Scrabble letter distributions
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Many editions of the word board game
Scrabble
vary in the letter distribution of the tiles, because the frequency of each letter of the alphabet
is different for every language. As a general rule, the rarer the letter the more points it is worth.
Many languages use sets of 102 tiles, since the original distribution of one hundred tiles was later augmented with two blank tiles.
English
-language editions of Scrabble contain 100 letter tiles, in the following distribution:
This distribution of letters has not changed since Alfred Butts
invented the game in 1938.
A new Mattel
-licensed product, Super Scrabble
, was launched in 2004. This set comprises 200 tiles, in this distribution:
editions use these 102 tiles:
Afrikaans uses the letters Z and X, but so infrequently that there are no tiles for them in the standard set. A blank can still be used as a Z or an X. There are also no tiles for C and Q as these letters aren't used at all in Afrikaans, except for in a few loanwords.
Arabic
-language editions use the following 100 tiles:
Although Arabic letters have up to four different forms, Scrabble tiles only make use of the isolated form. This pattern of composing words is also found in Arabic crosswords and is one of the rare occurrences when Arabic letters are not connected to each other.
-language Scrabble sets, which use Cyrillic
letters, use the following 102 tiles:
Catalan
-language editions use these 100 tiles.
Accents
and diaereses
are ignored; for example, À is played as A. Nevertheless, there are special tiles for Catalan letters Ç (ce trencada
) and L·L (ela geminada), as well as the digraph NY. Playing an N tile followed by a blank tile to form the digraph NY is not allowed. Official rules treat the Q tile as just one letter, but usually Catalan players use the Q tile like the QU digraph and all Catalan Scrabble Clubs use this de facto rule.http://scrabble3mundial.wordpress.com/normes-generals/
-language Scrabble sets use the following 103 tiles:
Q, W, X and Y are not included, as Croatian does not use those letters.
-language sets use the following 100 tiles:
This distribution lacks Q and W, which are rare in the Czech language.
-language Scrabble sets use these 100 tiles.
This distribution lacks Q and W, which are rare in the Danish language.
-language editions consist of the following 102 tiles:
Prior to March 1998, there was a difference between the Dutch and the Flemish version: the Dutch version had 2 IJ
tiles with a value of 4 points. Furthermore, it had only 1 F and only 4 S tiles; and the face value of the G was only 2 points. The Flemish version never had IJ tiles, it was as described above. The Dutch version is now in line with the Flemish one. Instead of the
IJ letter
a combination of the I and J is now used.
-language sets use these 100 tiles:
Q,W, X, and Y are not present, since Esperanto does not use those letters. Esperanto Scrabble exists, but only as an Internet game (Rules for Esperanto scrabble). No commercially available sets have been made so far.
-language sets use these 100 tiles:
French
-language editions of Scrabble contain these 102 tiles:
Diacritical marks are ignored.
-language editions of Scrabble contain 102 letter tiles, in the following distribution:
Note that the letter ß
(Eszett) is not used. This is due to the fact that it does not exist as a capital letter in German. While a majuscule ß (see Capital ß
) has been established in the context of computing (Unicode), ß is replaced by SS when capitalizing, according to German orthography (e. g. Straße (street): STRASSE). However, the umlauts
Ä, Ö and Ü must not be replaced by AE, OE or UE when playing (as would usually be done in German crossword
s where ß is also replaced by SS). Other diacritics which may occur in some foreign words are ignored (é = E, œ = OE etc.)
Before 1989–1990, German sets had 119 tiles. Players had eight tiles at a time on their racks, as opposed to the standard seven today. The old letter distribution was:
-language editions of Scrabble contain 104 tiles.
sets use these 104 tiles:
In the set, the final form letters ך
, ם
, ן
, ף
and ץ
are not available and the normal form is used.
-language sets use these 100 tiles:
DZ and DZS
, which are fairly rare in Hungarian, have no tiles, nor do Q, W, X and Y, which are only used in loanwords, as part of the extended Hungarian alphabet
.
-language sets use these 104 tiles:
-language sets use these 100 tiles:
-language sets use these 120 tiles:
The letters J, K, W, X, and Y are absent since these letters are used only in loanwords.
-language "sets" use these 100 tiles:
Latin-language Scrabble is now commercially available from, inter alia, Amazon. The distribution listed above was developed by the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Toronto
.
-language sets (known as KrisKros Klasik) use these 104 tiles:
-language sets use these 100 tiles:
Notice Q, V and X are absent because they are only present in loanwords.
-language editions of Scrabble use these 100 tiles.
The letters Q, X and Z are absent since these letters are rarely used in Norwegian.
-language editions of Scrabble use these 100 tiles.
This set has been used since 2000. Before that year, a slightly different configuration was used: Ź was worth 7 points, F was worth 4 points. There were 2 F's, and 8 A's. The letters Q, V and X are also absent and blank tiles cannot be used to represent these.
-language editions of Scrabble contain 120 tiles.
While Ç is a separate tile, other diacritical marks are ignored. K, W, and Y are absent, since they are only present in loanwords in Portuguese.
-language editions of Scrabble use these 100 tiles.
Diacritical marks are ignored, so for example à and  are played as A.
-language Scrabble sets, which use Cyrillic
letters, contain 104 tiles using this distribution:
The former Russian distribution, 126 tiles until 1990, was as follows:
-language sets use these 100 tiles:
-language sets use these 100 tiles:
Spanish
-language sets sold outside North America use these 100 tiles:
Stress accents are disregarded. The letters K and W are absent since these two letters are rarely used in Spanish words. According to FISE (Federación Internacional de Scrabble en Español) rules, a blank cannot be used to represent K or W.
Using one C and one H tile in place of the CH tile, two L tiles for the LL tile, or two R tiles for the RR tile is also not allowed in Spanish Scrabble (see rules in Spanish provided by the FISE).
Spanish-language sets sold within North America (known as Scrabble - Edición en Español) use these 103 tiles:
Swedish
-language Scrabble sets (for a long time sold in Sweden as Alfapet
, but that is now a different game) use these 100 tiles:
Note that the letters Å, Ä, and Ö have separate tiles. Other diacritical marks are ignored, such as for É (Ü being an exception). Also, the letters Q and W, rare in Swedish, are absent, but can be played with a blank. The letters Ü and Æ require a blank and (as of 2010) only occur in one and three playable words respectively.
-language sets use these 100 tiles (note distinct dotted and dotless I
tiles):
The letters Q, W, and X are not used in Turkish and therefore do not appear in the set.
(see a completed Turkish Scrabble board).
Welsh
-language Scrabble sets use these 105 tiles:
Since there are specific tiles for the digraph
s that are considered to be separate letters in Welsh orthography (such as DD), it is not permissible to use the individual letters to spell these out. Diacritic
s on letters are ignored.
The digraph PH, which exists in Welsh, is omitted because it is used almost exclusively in mutated
words, which the rules disallow. K, Q, V, X and Z also do not exist in Welsh. Arguably J does not exist in Welsh either, but it is included as it is sometimes used for borrowed words.
Board game
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Scrabble
Scrabble
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works provide a list...
vary in the letter distribution of the tiles, because the frequency of each letter of the alphabet
Letter frequencies
The frequency of letters in text has often been studied for use in cryptography, and frequency analysis in particular. No exact letter frequency distribution underlies a given language, since all writers write slightly differently. Linotype machines sorted the letters' frequencies as etaoin shrdlu...
is different for every language. As a general rule, the rarer the letter the more points it is worth.
