest score to lowest, to find a play that fits your board.
Worked Example: Scoring the Rack QUARTZ
Enter QUARTZ into the tool in Scrabble mode. QUARTZ itself is not a playable single word because it is only 6 tiles and needs an extra vowel to connect, but the finder still returns valid sub-words like QUART (worth 20 base points thanks to the Q and Z-adjacent high letters), TAR, ART, RAT, and ZAR. QUART scores well because Q is worth 10 points on its own. If you add a blank (QUARTZ?), the tool can also surface QUARTZY-style extensions depending on what the wildcard fills in.
A second example: the rack AEINRST is one of the most bingo-friendly racks in Scrabble because it contains six of the most common letters in the language. Entering it with a minimum length of 7 returns bingos like NASTIER, RETAINS, RATINES, and STAINER, any of which would score 50 bonus points if played across all 7 tiles.
Scrabble Scoring Rules You Need to Know
Letter values range from 1 point (A, E, I, O, U, and others) to 10 points (Q and Z).
Double Letter and Triple Letter squares multiply only the tile placed on them, before any word multiplier is applied.
Double Word and Triple Word squares multiply the entire word score, and apply after letter bonuses are added.
Playing all 7 tiles in a single turn adds a flat 50-point bingo bonus on top of the word's score.
A blank tile is always worth 0 points, no matter which letter it represents on the board.
Common Mistakes When Using a Word Finder
The most common mistake is playing the single highest-scoring word the tool shows without checking the board. A 9-point word on a triple-word square beats a 15-point word played on plain squares. The second common mistake is opening a triple-word square for your opponent by placing a word one tile away from it. The third mistake is forgetting the minimum length filter exists, which leads to scrolling past 200 short words when you only wanted 6 and 7 letter bingos.
If you want to double-check every possible word hidden in your tiles regardless of score, try the Word Unscrambler, or if you only have a random jumble to sort out, the Anagram Solver can help you spot full-length exact matches quickly.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Scrabble Word Finder supports all three major word game dictionaries. TWL (Tournament Word List) is the official dictionary for North American Scrabble tournaments and contains approximately 190,000 words. SOWPODS is the international tournament dictionary with approximately 276,000 words. WWF (Words With Friends) is the Zynga digital game dictionary with approximately 173,000 words. Select your dictionary before entering tiles using the toggle above the results. Words valid in SOWPODS may not be valid in TWL, so always match your dictionary to your game.
Enter a question mark (?) in your tile rack to represent a blank tile. The tool calculates the blank as worth 0 points and finds all valid words that could be formed using any letter in the blank position. Results show the blank tile contribution in a different color. If you have 2 blanks, enter 2 question marks. Blanks dramatically expand your rack options, a blank tile in a 7-letter rack can unlock 50 to 200 additional valid words.
Yes. If there is already a letter on the board you want to play through, type it into the separate Board letter box below your rack. The tool will find words containing that letter the same way it handles any tile. Results will include words where that letter appears in any position, so you may need to filter by length to find words that work for your specific board position.
The highest-scoring word for your rack is highlighted in gold in the top-3 summary cards. This is the best possible play based on base tile values alone, without accounting for board bonus squares. The actual score of any play depends heavily on where you place it. A 12-point word on a triple-word square scores 36. Always check the board for triple-word and double-word squares before playing the highest-point word.
Yes. When you enter all 7 tiles and the tool finds a word using all of them, that word is a bingo. In Scrabble, playing all 7 tiles in one turn earns a 50-point bonus. Bingos appear in the results at the maximum length you searched. For bingos to be usable on the board, they must connect to at least one existing tile, so a bingo on a fresh rack is only playable if you can hook it to the board.
Use the Min length dropdown to the right of the board letter box. Choose any value from 2 to 7 to hide shorter words and focus only on longer, higher-value plays. Setting a minimum length of 5 or 6, for example, is a fast way to scan for a possible bingo without scrolling past dozens of 2 and 3 letter words first.
The theoretical record for a single word play in tournament Scrabble is over 300 points, achieved by landing a long word across multiple premium squares including double and triple word scores. In everyday games, a strong single play scores between 20 and 50 points. Our tool shows base tile value only, so treat any score above 30 as a sign to hunt for a matching bonus square.
Yes. Click the Words With Friends toggle above the input to switch the letter point values and dictionary to the WWF system. Words With Friends uses different point values than Scrabble for several letters, for example J is worth 10 in WWF but 8 in Scrabble, so always confirm you have the right mode selected before trusting the point totals shown.