Most Useful Scrabble Words

Winning list of 402 most useful words by playability from the official TWL dictionary. Playability tells us how often a word is used in real games. All words are ordered by playability. After analyzing a large set of games we created this list of words that were used most often. Statistics show that learning these words is a good strategy to win more.

Most Useful 6 Letter Words

Most Useful 7 Letter Words

Most Useful 8 Letter Words

The Most Playable Words

These 75 words have the highest probability to be played. The higher up on the list the word is the higher the likelihood for it to be used.
 
  • 1. Qi
  • 2. Qat
  • 3. Xi
  • 4. Ox
  • 5. Za
  • 6. Ex
  • 7. Qis
  • 8. Ax
  • 9. Jo
  • 10. Xu
  • 11. Qadi
  • 12. Qaid
  • 13. Of
  • 14. If
  • 15. Oe
  • 16. Qua
  • 17. Yo
  • 18. Oi
  • 19. Oy
  • 20. Ow
  • 21. Wo
  • 22. Joe
  • 23. Aw
  • 24. We
  • 25. Zee
  • 26. Oxo
  • 27. Axe
  • 28. Ye
  • 29. Fa
  • 30. Ef
  • 31. Fe
  • 32. Qats
  • 33. Suq
  • 34. Ai
  • 35. Hi
  • 36. Aa
  • 37. Ay
  • 38. Ya
  • 39. Jee
  • 40. Vex
  • 41. Uh
  • 42. Vox
  • 43. Oh
  • 44. Taj
  • 45. Fez
  • 46. Jet
  • 47. Jew
  • 48. Zoa
  • 49. Tranq
  • 50. Wiz
  • 51. Azo
  • 52. Jin
  • 53. Oaf
  • 54. Zed
  • 55. Eh
  • 56. Jiao
  • 57. Gox
  • 58. Hm
  • 59. Wax
  • 60. Hex
  • 61. Tix
  • 62. Adz
  • 63. Vaw
  • 64. Fax
  • 65. Nix
  • 66. Jaw
  • 67. Ae
  • 68. Bi
  • 69. He
  • 70. Zag
  • 71. Rez
  • 72. Zax
  • 73. Ho
  • 74. You
  • 75. Vow
 
Looking at this list it becomes clear that short words are used often. Sadly there exists no best possible word. This is because each game is different and the tiles you get are random. However after analyzing actual games we found that the most used word is Qi.

Letter scores

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  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
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  • W
  • Y
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