Many languages use sets of 102 tiles, since the original distribution of one hundred tiles was later augmented with two blank tiles.
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English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
-language editions of Scrabble contain 100 letter tiles, in the following distribution:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: E ×12, A ×9, I ×9, O ×8, N ×6, R ×6, T ×6, L ×4, S ×4, U ×4
- 2 points: D ×4, G ×3
- 3 points: B ×2, C ×2, M ×2, P ×2
- 4 points: F ×2, H ×2, V ×2, W ×2, Y ×2
- 5 points: K ×1
- 8 points: J ×1, X ×1
- 10 points: Q ×1, Z ×1
This distribution of letters has not changed since Alfred Butts
Alfred Mosher Butts
Alfred Mosher Butts was an American architect and the inventor of the board game Scrabble in 1938.-Personal life:...
invented the game in 1938.
A new Mattel
Mattel
Mattel, Inc. is the world's largest toy company based on revenue. The products it produces include Fisher Price, Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and Matchbox toys, Masters of the Universe, American Girl dolls, board games, and, in the early 1980s, video game consoles. The company's name is derived from...
-licensed product, Super Scrabble
Super Scrabble
Super Scrabble, introduced in 2004, is a variant of the board game Scrabble. In North America Super Scrabble is manufactured by Winning Moves Games, but licensed by Hasbro. In the rest of the world it is manufactured by Tinderbox Games under license from Mattel. Super Scrabble is available in...
, was launched in 2004. This set comprises 200 tiles, in this distribution:
- 4 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: E ×24, A ×16, O ×15, T ×15, I ×13, N ×13, R ×13, S ×10, L ×7, U ×7
- 2 points: D ×8, G ×5
- 3 points: C ×6, M ×6, B ×4, P ×4
- 4 points: H ×5, F ×4, W ×4, Y ×4, V ×3
- 5 points: K ×2
- 8 points: J ×2, X ×2
- 10 points: Q ×2, Z ×2
Afrikaans
AfrikaansAfrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
editions use these 102 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: E ×16, A ×9, I ×8, D ×6, N ×8, O ×6, R ×6, S ×6, T ×6
- 2 points: G ×4, H ×3, L ×3
- 3 points: K ×3, W ×3
- 4 points: M ×2, U ×2, Y ×2
- 5 points: P ×2, V ×2
- 8 points: B ×1, F ×1
- 10 points: J ×1
Afrikaans uses the letters Z and X, but so infrequently that there are no tiles for them in the standard set. A blank can still be used as a Z or an X. There are also no tiles for C and Q as these letters aren't used at all in Afrikaans, except for in a few loanwords.
Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
-language editions use the following 100 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles scoring 0 points
- 1 point: ﺍAleph* Aleph or Alef is the first letter of the Semitic abjads descended from Proto-Canaanite, Arabic alphabet, Phoenician alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Syriac alphabet-People:*Aleph , an Italo disco artist and alias of Dave Rodgers...
×8, ﻝLamedhLamed or Lamedh is the twelfth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Lamed and Arabic alphabet . Its sound value is .The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Lambda , Latin L, and Cyrillic Л.-Origins:...
×4, ﺝGimel (letter)Gimel is the third letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew , Syriac and Arabic...
×4, ﺡHeth (letter)' or ' is the reconstructed name of the eighth letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as Phoenician , Syriac , Hebrew ḥēth , Arabic , and Berber .Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal , or...
×3, ﺥKhaKha or Ha is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless velar fricative , like the Scottish pronunciation of ⟨ch⟩ in "loch".Kha is romanized as ⟨kh⟩.-History:...
×3, ﻡMemMem is the thirteenth letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic...
×3, ﻥNun (letter)Nun is the fourteenth letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet . It is the third letter in Thaana , pronounced as "noonu"...
×3, ﻩHe (letter)He is the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician , Aramaic, Hebrew , Syriac and Arabic . Its sound value is a voiceless glottal fricative ....
×3, ﻭWaw (letter)Waw is the sixth letter of the Northwest Semitic family of scripts, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic ....
×3, ﻯYodhYodh is the tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Yud , Syriac and Arabic...
×3 - 2 points: ﺏ ×4, ﺭReshResh is the twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet . Its sound value is one of a number of rhotic consonants: usually or , but also or in Hebrew....
×3, ﺕTaw (letter)Taw, Tav or Taf is the twenty-second and last letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Taw and Arabic alphabet .Its original sound value is ....
×4, ﺩDaletDalet is the fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew , Syriac and Arabic...
×3, ﺱShin (letter)Shin literally means "Sharp" ; It is the twenty-first letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician , Aramaic/Hebrew , and Arabic ....
×3, ﺙ ×3, - 3 points: ﻑPe (letter)Pe is the seventeenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Pei and Persian, Arabic ....
×3, ﻕQafQaf may mean:* Qāf , a letter in the Arabic alphabet.** the Surat Qaf of the Qur'an* Ka with descender , a letter in the Kazakh, Uzbek, and Abkhaz alphabets* Jabal Qaf or Mount Qaf, a mythical mountain according to Muslim tradition....
×3, ﺫDalDal is a preparation of pulses which have been stripped of their outer hulls and split. It also refers to the thick stew prepared from these, an important part of Indian, Nepali, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, and Bangladeshi cuisine...
×3, ﺵShin (letter)Shin literally means "Sharp" ; It is the twenty-first letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician , Aramaic/Hebrew , and Arabic ....
×3, ﺯZayinZayin is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician , Aramaic , Hebrew , Syriac and Perso-Arabic alphabet...
×3 - 4 points: ﺹTsade' is the eighteenth letter in many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew ' and Arabic ' . Its oldest sound value is probably , although there is a variety of pronunciation in different modern Semitic languages and their dialects...
×3, ﺽDADDAD is an abbreviation that may refer to:* D-A-D, a Danish rock band formerly known as "Disneyland After Dark"* Diode array detector, a type of detector in HPLC* Da Nang International Airport IATA airport code...
×3, ﻉAyin' or ' is the sixteenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic . It is the twenty-first letter in the new Persian alphabet...
×3, ﻙ ×3, ﻁTeth' is the ninth letter of many Semitic abjads , including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Tet , Syriac and Arabic ; it is 9th in abjadi order and 16th in modern Arabic order....
×2, - 5 points: ﻅ ×2
- 6 points: ﺉ ×2
- 8 points: ﻍGaynThe Arabic letter , commonly known in Egypt as , is one of the six letters in the Arabic alphabet not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet . It is the twenty second letter in the new Persian alphabet. It represents the sound or, in the case of Classical Arabic, . In Persian language...
×2, ﺀ ×2 - 10 points: ﺃ ×2, ﺅ ×2,
Although Arabic letters have up to four different forms, Scrabble tiles only make use of the isolated form. This pattern of composing words is also found in Arabic crosswords and is one of the rare occurrences when Arabic letters are not connected to each other.
Bulgarian
BulgarianBulgarian language
Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
-language Scrabble sets, which use Cyrillic
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
letters, use the following 102 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: А ×9, О ×9, Е ×8, И ×8, Т ×5, Н ×4, П ×4, Р ×4, С ×4
- 2 points: В ×4, Д ×4, М ×4, Б ×3, К ×3, Л ×3
- 3 points: Г ×3, Ъ ×2
- 4 points: Ж ×2, З ×2
- 5 points: У ×3, Ч ×2, Я ×2, Й ×1, Х ×1
- 8 points: Ц ×1, Ш ×1, Ю ×1
- 10 points: Ф ×1, Щ ×1, Ь ×1
Catalan
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
-language editions use these 100 tiles.
