Sneaky Scrabble WordsFor People Who Play To Win
Suppose near the end of a close game, you are leading by a small margin and decide to block the board to prevent your opponent from going out with a big score.To do this, you place a C in an awkward position 'knowing' that your opponent cannot make a parallel play. To your dismay, however, your opponent places their H under the C to form CH, for just enough points to devastate your plans! The problem here was that although you knew it was time to play defensively and block the board, you did not realize that the board was not really blocked because you did not know the word CH (a Scottish personal pronoun). The lesson to take away is this... Scrabble strategy sits on top of word knowledge, and therefore you must know lots of weird and wonderful Scrabble words before you worry about fine-tuning your strategic game. In other words, although both components of the game are very important, word knowledge is more urgent because strategy depends on it. But what exactly are all the words allowed in Scrabble? I'm glad you asked... Official Scrabble WordsJust what constitutes an allowable word in Scrabble can vary from place to place. Fortunately, you only have to worry about two of those places: North America, and the Rest of the World (United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and so on).Why? Because there are two owners of the Scrabble trademark, and each one has its own official word list. Your decision then is pretty simple... Here is where you can find a dictionary of all  And here is where you can get yourself a dictionary of all  Of course, if you want to play Scrabble online, or enter an international tournament, you might want to get your hands on a copy of both of these tomes. As always, there's a bit more to it than this. For more information you can read my Official Scrabble Word List (Long Version). Scrabble Word ListsIf you're serious about winning at Scrabble, no matter how strategically brilliant you might be, you simply must sit down at some stage and learn hundreds (preferably thousands!) of words.The best way to do this is to organize words into lists, each of which should have some kind of strategic importance. So here are some lists of very important Scrabble words to get you started. Each of the following links will take you to a page of useful words with a preamble explaining why you should learn them...  Collins Scrabble Words (CSW12)Words with a Q that is not followed by a U Cool Scrabble WordsWell, I did call this page 'Scrabble Words from AA to ZZZ', so...Let's get a feel for the sorts of weird and wonderful words that are allowed in Scrabble. Below is a list containing an interesting and unusual Scrabble word for each letter of the alphabet. I'll give a brief definition here, but if I've talked about a word in more detail elsewhere at Word-Buff I'll format the word as a link...
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