Scrabble Word Finder
A Scrabble word finder turns the tiles on your rack into every legal word you can make, ranked by Scrabble points, so you can see the best play instead of hunting for it.
Use ? or * for a blank tile, up to 15 characters. The dictionary loads in the background.
Every play your rack makes appears below with its Scrabble score. Add a board pattern under Filters to build through tiles already down.
Same search as the word unscrambler, scored with Scrabble tile values and filtered for the letter you need to hook onto on the board.
Enter your rack and the finder lists everything playable, longest and highest scoring first, each word carrying its Scrabble value. The board pattern matters more than most people expect: real Scrabble plays run through letters already on the board, so describing that spot, with the placed letters where they sit and a dot for each open square, removes every word you have no room for and lets the board letters count for free.
Scores here are raw word values from the standard English tile set. Board multipliers depend on where you put the tiles, so add the double letter, triple letter, double word and triple word squares yourself once you have picked a spot. Blanks are entered as a question mark. The score shown counts the letter a blank stands for, so subtract that letter, because the real tile is worth zero.
How does the Scrabble word finder work?
Type your rack, then the board pattern
Enter the 7 tiles on your rack in any order; the box holds up to 15 characters. To play through tiles already down, write the spot as a pattern: board letters where they sit, a dot for each open square. The pattern .a.le asks for a five-letter word with A, L and E in place and two squares to fill from your rack.
Blanks: one question mark per blank tile
A standard set holds 2 blanks, but the finder accepts as many question marks as you type, each tried as all 26 letters. A blank can also fill an open square in a board pattern. Remember that the printed score counts the letter the blank becomes, while the real tile scores 0.
An open word list, not TWL or Collins
The finder searches 269,870 words of 2 to 15 letters from the open SCOWL family of English word lists. Tournament Scrabble is judged by TWL in North America and Collins elsewhere, and this is neither, so treat an obscure result as a candidate to check against the dictionary your game uses.
Ranked by Scrabble points, or grouped by length
Sort by Score and the highest raw word value leads, priced with the standard tiles: Q and Z at 10, J and X at 8, K at 5. Sort by Length and the plays are grouped longest first, where the seven-letter words are the ones that empty your rack for the 50-point bingo. Board multipliers are yours to add.
What are the Scrabble tile values and how many of each tile are there?
A standard English Scrabble set holds 100 tiles worth 187 points of face value between them. The table is the whole distribution: how many of each letter exist in the bag and what each one is worth. It is the reference behind every decision the finder above helps you make, because a tile you will never draw again is a tile worth planning around.
| Letter | Tiles in the bag | Points |
|---|---|---|
| A | 9 | 1 |
| B | 2 | 3 |
| C | 2 | 3 |
| D | 4 | 2 |
| E | 12 | 1 |
| F | 2 | 4 |
| G | 3 | 2 |
| H | 2 | 4 |
| I | 9 | 1 |
| J | 1 | 8 |
| K | 1 | 5 |
| L | 4 | 1 |
| M | 2 | 3 |
| N | 6 | 1 |
| O | 8 | 1 |
| P | 2 | 3 |
| Q | 1 | 10 |
| R | 6 | 1 |
| S | 4 | 1 |
| T | 6 | 1 |
| U | 4 | 1 |
| V | 2 | 4 |
| W | 2 | 4 |
| X | 1 | 8 |
| Y | 2 | 4 |
| Z | 1 | 10 |
| Blank | 2 | 0 |
- Board: 15 by 15 squares
- Rack: 7 tiles, refilled after every turn
- Tiles: 100 in total: 98 letter tiles plus 2 blanks worth 0 points
- Bingo bonus: 50 extra points for playing all seven tiles in one turn
- Highest tiles: Q and Z at 10 points, J and X at 8, K at 5
- Word list: TWL in North America, Collins elsewhere, so a word can be legal in one and not the other
Rules checked against Scrabble letter distributions (Wikipedia).
Full scrabble tile distribution and letter valuesreference → adds each letter’s share of the bag and its points in the bag, names the sources, and gives you an embed and an open licence if you want the table on your own site.
How do you use a Scrabble word finder mid-game?
Type your seven tiles, then describe the spot you are aiming at as a board pattern. With the rack RTBSC and the pattern .a.le, where A, L and E are already on the board, the finder returns TABLE, CABLE and SABLE: each fills the two open squares from your rack and plays through the board letters for free. For a simple hook onto one letter, the Starts and Ends filters do the same job.
Then read the board before the list. A four-letter word with a Z on a triple letter square usually beats a six-letter word played on plain squares, so scan for the bonus you can reach first and pick the highest-scoring word from the finder that reaches it.
Which Scrabble tiles are worth the most points?
Q and Z are worth 10, J and X are worth 8, and K is worth 5. There is exactly one of each of those tiles in a 100-tile set, so a game contains at most one Q, one Z, one J, one X and one K. The rest of the board is built from cheap, plentiful tiles: twelve E tiles, nine A and nine I, and six each of N, R and T.