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: E ×13, A ×12, I ×8, R ×8, S ×8, N ×6, O ×5, T ×5, L ×4, U ×4
- 2 points: C ×3, D ×3, M ×3
- 3 points: B ×2, G ×2, P ×2
- 4 points: F ×1, V ×1
- 8 points: H ×1, J ×1, Q ×1, Z ×1
- 10 points: Ç ×1, L·L ×1, NY ×1, X ×1
Accents
Diacritic
A diacritic is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph. The term derives from the Greek διακριτικός . Diacritic is both an adjective and a noun, whereas diacritical is only an adjective. Some diacritical marks, such as the acute and grave are often called accents...
and diaereses
Umlaut (diacritic)
The diaeresis and the umlaut are diacritics that consist of two dots placed over a letter, most commonly a vowel. When that letter is an i or a j, the diacritic replaces the tittle: ï....
are ignored; for example, À is played as A. Nevertheless, there are special tiles for Catalan letters Ç (ce trencada
Cedilla
A cedilla , also known as cedilha or cédille, is a hook added under certain letters as a diacritical mark to modify their pronunciation.-Origin:...
) and L·L (ela geminada), as well as the digraph NY. Playing an N tile followed by a blank tile to form the digraph NY is not allowed. Official rules treat the Q tile as just one letter, but usually Catalan players use the Q tile like the QU digraph and all Catalan Scrabble Clubs use this de facto rule.http://scrabble3mundial.wordpress.com/normes-generals/
Croatian
CroatianCroatian language
Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...
-language Scrabble sets use the following 103 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×11, I ×10, E ×9, O ×9, N ×6, R ×5, S ×5, T ×5, J ×4, U ×4
- 2 points: K ×3, M ×3, P ×3, V ×3
- 3 points: D ×3, G ×2, L ×2, Z ×2, B ×1, Č ×1
- 4 points: C ×1, H ×1, LJ ×1, NJ ×1, Š ×1, Ž ×1
- 5 points: Ć ×1
- 8 points: F ×1
- 10 points: DŽ ×1, Ð ×1
Q, W, X and Y are not included, as Croatian does not use those letters.
Czech
CzechCzech language
Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
-language sets use the following 100 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: O ×6, A ×5, E ×5, N ×5, I ×4, S ×4, T ×4, V ×4, D ×3, K ×3, L ×3, P ×3, R ×3
- 2 points: C ×3, H ×3, Í ×3, M ×3, U ×3, Á ×2, J ×2, Y ×2, Z ×2
- 3 points: B ×2, É ×2, Ě ×2
- 4 points: Ř ×2, Š ×2, Ý ×2, Č ×1, Ů ×1, Ž ×1
- 5 points: F ×1, G ×1, Ú ×1
- 6 points: Ň ×1
- 7 points: Ó ×1, Ť ×1
- 8 points: Ď ×1
- 10 points: X ×1
This distribution lacks Q and W, which are rare in the Czech language.
Danish
DanishDanish language
Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...
-language Scrabble sets use these 100 tiles.
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: E ×9, A ×7, N ×6, R ×6
- 2 points: D ×5, L ×5, O ×5, S ×5, T ×5
- 3 points: B ×4, K ×4, I ×4, F ×3, G ×3, M ×3, U ×3, V ×3
- 4 points: H ×2, J ×2, P ×2, Y ×2, Æ ×2, Ø ×2, Å ×2
- 8 points: C ×2, X ×1, Z ×1
This distribution lacks Q and W, which are rare in the Danish language.
Dutch
DutchDutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
-language editions consist of the following 102 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: E ×18, N ×10, A ×6, O ×6, I ×4, R ×5
- 2 points: D ×5, S ×5, T ×5
- 3 points: G ×3, K ×3, L ×3, M ×3, B ×2, P ×2
- 4 points: U ×3, H ×2, J ×2, V ×2, Z ×2, F ×2
- 5 points: C ×2, W ×2
- 8 points: X ×1, Y ×1
- 10 points: Q ×1
Prior to March 1998, there was a difference between the Dutch and the Flemish version: the Dutch version had 2 IJ
IJ (letter)
The IJ is the digraph of the letters i and j. Occurring in the Dutch language, it is sometimes considered a ligature, or even a letter in itselfalthough in most fonts that have a separate character for ij the two composing parts are not connected, but are separate glyphs, sometimes slightly...
tiles with a value of 4 points. Furthermore, it had only 1 F and only 4 S tiles; and the face value of the G was only 2 points. The Flemish version never had IJ tiles, it was as described above. The Dutch version is now in line with the Flemish one. Instead of the
IJ letter
IJ (letter)
The IJ is the digraph of the letters i and j. Occurring in the Dutch language, it is sometimes considered a ligature, or even a letter in itselfalthough in most fonts that have a separate character for ij the two composing parts are not connected, but are separate glyphs, sometimes slightly...
a combination of the I and J is now used.
Esperanto
EsperantoEsperanto
is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...
-language sets use these 100 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points).
- 1 point: A ×8, E ×8, I ×8, O ×8, N ×6, R ×6, S ×6, L ×4, T ×4, U ×4
- 2 points: K ×4, M ×4, D ×3, J ×3, P ×3
- 3 points: F ×2, G ×2, ĜGG is the seventh letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet.-History:The letter 'G' was introduced in the Old Latin period as a variant of ⟨c⟩ to distinguish voiced, from voiceless, . The recorded originator of ⟨g⟩ is freedman Spurius Carvilius Ruga, the first Roman to open a fee-paying school,...
×2, V ×2 - 4 points: B ×2, ĈCĈ or ĉ is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing the sound .Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for all four of its postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets...
×2, C ×1, ŜSS is the nineteenth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.-History: Semitic Šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative . Greek did not have this sound, so the Greek sigma came to represent...
×1 - 5 points: Z ×1
- 8 points: H ×1, ŬUU is the twenty-first letter and a vowel in the basic modern Latin alphabet.-History:The letter U ultimately comes from the Semitic letter Waw by way of the letter Y. See the letter Y for details....
×1 - 10 points: ĤHH .) is the eighth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet.-History:The Semitic letter ⟨ח⟩ most likely represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative . The form of the letter probably stood for a fence or posts....
×1, ĴJĴ or ĵ is a letter in Esperanto orthography representing the sound .While Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for its four postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets, the base letters are Romano-Germanic...
×1
Q,W, X, and Y are not present, since Esperanto does not use those letters. Esperanto Scrabble exists, but only as an Internet game (Rules for Esperanto scrabble). No commercially available sets have been made so far.
Finnish
FinnishFinnish language
Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...
-language sets use these 100 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×10, I ×10, N ×9, T ×9, E ×8, S ×7
- 2 points: K ×5, L ×5, O ×5, Ä ×5
- 3 points: U ×4, M ×3
- 4 points: H ×2, J ×2, P ×2, R ×2, V ×2, Y ×2
- 7 points: D ×1, Ö ×1
- 8 points: B ×1, F ×1, G ×1
- 10 points: C ×1
French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
-language editions of Scrabble contain these 102 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: E ×15, A ×9, I ×8, N ×6, O ×6, R ×6, S ×6, T ×6, U ×6, L ×5
- 2 points: D ×3, G ×2, M ×3
- 3 points: B ×2, C ×2, P ×2
- 4 points: F ×2, H ×2, V ×2
- 8 points: J ×1, Q ×1
- 10 points: K ×1, W ×1, X ×1, Y ×1, Z ×1
Diacritical marks are ignored.
