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Scrabble Word Finder

Type the tiles on your rack (up to seven letters plus blanks) and get every valid Scrabble word, ranked by score and grouped by length. The finder highlights bingo candidates — seven- and eight-letter plays that earn the 50-point bonus — and shows the raw Scrabble points for every word so you can weigh a safe short play against a rack-clearing bomb.

The dictionary is based on the open ENABLE lexicon and covers the overwhelming majority of Collins Scrabble Words used in UK, European and international tournaments. If you play with the TWL in North American clubs, the same interface works — just double-check any borderline word in your local rulebook.

Enter your seven tiles. Use ? or * for each blank tile (up to three).

Options — narrow results
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How to use the Scrabble word finder

  1. Type your rack. All seven tiles, no spaces. Order doesn't matter.
  2. Add blanks as ?. One or two blanks unlock huge extra possibilities; each blank scores zero but can stand in for any letter.
  3. Add a "starts with" or "ends with" letter if you're playing through a fixed board letter — that letter must be one of your own tiles, or already on the board.
  4. Scan the longest lists first. Any seven-tile word is a bingo (+50). Six-letter plays are usually your next-best move.

Playing for the bingo

A "bingo" is a play that uses all seven of your tiles in a single turn, earning a fixed 50-point bonus on top of the word score. Bingos are the single biggest score swing in the game — a decent bingo is worth 70–90 points, and a triple-word-scoring bingo across two premium squares can hit 130+.

Racks that reach the board often are ones with balanced vowels and consonants (three vowels, four consonants is the sweet spot) plus common suffixes like -ING, -IER,-EST, -IEST, and -TION. If you always dump your S and blank on short plays, you'll rarely see a bingo; hold them for the setup.

Classic seven-letter racks that bingo through almost any board opening include SATIRES, RETAINS, ROASTED, TRAINED, RELATES, SNORTED and STAINER. The unscrambler above will surface every possibility for your particular rack.

Hooks, extensions and parallel plays

A "hook" is a single letter you add to the front or back of an existing board word to make a new valid word. Hooks are how experts eke huge scores out of ugly racks — playing a two- or three-letter word parallel to an existing word so both count. Learn the S-hooks first (adding S to almost any noun), then the tricky ones like PIOUS → PIOUSLY, QI → QIS,ZAX → ZAXES, and the front hooks QUEEN → SQUEEN style plays.

High-value letters — Q, Z, J, X

Q (10 points) is the most notorious tile. Two Q-without-U words every UK player should know are QI (life force, tournament-legal) and QAT (a chewable stimulant leaf). Others: QIS, QADI, QANAT, QOPH. On a triple-letter square, QI hits 62 points.

Z (10) is easier — ZA, ZO, ZEE, ZEP, ZED, ZAP. X (8) is the friendliest big tile: XI, XU, EX, OX, AX, and the ever-useful XIS. J (8) has JO, JOE, JAB, JOY, JAM. Combining any big tile with a double- or triple-letter square is often more valuable than a bigger word played safely.

Rack management

  • Don't over-vowel or over-consonant. After each play, aim for 3–4 vowels on your rack.
  • Dump duplicates. Two Us or three Is stall your rack; play them off even for a small score.
  • Hold the S and blank unless you can score 25+ points with them, or you already see a bingo forming.
  • Watch the tile bag. Late-game, count the remaining tiles and the racks left; if there are no vowels, don't dump your last one.

Collins vs TWL: the UK angle

Collins Scrabble Words (CSW) is the world tournament dictionary used at the UK, European, Australian and world championships. The North American TWL is smaller and doesn't accept many CSW-only entries. Common Collins-only staples worth knowing in UK games: EW, OB, ZO, ZA, TE, KO, NA, DA, OD, PO, YU. For a deeper breakdown, see our Collins vs TWL explainer when it publishes; until then the finder returns every word in the wider open lexicon and you can spot Collins staples in the two- and three-letter groups above.

FAQs

Is this a UK Scrabble word finder?

It uses the ENABLE lexicon, which overlaps heavily with both Collins Scrabble Words (used in UK, European and international tournaments) and the TWL (North American clubs). For high-stakes UK games where Collins-only words matter, we flag common differences in the strategy notes below.

Does the score column include board bonuses?

No — the number next to each word is the raw letter score. Add double- and triple-letter or word bonuses from your board on top.

Can I use blanks?

Yes. Type ? or * for each blank tile (up to three). A blank counts as zero points but expands the set of possible words dramatically.

How do I find high-scoring bingos?

Enter all seven of your tiles and any blanks, leave length blank, and look at the seven- and eight-letter groups at the top. Any word using every tile earns a 50-point bingo bonus.

Why is my rare word missing?

The finder uses a curated open lexicon. A handful of obscure Collins-only entries (like TWP, ZA, ZO) may be missing; if a word is rejected in an official game, that's the source of truth, not us.