The two blanks are worth zero and are still the most valuable tiles in the bag, because they complete the seven-tile play that earns the 50-point bingo bonus. The same logic applies to the four S tiles: an S can pluralise a word already on the board while starting a new one, scoring both at once, which is worth far more than the single point printed on it.
How do you earn the 50-point bingo bonus?
Play all seven tiles from your rack in one turn and Scrabble adds 50 points on top of the word score. That single rule is why rack management matters: a turn that dumps four awkward consonants for 8 points can be better than a turn that scores 18 and leaves you unplayable.
The practical route to a bingo is to keep a workable mix of vowels and consonants, hold on to your S and your blank, and feed the finder your full rack plus one board letter so eight-letter results appear. If nothing comes back, drop the least useful tiles and draw again.
What about words with a Q and no U?
The Q is the tile that strands players, because there is only one U for every Q in the distribution and four U tiles in total. QI, the two-letter word for life force, is the single most useful escape: 11 points before any multiplier, and it fits almost anywhere on a crowded board.
Beyond QI there is a small set of Q-without-U words that are worth knowing by heart, alongside the complete two-letter list. Both are laid out on the reference page linked below, generated from the same dictionary this finder searches.
Worked examples: what a real rack returns
RETAINS
A seven-tile rack of common letters. The seven-letter results are bingos worth an extra 50 points, and the shorter words below them are the fallback when the board is tight:
Showing 24 of 350 words from these 7 letters. See every word from RETAINS →
QUIZZED
The opposite problem: a rack loaded with expensive tiles. Note how the short words still score heavily, because a Q or a Z carries 10 points on its own:
Showing 17 of 17 words from these 7 letters. See every word from QUIZZED →
Word finder, word unscrambler or anagram solver?
A Scrabble word finder is a word unscrambler with board constraints bolted on. The difference is not the dictionary, it is what each tool lets you filter by.
| Tool | Uses | Returns | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anagram solver | every letter you enter, no more and no fewer | only words the exact same length as your input | names, single hidden words, and the LISTEN / SILENT kind of puzzle |
| Word unscrambler | any subset of your letters | full-length words plus every shorter word inside them | the daily jumble, tile games, and any puzzle with several answers |
| Word finder | your letters plus board constraints | words filtered by starting letter, ending letter or length | Scrabble and Words With Friends, where the play has to fit the board |
For a Scrabble turn you want this page, because the starts-with, ends-with and length filters map onto the real limits of a board. For a jumble or a puzzle with no board, the plain unscrambler is faster. For a single hidden word that uses every letter, use anagram mode.
How many Scrabble words are there of each length?
The full list this finder searches, counted by word length. The two and three-letter words are the ones worth memorising, because they are what let you squeeze a play into a closed board:
| Word length | Words in the dictionary | Full list |
|---|---|---|
| 2 letters | 124 | Every 2-letter word |
| 3 letters | 1,300 | Every 3-letter word |
| 4 letters | 5,469 | Every 4-letter word |
| 5 letters | 12,578 | Every 5-letter word |
| 6 letters | 22,342 | Every 6-letter word |
| 7 letters | 33,192 | Every 7-letter word |
| 8 letters | 40,530 | Every 8-letter word |
Frequently asked questions
Is QI a valid Scrabble word?
Yes. QI is the most useful two-letter word in Scrabble because it plays a Q without needing a U. It is worth 11 points before any board multiplier, since Q is worth 10 and I is worth 1.
How is a Scrabble score calculated?
Add the value printed on each tile in the word. Letter multipliers apply to the individual tile, then word multipliers apply to the whole word, and both only count on the turn the tile is first placed. Playing all seven tiles in one turn adds a further 50 points.
How many tiles are in a Scrabble set?
100 in the standard English set: 98 letter tiles plus 2 blanks. E is the most common at twelve tiles, and there is only one each of J, K, Q, X and Z.
Can I search with a blank tile?
Yes. Type a question mark for each blank and the finder tries every letter in that position. Blanks score zero points, so use them for length and for reaching the 50-point bingo bonus rather than for raw tile value.
Can the finder fit a word to a pattern on the board?
Yes. Write the pattern with the letters already placed where they sit and a dot for each open square, so .a.le means A, L and E are down with two squares open. The finder fills the dots from your rack, blanks included, uses the board letters for free and only returns words that use at least one of your tiles.
Does the finder know about double and triple word squares?
No, and no honest finder can, because the bonus depends on where you place the tiles. The scores shown are raw word values. Pick your square first, then choose the highest-scoring word from the list that reaches it.
Are all these words valid in tournament Scrabble?
Not necessarily. Unscrambly searches a large open English word list. Official play uses TWL in North America and Collins elsewhere, and the two disagree on thousands of words, so check your house dictionary for anything unusual.
What is the highest-scoring Scrabble word?
That depends on the board, not just the word, because multipliers can several-fold a play. On raw tile value alone, words stacking Z, Q, J and X tiles score the most. The reference page lists the top hundred short words by raw Scrabble value.