German
GermanGerman language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
-language editions of Scrabble contain 102 letter tiles, in the following distribution:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: E ×15, N ×9, S ×7, I ×6, R ×6, T ×6, U ×6, A ×5, D ×4
- 2 points: H ×4, G ×3, L ×3, O ×3
- 3 points: M ×4, B ×2, W ×1, Z ×1
- 4 points: C ×2, F ×2, K ×2, P ×1
- 6 points: Ä ×1, J ×1, Ü ×1, V ×1
- 8 points: Ö ×1, X ×1
- 10 points: Q ×1, Y ×1
Note that the letter ß
ß
In the German alphabet, ß is a letter that originated as a ligature of ss or sz. Like double "s", it is pronounced as an , but in standard spelling, it is only used after long vowels and diphthongs, while ss is used after short vowels...
(Eszett) is not used. This is due to the fact that it does not exist as a capital letter in German. While a majuscule ß (see Capital ß
Capital ß
Capital sharp s is the contestable majuscule of eszett. Sharp s is nearly unique among the letters of the Latin alphabet in that it has no traditional upper case form . This is because it never occurs initially in German text, and traditional German printing never used all-caps...
) has been established in the context of computing (Unicode), ß is replaced by SS when capitalizing, according to German orthography (e. g. Straße (street): STRASSE). However, the umlauts
Germanic umlaut
In linguistics, umlaut is a process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel. The term umlaut was originally coined and is used principally in connection with the study of the Germanic languages...
Ä, Ö and Ü must not be replaced by AE, OE or UE when playing (as would usually be done in German crossword
Crossword
A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or rectangular grid of white and shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer...
s where ß is also replaced by SS). Other diacritics which may occur in some foreign words are ignored (é = E, œ = OE etc.)
Before 1989–1990, German sets had 119 tiles. Players had eight tiles at a time on their racks, as opposed to the standard seven today. The old letter distribution was:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: E ×16, N ×10, I ×9, S ×8, R ×7, A ×6, U ×6, D ×6
- 2 points: H ×5, T ×5, C ×4, L ×4, O ×4, G ×3, W ×2
- 3 points: M ×4, F ×3, B ×2, Z ×2, K ×2
- 4 points: P ×1, V ×1
- 5 points: Ü ×1
- 6 points: Ä ×1, J ×1
- 8 points: Ö ×1, X ×1
- 10 points: Q ×1, Y ×1
Greek
GreekGreek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
-language editions of Scrabble contain 104 tiles.
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: ΑAlpha (letter)Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 1. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Aleph...
×12, ΟOmicronOmicron is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 70. It is rarely used in mathematics because it is indistinguishable from the Latin letter O and easily confused with the digit 0...
×9, ΕEpsilonEpsilon is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a close-mid front unrounded vowel . In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 5. It was derived from the Phoenician letter He...
×8, ΙIotaIota is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 10. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Yodh . Letters that arose from this letter include the Roman I and J and the Cyrillic І , Yi , Je , and iotified letters .Iota represents...
×8, ΤTauTau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300.The name in English is pronounced , but in modern Greek it is...
×8, ΗEta (letter)Eta ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet. Originally denoting a consonant /h/, its sound value in the classical Attic dialect of Ancient Greek was a long vowel , raised to in medieval Greek, a process known as itacism.In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 8...
×7, ΣSigmaSigma is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, and carries the 'S' sound. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 200. When used at the end of a word, and the word is not all upper case, the final form is used, e.g...
×7, ΝNu (letter)Nu , is the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 50...
×6 - 2 points: ΡRho (letter)Rho is the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 100. It is derived from Semitic resh "head"...
×5, ΚKappaKappa is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, used to represent the voiceless velar stop, or "k", sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 20. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Kaph...
×4, ΠPi (letter)Pi is the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing . In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 80. Letters that arose from pi include Cyrillic Pe , Coptic pi , and Gothic pairthra .The upper-case letter Π is used as a symbol for:...
×4, ΥUpsilonUpsilon is the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 400. It is derived from the Phoenician waw. The name of the letter is pronounced in Modern Greek, and in English , , or...
×4 - 3 points: ΛLambdaLambda is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals lambda has a value of 30. Lambda is related to the Phoenician letter Lamed . Letters in other alphabets that stemmed from lambda include the Roman L and the Cyrillic letter El...
×3, ΜMu (letter)Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo is a Grammy Award and three-time Latin Grammy Award winning-Colombian singer, composer and actor.-Biography:...
×3, ΩOmegaOmega is the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system, it has a value of 800. The word literally means "great O" , as opposed to omicron, which means "little O"...
×3 - 4 points: ΓGammaGamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Gimel . Letters that arose from Gamma include the Roman C and G and the Cyrillic letters Ge Г and Ghe Ґ.-Greek:In Ancient Greek, gamma represented a...
×2, ΔDelta (letter)Delta is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 4. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Dalet...
×2 - 8 points: ΒBeta (letter)Beta is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. In Ancient Greek, beta represented the voiced bilabial plosive . In Modern Greek, it represents the voiced labiodental fricative ....
×1, ΦPhi (letter)Phi , pronounced or sometimes in English, and in modern Greek, is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greek, it represents , a voiceless labiodental fricative. In Ancient Greek it represented , an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive...
×1, ΧChi (letter)Chi is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, pronounced as in English.-Greek:-Ancient Greek:Its value in Ancient Greek was an aspirated velar stop .-Koine Greek:...
×1 - 10 points: ΖZeta (letter)Zeta is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 7. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Zayin...
×1, Θ ×1, Ξ ×1, ΨPsi (letter)Psi is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet and has a numeric value of 700. In both Classical and Modern Greek, the letter indicates the combination /ps/ . The letter was adopted into the Old Italic alphabet, and its shape is continued into the Algiz rune of the Elder Futhark...
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Hebrew
HebrewHebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
sets use these 104 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: וWaw (letter)Waw is the sixth letter of the Northwest Semitic family of scripts, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic ....
×12, י ×10, תTaw (letter)Taw, Tav or Taf is the twenty-second and last letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Taw and Arabic alphabet .Its original sound value is ....
×9, הHe (letter)He is the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician , Aramaic, Hebrew , Syriac and Arabic . Its sound value is a voiceless glottal fricative ....
×8, רReshResh is the twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet . Its sound value is one of a number of rhotic consonants: usually or , but also or in Hebrew....
×8 - 2 points: א ×6, לLamedhLamed or Lamedh is the twelfth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Lamed and Arabic alphabet . Its sound value is .The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Lambda , Latin L, and Cyrillic Л.-Origins:...
×6, מMemMem is the thirteenth letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic...
×6, שShin (letter)Shin literally means "Sharp" ; It is the twenty-first letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician , Aramaic/Hebrew , and Arabic ....
×6 - 3 points: ד ×4, נNun (letter)Nun is the fourteenth letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet . It is the third letter in Thaana , pronounced as "noonu"...
