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10 Words That Will Help You Win at Scrabble

mentalfloss.com — I’m not a champion Scrabble player by any means - I often resort to words like “at” and “it” just to use up a turn. But with this list, hopefully I’ll be a little more creative when using tiny little words.

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  • Wakkyweed, on 08/29/2008, -3/+125DORK - Someone who knows both of the words Xi and Qoph.
  • justblaze2319, on 08/29/2008, -1/+118kwyjibo
  • inactive, on 08/29/2008, -3/+1161. Aa. And I don’t mean the acronym for Alcoholics Anonymous, either. Aa is “basaltic lava having a rough surface.”
    2. Qat – a flowering plant native to East Africa and the Arabian peninsula.
    3. Zax – a slater or slate mason, or the tool used to cut and punch nail holes in roofing slate.
    4. Cwm – a valley, especially one created by glacial movement. Be warned: this one won’t get you many points, but it is good for using up pesky, low-score consonants taking up valuable space on your rack.
    5. Xu – Vietnamese money
    6. Qua – as or as being, or in the character of.
    7. Suq – a market, or part of a market, in an Arab city.
    8. Adz – an axe-like tool.
    9. Jo – sweetheart or dear
    10. Qadi – a judge in the Muslim community.
  • dcmcderm, on 08/28/2008, -1/+68"To quone something" - Cosmo Kramer
  • ycohain, on 08/29/2008, -3/+63Kwyjibo - A fat, dumb, balding North American ape with no chin
  • inactive, on 12/07/2008, -0/+50Xi - 14th letter of the Greek alphabet.
  • DeFex, on 08/29/2008, -0/+398: as in "he adzed me if i had any"
  • Versh, on 08/29/2008, -1/+34Kwyjibo is a perfectly cromulent word.
  • Raegar, on 08/29/2008, -0/+29And a short temper!
  • ELCad, on 08/29/2008, -0/+28QOPH -- 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
  • Narcism, on 08/29/2008, -0/+25"Qi" also a good one.
  • indieboy86, on 08/29/2008, -0/+25Why you little ...!
  • EnnuiStudent, on 08/29/2008, -0/+22....a north american...balding ape...?
  • inactive, on 08/29/2008, -0/+20No, it's using the w literally.

    Cuum.
  • voyetra8, on 08/29/2008, -2/+21It's lame that Scrabble picks random foreign words for inclusion, yet, when I used all my tiles on "areolas" in a game a year ago, it was challenged, and it wasn't in the damn Scrabble dictionary.

    I think the game is less about vocabulary and more about memorizing the Scrabble dictionary.
  • DelayedEraser, on 08/29/2008, -0/+19it's because the plural of areola is areolae, not areolas. nice try though! i'd have probably thought the same thing (i had to look it up just now to be sure)
  • PGPirate, on 08/29/2008, -0/+18Cwm - really thats a word with no vowels?
  • inactive, on 08/29/2008, -0/+17UH OH, KWYJIBO ON THE LOOSE
  • sexybobo, on 08/29/2008, -1/+18craziest
    http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/craziest
  • Spytap, on 08/29/2008, -1/+16There's only one "z" in scrabble.
  • KaiserNickolas, on 08/29/2008, -1/+15"No, no. We need a medical dictionary!"
  • marky7186, on 08/29/2008, -0/+13Grandma is goin down now.. BOOYAAA
  • Wakkyweed, on 08/29/2008, -1/+14@Gamoc

    I'm not too worried. By definition, all Digg users are dorks, which includes you as well.
  • numbnick, on 08/29/2008, -0/+12I guess you suq at spelling.

    I admit it.. That was lame.
  • douglasr007, on 08/29/2008, -0/+12I knew someone was going to say that.
  • GramarNazi, on 08/29/2008, -0/+10Azo, Qi, Jus, Taj, Raj, Xi, Ka, Ki, Adze (add the 'e' to get more points)
  • t3hmyth, on 08/30/2008, -0/+10It embiggens the user's vocabulary.
  • muxaulo, on 08/29/2008, -1/+11hey how did you get more than 7 tiles? :Þ
  • NathanielJ, on 08/29/2008, -1/+10No, it was win the first two times it was posted.
  • zip000, on 08/29/2008, -0/+9It looks Welsh to me...those people from Wales seem to love weird looking words.
  • Wormfather, on 08/29/2008, -1/+10In her defense, you can use a blank for the other Z and end up with 24 points, while my wizards only yeilds 20 points.
  • donkevin, on 08/29/2008, -0/+9Nathaniel == her??
  • jhaydon, on 08/29/2008, -0/+9What the hell was that?! That was awesome!
  • weatherlsp, on 08/29/2008, -1/+10A-E-I-O-U and sometimes Y ... Y is the vowel.
  • mescad, on 08/29/2008, -0/+8There's only one Z in a standard bag of Scrabble letters.
  • walshgopher, on 08/29/2008, -0/+8dugg down for missing that day in kindergarten.
  • inactive, on 08/29/2008, -0/+7Ys count as vowels.

    You were looking for words like crwth.
  • purepremiumpulp, on 08/29/2008, -0/+7When a patient gets difficult, you quone him!
  • manifestdata, on 08/29/2008, -1/+7So I just need to use runes and runewords from Diablo II. Who knew!?!?!?
  • Wakkyweed, on 08/29/2008, -3/+9I tried that once, but I only got up to Supercalifragil before I went off the edge of the board.
  • zionKing, on 08/29/2008, -0/+6If you had a 75 point word but playing it meant you had to form the word AA incidentally... wouldn't that be a good time to know AA is a word?
  • voyetra8, on 08/29/2008, -0/+6Actually, it looks like they have added it to the dictionary. Sweet vindication!

    AREOLA
    (AREOLAS/AREOLAE)
    a small space in a network of leaf veins -- AREOLAR/AREOLATE
  • JFallon126, on 08/29/2008, -0/+6It's Welsh. (And in the OED)
  • NJank, on 08/29/2008, -0/+6proper name.
  • teethandeyes, on 08/29/2008, -0/+5Learn all your two letter words and you will instantly be able to beat most of your friends and family.
  • NJank, on 08/29/2008, -1/+6if there's one thing I'm worried about, it's valuable space on your rack.
  • nate263, on 08/30/2008, -0/+5That sounds a little like a This American Life story.
  • Narcism, on 08/29/2008, -0/+5On the board? What about in everyone's face?
  • Wormfather, on 08/29/2008, -0/+5Wrong, scrabble is often one and lost with the use of two letter words, more often though it's that bingo on the TW or that Z or Q on the TL that sink the competition.

    The key for me is always to try and build a lead of 100 pts, demoralize the opponent and then ***** block all the TW and TL. If that doesnt work, I occupy their country.
  • sepllcehck, on 08/29/2008, -0/+4While this list can help you win - it really isn't that helpful for a normal player.

    The real secret is to score at least 12-20 a turn and understanding the very special situations where that rule doesn't apply.

    Something like this :

    http://www.yak.net/kablooey/scrabble/vowelHeavy.ht ...

    and this

    http://www.trussel.com/scrabble/2words.htm


    are far more helpful at winning at scrabble. The big scorers don't make much of a difference so long as you can get rid of your "bad" tiles faster. The more tiles you see - the greater your chances at a bingo or large scoring tile. Also - recognize one letter plays that can net you 20-30 points is wise.

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