TWL Scrabble Dictionary Statistics

The TWL Scrabble dictionary(Official Tournament and Club Word List) contains 187630 unique English words. The TWL Scrabble tournaments words list is played in the USA, Canada and Thailand. Sometimes the TWL word list is also referred to as: NWL, OTCWL and OWL.

Scrabble letter frequencies from A to Z

We analyzed all of the 187630 TWL Scrabble words to find out what letters are used most. You can get an interesting overview of frequencies on what words in the Scrabble vocabulary start with, end with and contain certain letters.

Letter A
53.78% of words(100915) contain A.
12.55% of words(23548) contain AA.
5.93% of words(11127) start with A.
1.81% of words(3398) end with A.
Letter B
15.6% of words(29262) contain B.
1.3% of words(2432) contain BB.
5.66% of words(10621) start with B.
0.15% of words(273) end with B.
Letter C
30.94% of words(58060) contain C.
4.45% of words(8357) contain CC.
9.23% of words(17313) start with C.
2.15% of words(4039) end with C.
Letter D
27.14% of words(50917) contain D.
3.26% of words(6126) contain DD.
5.84% of words(10956) start with D.
9.28% of words(17412) end with D.
Letter E
69.3% of words(130031) contain E.
26.16% of words(49089) contain EE.
3.96% of words(7421) start with E.
9.88% of words(18537) end with E.
Letter F
9.96% of words(18688) contain F.
1.16% of words(2181) contain FF.
3.96% of words(7425) start with F.
0.21% of words(389) end with F.
Letter G
21.99% of words(41261) contain G.
2.32% of words(4349) contain GG.
3.3% of words(6198) start with G.
7.53% of words(14135) end with G.
Letter H
19.22% of words(36059) contain H.
1.5% of words(2816) contain HH.
3.62% of words(6793) start with H.
1.18% of words(2212) end with H.
Letter I
58.21% of words(109216) contain I.
16.99% of words(31875) contain II.
3.64% of words(6836) start with I.
0.52% of words(972) end with I.
Letter J
1.49% of words(2793) contain J.
0.02% of words(35) contain JJ.
0.84% of words(1576) start with J.
0% of words(7) end with J.
Letter K
7.83% of words(14691) contain K.
0.42% of words(785) contain KK.
1.08% of words(2028) start with K.
0.86% of words(1620) end with K.
Letter L
39.11% of words(73378) contain L.
7.39% of words(13865) contain LL.
2.99% of words(5619) start with L.
3.09% of words(5798) end with L.
Letter M
22.6% of words(42404) contain M.
2.45% of words(4601) contain MM.
5.63% of words(10556) start with M.
1.53% of words(2876) end with M.
Letter N
47.58% of words(89265) contain N.
10.63% of words(19953) contain NN.
2.56% of words(4803) start with N.
4.28% of words(8029) end with N.
Letter O
45.21% of words(84833) contain O.
11.37% of words(21341) contain OO.
3.33% of words(6239) start with O.
0.65% of words(1221) end with O.
Letter P
23.03% of words(43214) contain P.
2.89% of words(5420) contain PP.
8.43% of words(15820) start with P.
0.57% of words(1077) end with P.
Letter Q
1.44% of words(2702) contain Q.
0.01% of words(12) contain QQ.
0.47% of words(887) start with Q.
0% of words(7) end with Q.
Letter R
51.68% of words(96971) contain R.
10.26% of words(19243) contain RR.
5.83% of words(10935) start with R.
5.66% of words(10616) end with R.
Letter S
59.97% of words(112525) contain S.
19.04% of words(35718) contain SS.
11.12% of words(20861) start with S.
37.64% of words(70633) end with S.
Letter T
46.98% of words(88142) contain T.
10.29% of words(19313) contain TT.
5.08% of words(9524) start with T.
4.98% of words(9341) end with T.
Letter U
26.55% of words(49807) contain U.
2.5% of words(4687) contain UU.
2.92% of words(5485) start with U.
0.12% of words(222) end with U.
Letter V
8.27% of words(15509) contain V.
0.3% of words(557) contain VV.
1.61% of words(3023) start with V.
0.01% of words(26) end with V.
Letter W
6.73% of words(12633) contain W.
0.27% of words(507) contain WW.
2.21% of words(4143) start with W.
0.24% of words(447) end with W.
Letter X
2.66% of words(5000) contain X.
0.01% of words(16) contain XX.
0.08% of words(157) start with X.
0.22% of words(413) end with X.
Letter Y
13.81% of words(25921) contain Y.
0.6% of words(1119) contain YY.
0.34% of words(647) start with Y.
7.36% of words(13818) end with Y.
Letter Z
4% of words(7512) contain Z.
0.26% of words(496) contain ZZ.
0.34% of words(637) start with Z.
0.06% of words(112) end with Z.

TWL Scrabble word length statistics

The TWL 187630 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.

TWL Scrabble word score frequencies

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

TWL Scrabble word prefixes

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

TWL Scrabble word suffixes

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

Scrabble Tiles Distributions

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).

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.