×4 - 4 points: ב ×3, חHeth-People:* Children of Heth, a Canaanite nation in the Hebrew Bible, purportedly named after Heth, son of Canaan, son of Ham, son of Noah* figures in the Book of Mormon:** Heth , an early Jaredite** Heth a later Jaredite...
×3, פPe (letter)Pe is the seventeenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Pei and Persian, Arabic ....
×3, קQophQoph or Qop is the nineteenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet . Its sound value is an emphatic or . The OHED gives the letter Qoph a transliteration value of Q or a K and a final transliteration value as a ck...
×3 - 5 points: גGimel (letter)Gimel is the third letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew , Syriac and Arabic...
×2, כKaphKaph is the eleventh letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Kaf , Arabic alphabet , Persian alphabet...
×2, עAyin' or ' is the sixteenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic . It is the twenty-first letter in the new Persian alphabet...
×2 - 8 points: זZayinZayin is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician , Aramaic , Hebrew , Syriac and Perso-Arabic alphabet...
×1, טTeth' is the ninth letter of many Semitic abjads , including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Tet , Syriac and Arabic ; it is 9th in abjadi order and 16th in modern Arabic order....
×1, סSamekhSamekh or Simketh is the fifteenth letter in many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic, representing . The Arabic alphabet, however, uses a letter based on Phoenician šin to represent ; however, that glyph takes Samekh's place in the traditional Abjadi order of the Arabic...
×1, צTsade' is the eighteenth letter in many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew ' and Arabic ' . Its oldest sound value is probably , although there is a variety of pronunciation in different modern Semitic languages and their dialects...
×1
In the set, the final form letters ך
Kaph
Kaph is the eleventh letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Kaf , Arabic alphabet , Persian alphabet...
, ם
Mem
Mem is the thirteenth letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic...
, ן
Nun
A nun is a woman who has taken vows committing her to live a spiritual life. She may be an ascetic who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent...
, ף
Pe (letter)
Pe is the seventeenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Pei and Persian, Arabic ....
and ץ
Tsade
' is the eighteenth letter in many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew ' and Arabic ' . Its oldest sound value is probably , although there is a variety of pronunciation in different modern Semitic languages and their dialects...
are not available and the normal form is used.
Hungarian
HungarianHungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
-language sets use these 100 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points).
- 1 point: A ×6, E ×6, K ×6, T ×5, Á ×4, L ×4, N ×4, R ×4, I ×3, M ×3, O ×3, S ×3
- 2 points: B ×3, D ×3, G ×3, Ó ×3
- 3 points: É ×3, H ×2, SZHungarian szSz is a digraph of the Latin alphabet, used in Hungarian, Polish, Kashubian, and formerly in German.-Polish:In Polish orthography, sz represents a voiceless retroflex fricative , similar to English "sh"...
×2, V ×2 - 4 points: F ×2, GY ×2, J ×2, Ö ×2, P ×2, U ×2, Ü ×2, Z ×2
- 5 points: C ×1, Í ×1, NYHungarian nyNy is a digraph in a number of languages such as Catalan, Hungarian, Malay, and Ganda. In most of these languages, including all of the ones named above, it denotes the palatal nasal ....
×1 - 7 points: CS ×1, ŐDouble acute accentThe double acute accent is a diacritic mark of the Latin script. It is used primarily in written Hungarian, and consequently is sometimes referred to as Hungarumlaut, a portmanteau of Hungarian umlaut...
×1, Ú ×1, ŰDouble acute accentThe double acute accent is a diacritic mark of the Latin script. It is used primarily in written Hungarian, and consequently is sometimes referred to as Hungarumlaut, a portmanteau of Hungarian umlaut...
×1 - 8 points: LYHungarian lyLy is a digraph of the Latin alphabet, used in Hungarian.- Usage :Ly is the twentieth letter of the Hungarian alphabet. Its Hungarian name is ellipszilon or elly...
×1, ZS ×1 - 10 points: TY ×1
DZ and DZS
Hungarian dzs
Dzs is the eighth letter, and only trigraph, of the Hungarian alphabet. Its name is pronounced , and represents the sounds and .-Length:In several words, it is pronounced long, e.g....
, which are fairly rare in Hungarian, have no tiles, nor do Q, W, X and Y, which are only used in loanwords, as part of the extended Hungarian alphabet
Hungarian alphabet
The Hungarian alphabet is an extension of the Latin alphabet used for writing the Hungarian language.One sometimes speaks of the smaller and greater Hungarian alphabets, depending on whether or not the letters Q, W, X, Y are listed, which can only be found in foreign words and traditional...
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Icelandic
IcelandicIcelandic language
Icelandic is a North Germanic language, the main language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese.Icelandic is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic or Nordic branch of the Germanic languages. Historically, it was the westernmost of the Indo-European languages prior to the...
-language sets use these 104 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×10, I ×8, N ×8, R ×7, E ×6, S ×6, U ×6, T ×5
- 2 points: ÐEthEth is a letter used in Old English, Icelandic, Faroese , and Elfdalian. It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced with dh and later d. The capital eth resembles a D with a line through the vertical stroke...
×5, G ×4, K ×3, L ×3, M ×3 - 3 points: F ×3, O ×3, H ×2, V ×2
- 4 points: D ×2, Á ×2, Í ×2, ÞThorn (letter)Thorn or þorn , is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, and Icelandic alphabets, as well as some dialects of Middle English. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but was later replaced with the digraph th. The letter originated from the rune in the Elder Fuþark, called thorn in the...
×1 - 5 points: J ×1, ÆÆÆ is a grapheme formed from the letters a and e. Originally a ligature representing a Latin diphthong, it has been promoted to the full status of a letter in the alphabets of some languages, including Danish, Faroese, Norwegian and Icelandic...
×1 - 6 points: B ×1, É ×1, Ó ×1
- 7 points: Y ×1, Ö ×1
- 8 points: P ×1, Ú ×1
- 9 points: Ý ×1
- 10 points: X ×1
Irish
IrishIrish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
-language sets use these 100 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×13, H ×10, I ×10, N ×7, R ×7, E ×6, S ×6
- 2 points: C ×4, D ×4, L ×4, O ×4, T ×4, G ×3, U ×3
- 4 points: F ×2, M ×2, Á ×2, Í ×2
- 8 points: É ×1, Ó ×1, Ú ×1
- 10 points: B ×1, P ×1
Italian
ItalianItalian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
-language sets use these 120 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: O ×15, A ×14, I ×12, E ×11
- 2 points: C ×6, R ×6, S ×6, T ×6
- 3 points: L ×5, M ×5, N ×5, U ×5
- 5 points: B ×3, D ×3, F ×3, P ×3, V ×3
- 8 points: G ×2, H ×2, Z ×2
- 10 points: Q ×1
The letters J, K, W, X, and Y are absent since these letters are used only in loanwords.
