Scrabble Word Finder

What is the Scrabble Word Finder?

Scrabble Word Finder is a simple tool to help find the highest scoring words in Scrabble. By using this Scrabble dictionary you will create more high-scoring words, and in turn, win more Scrabble games. It's simple... the more points you score, the more likely you are to win in Scrabble, and this tool can help you do exactly that!

Finding a word is easy, just type in the letters you have and click search. The dictionary will then show you all the words that can be formed from your combination of letters.

Word Find is the oldest and best word solver to find words with letters. The Finder works for regular Scrabble, as well as for Scrabble Go.

Along with our Scrabble Word Finder, we’ve also collected the most comprehensive and useful word lists, tools, and articles, so you have all the resources you need to crush friends and family in Scrabble (with love). The Scrabble Word Finder can help you identify tricky two letter words to make parallel plays and expand the board options. You can even see the word definition, just in case anyone accuses you of cheating ("I would never!").

Find out how to use the tricky, low-frequency letters like Q words without U which will get you out of having to swap tiles, or make a play which doesn't give you much points just to clear out some letters.

How to Use the Scrabble Word Finder Cheat?

We have a giant database of all the possible Scrabble words. When you enter the letters from your tiles, our word finder can quickly figure out exactly what words you can make with the tiles available. For competition within the United States and Canada (for NASPA), play the TWL Scrabble dictionary. Outside of the USA, tournaments use the SOWPODS or CSW dictionary.

We sort the list of words by length, and you can click on each of them individually to get:

• the definition
• the word score in Scrabble or Words with Friends cheat
• anagrams
• the list of any words you can make by adding an extra letter
• words that might start or end with that word you've entered
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This will give you a host of powerful tools in your arsenal to destroy the competition in Scrabble.

2 Scrabble Strategies for the Non-Cheat: Offense and Defense

Scrabble can be played both offensively and defensively.

As an offensive player, you’ll want to come up with the biggest point-producing words you can, using higher-point, lower-frequency letters as often as possible (like "Q" and "X"). As a defensive player, it’s your job to try to prevent your opponent from being able to place those winning words on the game board, through judicious blocking and scheming.

Here’s a look at some of the more successful offensive and defensive Scrabble tricks, as recommended by game experts:

Use bonus multiplier squares for high-value tiles

Place your high-scoring letters on bonus squares (i.e., double/triple letter and word spaces) whenever you can. This also works defensively, because when you’re using these spaces, you’re preventing your opponent from doing so as well.

Be strategic with your most common letters

Try to collect tiles for the most commonly used letters (A, E, I, L, N, R, S, and T) and use them judiciously. This means using them when you need the points; but also holding on to them so you can create a Bingo. (A Bingo is something like the Scrabble equivalent of a Royal Flush. You can achieve a Bingo by using your entire deck of tiles to create a word, all in a single turn. This gives you 50 extra points, plus plenty of Scrabble karma). Even one bingo can give you such an incredible word score that your opponent won't recover.

Look for suffixes & prefixes

Remember those suffixes and prefixes! A judicious "ED," "CON," or "ES" added to a word can be a game winner. You can also look for existing tiles in play to help play a word with a suffix or prefix to get a higher score.

Know your Q, Z, X, and J words

Embrace Q, Z, X, and J Words. These low-frequency letters are some of the greatest game-winning tools in the game. And remember as many "Q without U" words as you can. The best way to use these four game-changer letters is to use a Scrabble word finder, which we’ll discuss below.

Swap out your tiles when you have to

Don’t be afraid to swap out your tiles when necessary. Sometimes it’s the only way to stay in the game. When you can't make new words, this may be your only option. Remember, you lose a turn when swapping out letters, so make sure you only do so when you can’t play any words that will score you more than a few points, or when you feel it’s a last resort.

How to Cheat at Scrabble

In addition to offense and defense, there’s a third method you can follow. In this method, you can leverage your utter lack of vocabulary skills, and abandon the Scrabble Dictionary in a simple little strategy that can be called "cheating."

So your memory’s shot, your vocabulary’s not up to par, and your imagination isn’t going to win you the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Yet you still like to play word games - or you’re pressured into it regularly by your friends and you don’t want to be left out. That’s when your talents as a Scrabble cheat can propel you to victory.

One of Scrabble’s greatest joys is that it gives you unlimited opportunities to cheat, in ways that can be done so unobtrusively, you can actually get by with it. A surreptitious search of your purse for lipstick can yield marvellous results, provided you’ve got the right Scrabble cheat tools loaded on your phone. And this leads to one of the best ways to cheat - using a Scrabble Helper.

Here at Wordfind, you can enter your available letters and instantly get rewarded with a wealth of high scoring words of all lengths. Whether you’re beating your brains for two-letter words, or trying to come up with a Bingo, the Scrabble solver can unscramble your tiles and give you the word options you need to ace the game. It works for every popular game involving making words from letters, such as Words with Friends, Scrabble Go, and Lexulous. You can even use it in Crossword puzzles.

