Letter Frequency for Scrabble CSW Dictionary

The CSW Scrabble dictionary(Collins Scrabble Words) contains 267751 unique English words. The Scrabble Collins tournaments words list is played in most countries except the USA, Thailand and Canada. Sometimes the CSW word list is also referred to as: SOWPODS and Collins.

Scrabble tile distribution

English Scrabble contains 100 tiles in every game. The total value for all the tiles is 187 points.
  • 1 tiles of (J, K, Q, X, Z).
  • 2 tiles of (Blanks, B, C, F, H, M, P, V, W, Y).
  • 3 tiles of (G).
  • 4 tiles of (D, L, S, U).
  • 6 tiles of (N, R, T).
  • 8 tiles of (O).
  • 9 tiles of (A, I).
  • 12 tiles of (E).

Letter frequencies for Scrabble Collins

We analyzed all of the 267751 CSW Scrabble dictionary words to find the frequency of letters. Scrabble letter distribution for Collins shows what words start with, end with and contain certain letters.

CSW word length frequency

The Collins CSW 267751 word list only contains words that are 2 to 15 letters long. Next all words are ordered by word length(number of letters) and counted. Now we know the word length distributions.

CSW word score frequency

First we calculated how many points each word in the Collins dictionary is worth. Then we counted how many same value Scrabble scores there are.

CSW prefix frequencies

This list shows the most common prefixes. We analyzed all possible word beginnings for this dictionary to find what is most frequent.

CSW suffix frequencies

This list contains the most common suffixes. After analyzing all possible word endings for this dictionary we discovered what the most frequent are.

Scrabble resources

Scrabble letter scores from A to Z

  • Letters (A, E, I, L, N, O, R, S, T, U) are 1 point.
  • Letters (D, G) are 2 points.
  • Letters (B, C, M, P) are 3 points.
  • Letters (F, H, V, W, Y) are 4 points.
  • Letter (K) is 5 points.
  • Letters (J, X) are 8 points.
  • Letters (Q, Z) are 10 points.