Latin
LatinLatin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
-language "sets" use these 100 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: E ×12, A ×9, I ×9, V ×9, S ×8, T ×8, R ×7, O ×5
- 2 points: C ×4, M ×4, N ×4, D ×3, L ×3
- 3 points: Q ×3
- 4 points: B ×2, G ×2, P ×2, X ×2
- 8 points: F ×1, H ×1
Latin-language Scrabble is now commercially available from, inter alia, Amazon. The distribution listed above was developed by the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
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Latvian
Latvian language - sets use these 104 tiles:- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×11, E ×6, I ×9, R ×5, S ×8, T ×6, U ×5
- 2 points: Ā ×4, K ×4, M ×4, N ×4, L ×3, P ×3
- 3 points: D ×3, O ×3, V ×3, Z ×2
- 4 points: Ē ×2, Ī ×2, J ×2
- 5 points: B ×1, C ×1, G ×1
- 6 points: Ņ ×1, Š ×1, Ū ×1
- 8 points: Ļ ×1, Ž ×1
- 10 points: Č ×1, F ×1, Ģ ×1, H ×1, Ķ ×1
Lithuanian
LithuanianLithuanian language
Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...
-language sets (known as KrisKros Klasik) use these 104 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: I ×11, A ×9, R ×9, E ×6, L ×6, S ×6, O ×5, T ×5, U ×5, N ×4, Ą ×1
- 2 points: K ×4, D ×3, M ×3, P ×3, B ×2, G ×2, Ę ×1
- 3 points: Ė ×2, Š ×2, Ų ×1
- 4 points: J ×2, Į ×1, V ×1, Ž ×1
- 5 points: Ū ×1, Z ×1
- 6 points: Y ×1
- 7 points: C ×1, Č ×1
- 10 points: F ×1, H ×1
Malaysian
MalaysianMalaysian language
Malaysian or Standard Malay is the official language of Malaysia and a standardized form of the Malay language of the Austronesian family. It is over 80% cognate with Indonesian and is spoken natively by over 10 million people...
-language sets use these 100 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×19, N ×8, E ×7, I ×7, K ×6, U ×6, M ×5, R ×5, T ×5
- 2 points: L ×4, S ×4
- 3 points: G ×4, B ×3, D ×3
- 4 points: H ×2, O ×2, P ×2
- 5 points: J ×1, Y ×1
- 8 points: C ×1, W ×1
- 10 points: F ×1, Z ×1
Notice Q, V and X are absent because they are only present in loanwords.
Norwegian
NorwegianNorwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
-language editions of Scrabble use these 100 tiles.
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: E ×9, A ×7, N ×6, R ×6, S ×6, T ×6, D ×5, I ×5, L ×5
- 2 points: F ×4, G ×4, K ×4, M ×3, O ×4
- 3 points: H ×3
- 4 points: B ×3, U ×3, V ×3, J ×2, P ×2, Å ×2
- 5 points: Ø ×2
- 6 points: Y ×1, Æ ×1
- 8 points: W ×1
- 10 points: C ×1
The letters Q, X and Z are absent since these letters are rarely used in Norwegian.
Polish
PolishPolish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
-language editions of Scrabble use these 100 tiles.
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×9, I ×8, E ×7, O ×6, N ×5, Z ×5, R ×4, S ×4, W ×4
- 2 points: Y ×4, C ×3, D ×3, K ×3, L ×3, M ×3, P ×3, T ×3
- 3 points: B ×2, G ×2, H ×2, J ×2, Ł ×2, U ×2
- 5 points: Ą ×1, Ę ×1, F ×1, Ó ×1, Ś ×1, Ż ×1
- 6 points: Ć ×1
- 7 points: Ń ×1
- 9 points: Ź ×1
This set has been used since 2000. Before that year, a slightly different configuration was used: Ź was worth 7 points, F was worth 4 points. There were 2 F's, and 8 A's. The letters Q, V and X are also absent and blank tiles cannot be used to represent these.
Portuguese
PortuguesePortuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
-language editions of Scrabble contain 120 tiles.
- 3 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×14, E ×11, I ×10, O ×10, S ×8, U ×7, M ×6, R ×6, T ×5,
- 2 points: D ×5, L ×5, C ×4, P ×4
- 3 points: N ×4, B ×3, Ç ×2
- 4 points: F ×2, G ×2, H ×2, V ×2
- 5 points: J ×2
- 6 points: Q ×1
- 8 points: X ×1, Z ×1
While Ç is a separate tile, other diacritical marks are ignored. K, W, and Y are absent, since they are only present in loanwords in Portuguese.
Romanian
RomanianRomanian language
Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...
-language editions of Scrabble use these 100 tiles.
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×11, I ×10, E ×9, R ×7, T ×7, N ×6, U ×6, C ×5, O ×5, S ×5, L ×4
- 2 points: D ×4, P ×4
- 4 points: M ×3
- 8 points: F ×2, V ×2
- 9 points: B ×2, G ×2
- 10 points: H ×1, J ×1, X ×1, Z ×1
Diacritical marks are ignored, so for example à and  are played as A.
Russian
RussianRussian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
-language Scrabble sets, which use Cyrillic
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
letters, contain 104 tiles using this distribution:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: ОO (Cyrillic)O is a letter of the Cyrillic script.O commonly represents the close-mid back rounded vowel , like the pronunciation of ⟨o⟩ in "go".-History:The Cyrillic letter O was derived from the Greek letter Omicron ....
×10, АA (Cyrillic)A is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents an open front unrounded vowel , like the pronunciation of ⟨a⟩ in "father".The Cyrillic letter A is romanized using the Latin letter A.-History:...
×8, ЕYe (Cyrillic)Ye is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. In some languages this letter is called E.It commonly represents the vowel or , like the pronunciation of ⟨e⟩ in "yes".Ye is romanized using the Latin letter E....
×8, ИI (Cyrillic)I is a letter used in almost all ancient and modern Cyrillic alphabets.It commonly represents the close front unrounded vowel , like the pronunciation of ⟨i⟩ in "machine", or the near-close near-front unrounded vowel , like the pronunciation of ⟨i⟩ in "bin".-History:The Cyrillic letter I was...
×5, НEn (Cyrillic)En is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the alveolar nasal consonant , like the pronunciation of ⟨n⟩ in "nice".-History:The Cyrillic letter En was derived from the Greek letter Nu ....
×5, РEr (Cyrillic)Er is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the alveolar trill , like the "rolled" sound in the Scottish pronunciation of ⟨r⟩ in "curd".-History:...
×5, СEs (Cyrillic)Es is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of ⟨s⟩ in "sand".-History:...
×5, ТTe (Cyrillic)Te is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar plosive , like the pronunciation of ⟨t⟩ in "tick".-History:...
×5, ВVe (Cyrillic)Ve is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiced labiodental fricative , like the pronunciation of ⟨v⟩ in "very"....
×4 - 2 points: ДDe (Cyrillic)De is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.De commonly represents the voiced dental plosive , like the pronunciation of ⟨d⟩ in admit.De is romanized using the Latin letter D.-History:...
×4, КKa (Cyrillic)Ka is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless velar plosive , like the pronunciation of ⟨k⟩ in "king".-History:...
×4, ЛEl (Cyrillic)El is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.El commonly represents the alveolar lateral approximant , like the pronunciation of ⟨l⟩ in "lip".-Form:...
×4, ПPe (Cyrillic)Pe is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless bilabial plosive , like the pronunciation of ⟨p⟩ in "pack".-History:...
×4, УU (Cyrillic)U is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It commonly represents the close back rounded vowel , somewhat like the pronunciation of ⟨oo⟩ in "boot"...
×4, МEm (Cyrillic)Em is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.Em commonly represents the bilabial nasal consonant , like the pronunciation of ⟨m⟩ in "him".It is derived from the Greek letter Mu ....
×3 - 3 points: БBe (Cyrillic)Be is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It commonly represents the voiced bilabial plosive , like the English pronunciation of ⟨b⟩ in "bee"...
