find a word for scrabble

Find a word and a strategy

The main thing you do when playing a Scrabble is to find a word that will give you the highest amount of point. Well, I don't fully agree with my last sentence. When I play Scrabble, yes I try to find THE word that will empty my tray but most of the time, this is just impossible. So we need a little Scrabble strategy to prevent other players from scoring big. When you look at the Scrabble game board you can see the "special" square that gives more points when used. When it's your turn and you don't have anything good to put on the board, you need to play in a way that you will steal some precious spaces. So when you try to find a word for scrabble, always keep in mind that you might score big, but your opponent might score bigger if you don't think in advance.

Don't let another player put an easy hook on a bonus square. What that means is if you're about to make a word that ends up one bonus square short and that it is easy for another player to add a single letter on that bonus square to form a new word with your, that maybe you shouldn't play that word!

Here's a hook example where the Scrabble strategy would be to not put this word. Your word is "CODE" and the easy hook would be to add "X" to form "CODEX".

You would get 8 points for "CODE" (O is doubled) and the other Scrabble player, just by putting an extra letter would score 31 points. That 23 points more than you!

Word finder

When I play Scrabble with my girlfriend, we always end up arguing about the existence of a word, the spelling of it or what better word we could have made with what we had on our scrabble tray. So, if like me you want to save some time doing all that, I suggest you take a look at this website every time you are trying to find a word for Scrabble. They have a Scrabble word finder that takes the letter in your tray and try to build a word with some other letter from the board (specified by you). They also have a word verification tool that you can use to proof the existence of your exotic word.

My other Scrabble post

Scrabble cheat
Look out my scrabble ideas to help give this classic board game new twists. You will find some illustration of the board and how you can use existing letters to form new words but in a new way.