About Word Checker
Settles the argument. Enter a word and find out whether it is in the dictionary, what it scores in both Scrabble and Words With Friends, and what else can be made from the same letters.
The two games use different tile values, which surprises people. QUIZ scores 22 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends, because the U is worth more in one than the other. Both numbers are shown.
Worth knowing before you settle a bet with it: this checks one large word list, and no single list is the final authority. Scrabble alone has two — Collins in most of the world, the NASPA Word List in the US and Canada — and they disagree about thousands of words.
How to use it
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Type the word
You get validity, both scores, and its anagrams.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this word valid in Scrabble?
- It tells you whether the word is in our list, which is a good guide but not an official ruling. Tournament Scrabble uses Collins Scrabble Words in most of the world and the NASPA Word List in the US and Canada, and the two differ on thousands of entries.
- Which dictionary does this use?
- Every solver here reads the same 228,320-word English word list, built from the English Speller Database and ENABLE. It is broader than the list any individual puzzle accepts, so it will surface valid-but-obscure words your game may reject — and it is not any game's official dictionary, so occasionally the reverse happens too. If you are checking a word that entered the language recently, treat a negative result with suspicion and confirm it in your game.
- Why do Scrabble and Words With Friends give different scores?
- The games assign different point values to several letters. QUIZ, for example, is 22 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends, because the two games value U differently.
- What does the unplayable-tiles warning mean?
- The word is valid but cannot be built from a standard tile set — usually because it needs more copies of a letter than the game provides.