×2, ГGe (Cyrillic)Ge is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It is also known in some languages as He. In Unicode this letter is called "Ghe".It commonly represents the voiced velar plosive , like the pronunciation of ⟨g⟩ in "go"....
×2, ЬSoft signThe soft sign , also known as yer, is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short front vowel. As with its companion, the back yer, the vowel phoneme it designated was later partly dropped and partly merged with other vowels...
×2, ЯYa (Cyrillic)Ya is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, the civil script variant of Old Cyrillic Little Yus . Among modern Slavonic languages it is used by Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian to represent both the combination in initial or post-vocalic position and after a palatalised consonant; in...
×2, ËYo (Cyrillic)Yo is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. In Unicode, the letter ⟨Ё⟩ is named CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER IO.It commonly represents the sounds , like the pronunciation of ⟨Yo⟩ in "York"....
×1 - 4 points: ЫYeryYery or Yeru is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the phoneme after non-palatalised consonants in the Belarusian and Russian alphabets...
×2, ЙShort IShort I is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve.Short I represents the palatal approximant , like the pronunciation of ⟨y⟩ in toy....
×1 - 5 points: ЗZe (Cyrillic)Ze is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiced alveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of ⟨z⟩ in "zoo".Ze is romanized using the Latin letter ⟨z⟩....
×2, ЖZhe (Cyrillic)Zhe is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiced postalveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of ⟨s⟩ in "treasure".Zhe is romanized as ⟨zh⟩ or ⟨ž⟩.-History:...
×1, Х ×1, ЦTse (Cyrillic)Tse is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of ⟨ts⟩ in "cats".In English, Tse is commonly romanized as ⟨ts⟩...
×1, ЧChe (Cyrillic)Che or Cha is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of ⟨ch⟩ in "change"....
×1 - 8 points: ШShaFor other uses, see Sha .Sha is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of ⟨sh⟩ in "sheep", or the somewhat similar voiceless retroflex fricative . It is used in every variation of the Cyrillic alphabet, for Slavic and...
×1, ЭE (Cyrillic)E , also known as Backwards E from , E oborotnoye, is a letter found amongst Slavonic languages only in Russian and Belarusian, representing the sounds and...
×1, ЮYu (Cyrillic)Yu is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. After a palatalized consonant, it represents the close back rounded vowel , somewhat like the pronunciation of ⟨oo⟩ in "boot"; elsewhere it is a so-called iotated vowel representing the combination , like the pronunciation of ⟨you⟩ in "youth"...
×1 - 10 points: Ф ×1, Щ ×1, ЪYerThe letter yer of the Cyrillic alphabet, also spelled jer or er, is known as the hard sign in the modern Russian and Rusyn alphabets and as er golyam in the Bulgarian alphabet...
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The former Russian distribution, 126 tiles until 1990, was as follows:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: ОO (Cyrillic)O is a letter of the Cyrillic script.O commonly represents the close-mid back rounded vowel , like the pronunciation of ⟨o⟩ in "go".-History:The Cyrillic letter O was derived from the Greek letter Omicron ....
×11, ЕYe (Cyrillic)Ye is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. In some languages this letter is called E.It commonly represents the vowel or , like the pronunciation of ⟨e⟩ in "yes".Ye is romanized using the Latin letter E....
×10, ИI (Cyrillic)I is a letter used in almost all ancient and modern Cyrillic alphabets.It commonly represents the close front unrounded vowel , like the pronunciation of ⟨i⟩ in "machine", or the near-close near-front unrounded vowel , like the pronunciation of ⟨i⟩ in "bin".-History:The Cyrillic letter I was...
×10, НEn (Cyrillic)En is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the alveolar nasal consonant , like the pronunciation of ⟨n⟩ in "nice".-History:The Cyrillic letter En was derived from the Greek letter Nu ....
×6, АA (Cyrillic)A is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents an open front unrounded vowel , like the pronunciation of ⟨a⟩ in "father".The Cyrillic letter A is romanized using the Latin letter A.-History:...
×9, РEr (Cyrillic)Er is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the alveolar trill , like the "rolled" sound in the Scottish pronunciation of ⟨r⟩ in "curd".-History:...
×6, ТTe (Cyrillic)Te is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar plosive , like the pronunciation of ⟨t⟩ in "tick".-History:...
×6, СEs (Cyrillic)Es is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of ⟨s⟩ in "sand".-History:...
×5, ВVe (Cyrillic)Ve is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiced labiodental fricative , like the pronunciation of ⟨v⟩ in "very"....
×5 - 2 points: ДDe (Cyrillic)De is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.De commonly represents the voiced dental plosive , like the pronunciation of ⟨d⟩ in admit.De is romanized using the Latin letter D.-History:...
×4, КKa (Cyrillic)Ka is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless velar plosive , like the pronunciation of ⟨k⟩ in "king".-History:...
×4, ЛEl (Cyrillic)El is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.El commonly represents the alveolar lateral approximant , like the pronunciation of ⟨l⟩ in "lip".-Form:...
×4, МEm (Cyrillic)Em is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.Em commonly represents the bilabial nasal consonant , like the pronunciation of ⟨m⟩ in "him".It is derived from the Greek letter Mu ....
×4, ПPe (Cyrillic)Pe is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless bilabial plosive , like the pronunciation of ⟨p⟩ in "pack".-History:...
×4, УU (Cyrillic)U is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It commonly represents the close back rounded vowel , somewhat like the pronunciation of ⟨oo⟩ in "boot"...
×4 - 3 points: ЯYa (Cyrillic)Ya is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, the civil script variant of Old Cyrillic Little Yus . Among modern Slavonic languages it is used by Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian to represent both the combination in initial or post-vocalic position and after a palatalised consonant; in...
×4, БBe (Cyrillic)Be is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It commonly represents the voiced bilabial plosive , like the English pronunciation of ⟨b⟩ in "bee"...
×3, ГGe (Cyrillic)Ge is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It is also known in some languages as He. In Unicode this letter is called "Ghe".It commonly represents the voiced velar plosive , like the pronunciation of ⟨g⟩ in "go"....
×3, ËYo (Cyrillic)Yo is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. In Unicode, the letter ⟨Ё⟩ is named CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER IO.It commonly represents the sounds , like the pronunciation of ⟨Yo⟩ in "York"....
×3, ЬSoft signThe soft sign , also known as yer, is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short front vowel. As with its companion, the back yer, the vowel phoneme it designated was later partly dropped and partly merged with other vowels...
×2 - 4 points: ЫYeryYery or Yeru is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the phoneme after non-palatalised consonants in the Belarusian and Russian alphabets...
×2, ЙShort IShort I is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve.Short I represents the palatal approximant , like the pronunciation of ⟨y⟩ in toy....
×2 - 5 points: ЖZhe (Cyrillic)Zhe is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiced postalveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of ⟨s⟩ in "treasure".Zhe is romanized as ⟨zh⟩ or ⟨ž⟩.-History:...
×2, ЗZe (Cyrillic)Ze is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiced alveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of ⟨z⟩ in "zoo".Ze is romanized using the Latin letter ⟨z⟩....
×2, Х ×1, ЦTse (Cyrillic)Tse is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of ⟨ts⟩ in "cats".In English, Tse is commonly romanized as ⟨ts⟩...
×1, ЧChe (Cyrillic)Che or Cha is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of ⟨ch⟩ in "change"....