We've even got wildcards that you can instead of blank tiles, so when you find words you're getting everything the Scrabble dictionary has to offer.

Words Scrabble Pros Memorize to Win

Scrabble experts agree: One secret to success is to memorize all of the two- and three-letter words that are currently acceptable. "OSPD6" lists gems such as "EW" (the word we pronounce as "eeeewww!") and "OK" (which finally made it in).

Memorize useful 2 & 3-letter words

• "QI" (the circulating life force that’s the basis of Chinese medicine)
• "OI" (a genre of punk rock, and also an age-old Cockney expression)
• "ZA" (an abbreviation for pizza).

There are, in fact, 107 possible words in the "OSPD6" that experts say you absolutely must memorize if you’re going to play in Scrabble tournaments. When memorizing these words, one simple word association strategy is to think of subcategories to relate them to.

For example, these word lists can be something like:

• "Music Notes of the Scale" ("DO," "LA," and "TI"),
• "Olde English" ("HO," "LO," and "YE"),
• "Family Names" ("MA" and "PA"),
• "Interjections" ("HA," "EH," and "OH"),
• "Greek Letter Names" ("MU" and "PI"), and...well, you get the idea.

Memorize vowel and consonant only words

There are also some excellent options available if you remember words with only consonants, or words with only vowels. Using these hard-to-use letter tiles to form words can expand your game.

Scrabble expert (and not surprisingly, computer programmer) Tom Rees espouses a brilliant word-hacking strategy that involves memorizing "ABDEGHILMNRSTWXY" and going over in your mind a complete roster of possible letter combinations after each of these letters. This is basically an advanced exercise in word building, where you come up with real word subsets, then build on them to create larger words. Once you’re good at it, you can even come up with words that use as many Scrabble letters in that group as possible - such as the word "NEARSIGHTEDLY."

Which Scrabble Dictionary Should You Use?

One important tip: Get your Scrabble group to designate "The Official Scrabble Player’s Dictionary, Sixth Edition" (also known as "OSPD6") as the official rulebook for your games, which is used for all games in the US and Canada - (The TWL and SOWPODS dictionaries are used in the rest of the world). The downside of this is that it will give everyone else access to some nifty two-letter words; but at least you won’t be challenged by your buddy who acts as the self-appointed checker every time you use one.

When was Scrabble Invented?

The Scrabble board game was invented during the Great Depression in 1933 by Alfred Butts, an out-of-work New York architect. Butts partnered with entrepreneur James Brunot, who christened the fledgling board game with a catchy name, "Scrabble," and trademarked it in 1948. After many decades of being distributed by game manufacturer Selchow & Righter and J.W. Spear, Scrabble is now distributed in the U.S. by Hasbro and, in the rest of the world, by Mattel.

The game is played with tiles printed with letters, which you place on a gameboard to create words. Each letter carries a number value, and at the end of the game, these numbers are added up to reveal your total points. The highest number of points wins. Easy peasy, right?

Well, not really... When played competitively, Scrabble can be as complicated as chess, and as cutthroat and contentious as a million-dollar poker tournament or gold medal hockey game.

How did Scrabble Word Finder start?

Back in 2010, there was a giant surge in interest in the game of Scrabble on sites like Facebook, and eventually with massively popular games like Words with Friends cheat created by Zynga.

While we were playing Scrabble games with our friends, we had the natural urge to cheat and found that the word unscrambler sites out on the internet were low quality, slow and had terrible results - an idea was born! One of the first things we added was our Words with Friends cheat, and as that became popular we added word definitions, synonyms, anagrams, and other word generator language options to help visitors from other countries.

The cheat tool allows you to find words by entering your letters, including using question marks as wildcards to use in place of blank tiles in the game. The advanced options let you enter prefixes to pick words that start with certain letters, and suffixes for words that end with different letters. When you search, the word finder tool will find new words for the letters you have entered and from there you can see what the word means, whether it will work in different word games, and lots of other options to help you win more games!

The average Scrabble player needs a little help now and then, but placing the tiles are on you - pick the best bonus spot (preferably a triple word score!) on the board and maximise your point value, while blocking your opponents.

If you're more into word jumbles, use the anagram solver and you'll get anything that can be made from that existing word.

Using Our Scrabble Word Finder in Other languages

Our Word Solver works in several languages - We also use the dictionary in our Solveur Scrabble (French Scrabble solver), a shorter German dictionary for our Wortsuche (German Solver), A large Italian word dictionary for our Italian Scrabble Helper, a gargantuan Spanish Dictionary for the Buscador Palabra, and a smaller dictionary for our Romanian Scrabble Solver. The word finder program will scan the dictionary for any words which match the tiles you've entered.

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