×1 - 8 points: ШShaFor other uses, see Sha .Sha is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of ⟨sh⟩ in "sheep", or the somewhat similar voiceless retroflex fricative . It is used in every variation of the Cyrillic alphabet, for Slavic and...
×1, ЭE (Cyrillic)E , also known as Backwards E from , E oborotnoye, is a letter found amongst Slavonic languages only in Russian and Belarusian, representing the sounds and...
×1, ЮYu (Cyrillic)Yu is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. After a palatalized consonant, it represents the close back rounded vowel , somewhat like the pronunciation of ⟨oo⟩ in "boot"; elsewhere it is a so-called iotated vowel representing the combination , like the pronunciation of ⟨you⟩ in "youth"...
×1 - 10 points: Ф ×1, Щ ×1, ЪYerThe letter yer of the Cyrillic alphabet, also spelled jer or er, is known as the hard sign in the modern Russian and Rusyn alphabets and as er golyam in the Bulgarian alphabet...
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Slovak
SlovakSlovak language
Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...
-language sets use these 100 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×9, O ×9, E ×8, I ×5, N ×5, T ×4, R ×4, S ×4, V ×4
- 2 points: M ×4, K ×3, L ×3, D ×3, P ×3
- 3 points: J ×2, U ×2
- 4 points: B ×2, H ×1, Y ×1, Z ×1, Á ×1, C ×1
- 5 points: Č ×1, Ž ×1, Š ×1, Í ×1, Ý ×1
- 7 points: Ľ ×1, Ť ×1, É ×1, Ú ×1
- 8 points: Ď ×1, F ×1, G ×1, Ň ×1, Ô ×1
- 10 points: Ĺ ×1, Ŕ ×1, X ×1, Ä ×1, Ó ×1
Slovenian
SlovenianSlovenian language
Slovene or Slovenian is a South Slavic language spoken by approximately 2.5 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia. It is the first language of about 1.85 million people and is one of the 23 official and working languages of the European Union...
-language sets use these 100 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: E ×11, A ×10, I ×9, O ×8, N ×7, R ×6, S ×6, J ×4, L ×4, T ×4
- 2 points: D ×4, V ×4
- 3 points: K ×3, M ×2, P ×2, U ×2
- 4 points: B ×2, G ×2, Z ×2
- 5 points: Č ×1, H ×1
- 6 points: Š ×1
- 8 points: C ×1
- 10 points: F ×1, Ž ×1
Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
-language sets sold outside North America use these 100 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×12, E ×12, O ×9, I ×6, S ×6, N ×5, L ×4, R ×5, U ×5, T ×4
- 2 points: D ×5, G ×2
- 3 points: C ×4, B ×2, M ×2, P ×2
- 4 points: H ×2, F ×1, V ×1, Y ×1
- 5 points: CH ×1, Q ×1
- 8 points: J ×1, LL ×1, Ñ ×1, RR ×1, X ×1
- 10 points: Z ×1
Stress accents are disregarded. The letters K and W are absent since these two letters are rarely used in Spanish words. According to FISE (Federación Internacional de Scrabble en Español) rules, a blank cannot be used to represent K or W.
Using one C and one H tile in place of the CH tile, two L tiles for the LL tile, or two R tiles for the RR tile is also not allowed in Spanish Scrabble (see rules in Spanish provided by the FISE).
Spanish-language sets sold within North America (known as Scrabble - Edición en Español) use these 103 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×11, E ×11, O ×8, S ×7, I ×6, U ×6, N ×5, L ×4, R ×4, T ×4
- 2 points: C ×4, D ×4, G ×2
- 3 points: M ×3, B ×3, P ×2
- 4 points: F ×2, H ×2, V ×2, Y ×1
- 6 points: J ×2
- 8 points: K ×1, LL ×1, Ñ ×1, Q ×1, RR ×1, W ×1, X ×1
- 10 points: Z ×1
Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
-language Scrabble sets (for a long time sold in Sweden as Alfapet
Alfapet
Alfapet used to be the Swedish name for the well-known word game Scrabble. Most Swedes still think that Alfapet is the name of the original game, even if it is now a slightly different game....
, but that is now a different game) use these 100 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×8, R ×8, S ×8, T ×8, E ×7, N ×6, D ×5, I ×5, L ×5
- 2 points: O ×5, G ×3, K ×3, M ×3, H ×2
- 3 points: Ä ×2, F ×2, V ×2
- 4 points: U ×3, B ×2, Ö ×2, P ×2, Å ×2
- 7 points: J ×1, Y ×1
- 8 points: C ×1, X ×1
- 10 points: Z ×1
Note that the letters Å, Ä, and Ö have separate tiles. Other diacritical marks are ignored, such as for É (Ü being an exception). Also, the letters Q and W, rare in Swedish, are absent, but can be played with a blank. The letters Ü and Æ require a blank and (as of 2010) only occur in one and three playable words respectively.
Turkish
TurkishTurkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
-language sets use these 100 tiles (note distinct dotted and dotless I
Turkish dotted and dotless I
The Turkish alphabet, which is a variant of the Latin alphabet, includes two distinct versions of the letter I, one dotted and the other dotless. The difference between the two versions is modelled after the letters Ö and Ü, which were taken from German. These two letters represent front-vowel...
tiles):
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×12, E ×8, İ ×7, K ×7, L ×7, R ×6, N ×5, T ×5
- 2 points: I ×4, M ×4, O ×3, S ×3, U ×3
- 3 points: B ×2, D ×2, Y ×2, Ü ×2
- 4 points: C ×2, Ş ×2, Z ×2, Ç ×2
- 5 points: H ×1, P ×1, G ×1
- 7 points: F ×1, V ×1, Ö ×1
- 8 points: Ğ ×1
- 10 points: J ×1
The letters Q, W, and X are not used in Turkish and therefore do not appear in the set.
(see a completed Turkish Scrabble board).
Welsh
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
-language Scrabble sets use these 105 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: A ×10, E ×8, N ×8, I ×7, R ×7, Y ×7, D ×6, O ×6, W ×5, DD ×4
- 2 points: F ×3, G ×3, L ×3, U ×3
- 3 points: S ×3, B ×2, M ×2, T ×2
- 4 points: C ×2, FF ×2, H ×2, TH ×2
- 5 points: CH ×1, LL ×1, P ×1
- 8 points: J ×1
- 10 points: NG ×1, RH ×1
Since there are specific tiles for the digraph
Digraph (orthography)
A digraph or digram is a pair of characters used to write one phoneme or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined...
s that are considered to be separate letters in Welsh orthography (such as DD), it is not permissible to use the individual letters to spell these out. Diacritic
Diacritic
A diacritic is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph. The term derives from the Greek διακριτικός . Diacritic is both an adjective and a noun, whereas diacritical is only an adjective. Some diacritical marks, such as the acute and grave are often called accents...
s on letters are ignored.
The digraph PH, which exists in Welsh, is omitted because it is used almost exclusively in mutated
Welsh morphology
The morphology of the Welsh language shows many characteristics perhaps unfamiliar to speakers of English or continental European languages like French or German, but has much in common with the other modern Insular Celtic languages: Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Cornish, and Breton. Welsh is a...
words, which the rules disallow. K, Q, V, X and Z also do not exist in Welsh. Arguably J does not exist in Welsh either, but it is included as it is sometimes used for borrowed words.