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Validate in the Dictionary
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Read Scrabble scoring instructions
Each word formed in the play is scored this way:
- Any tile played from the player’s rack onto a previously vacant square that is a “double-letter” or “triple-letter” premium square has its point value doubled or tripled as indicated.
- Add the normal point value of all other letters (excluding blanks) in the word (whether newly played or existing).
- For each newly played tile placed on a “double-word” premium square, the total is doubled (or redoubled).
- For each newly placed tile placed on a “triple-word” premium square, the total is tripled (or re-tripled).
- Premium squares affect the score of each word made in the same play by constituent tiles played upon those squares. Premium squares, once played upon, are not counted again in subsequent plays.
If a player uses all seven of the tiles in the rack in a single play, a bonus of 50 points is added to the score of that play (this is called a “bingo” in Canada and the United States, and a “bonus” elsewhere). These bonus points are not affected by premium squares.
— from “Scrabble” on Wikipedia
Read about Scrabble letter distributions in different languages.
You may also be interested in a Words With Friends fan website, which hosts tournaments for the popular iPhone application and makes available popular 2-letter and 3-letter word lists.
April 2020 Update: I have added values for Sahibba, a Malay language board game similar to Scrabble.
May 2015 Update: I have added more vowels with diacritical marks (accents, umlauts, circumflexes, etc.) to the Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French alphabets. With diacritical marks, these letters have the same value as their unaccented counterparts and should be calculated as such.
April 2015 Update: I have added Portuguese to the language options.
August 2013 Update: Thanks to a user’s suggestion, I have added Estonian to the language options.
December 2011 Update: Thanks to the suggestion of Roman (see comments below), I have added a blank letter option in case you want to set a letter’s value to 0.
November 2011 Update: I have added another WordsWithFriends word validator, this time using the ENABLE word list that WWF uses. Just click the “Validate [word]” button to check to see if WWF will accept your word!
August 2011 Update: I have added a WordsWithFriends word validator to the calculator. When you click the “Validate [word]” button, it will also check the WordsWithFriends database and tell you if it is acceptable. Another new feature is the “cache”: Now when you enter a word, a button appears that says “add to cache.” Click this to add it to a cache of saved words; you can add as many words as you like to this cache, and it will calculate the running total. Click the ‘x’ to remove a word from the cache, and again, your total will be updated. This might be useful if you are trying to calculate the total of multiple words that intersect or border other words on the Scrabble board.
4/27/2010 Update: I have added a dictionary check to the calculator so that you can validate your word. Simply click the “Validate [word]” button just below the “Reset” button and your word will be checked against Dictionary.com and Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary. At this time, only English words are supported, so your language setting must be either English or Words With Friends.
4/2/2010 Update: I have added support for the popular iPhone app Words with Friends after discovering that the letter values in this game vary slightly from those in standard Scrabble. Just select Words with Friends as your “language” and your letter values should update appropriately. In addition, the bonus for using all 7 tiles in Words with Friends is only 35 points, as opposed to 50, and you will notice this change in the bonus checkbox.
12/11/2008 Update: Thanks to your brilliant suggestions, I have added some new features to the calculator:
- multiple double and triple letter scores within a word
- multiple double or triple word scores
- links to look up words on Dictionary.com and Wordnik.com
- support for multiple languages, including English, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian and German
Keep the great ideas coming, and enjoy!
Hey, this is a very handy tool, excellent.
This website is great. We used it last year to score our annual scabble tournament and plan to use it again this year. We ran into a slight problem while practicing just now, though. A mistake was made entering a word into the cache and was not caught until a few words later. When we tried to remove the word from the cache, nothing happened. The “x” the says (remove from cache) does not work. Is there any way this can be fixed by October 1st just in case we make a mistake during this years tournament? Thanks in advance.
I’m so glad you plan to use it again! I will definitely look into this issue and will hopefully have it resolved by October 1st. I’ll keep you posted!
Susan, this should be fixed. Please play around with it and let me know if you are still seeing problems. And thank you for catching this!
Nice calculator! Just one note: you misspelled German: it is not “Deutsche” but “Deutsch”
Thanks for the correction! 🙂
great site
I lost the word check component. How do I get it back
There have been some issues with the calculator lately, but the word validation component should be working again. Thanks for letting me know!
I don’t know whether it’s just me or if perhaps everybody else encountering problems with your website.
It appears as if some of the written text within
your posts are running off the screen. Can someone else please provide feedback and let me know if this
is happening to them as well? This might be a issue with my internet browser because I’ve had this happen previously.
Cheers
I’m sorry you’re having trouble with the site. Could you tell me which pages are causing problems and which browser and operating system you’re using? I’ll try to fix it asap.
Thanks for letting me know about this!
Kate,
Just found the Scrabble calculator and think it is fantastic. However, I was wondering why there was no way to continue maintaining the CACHE but be able to CLEAR a word and all of the selections made with it, i.e. triple word, double letter, etc.? I am using Windows 7 and IE.
Hi Cecelia,
It should be possible to remove a word from the cache. Just click the blue [X] on the left side of the box, next to the word in the cache. Let me know if that [X] isn’t showing up for you. I didn’t add option to remove just the selections (triple/double word/letter) because I didn’t see a big need for it, but if you think it would be really useful, I could try adding that feature.
Thanks for the feedback!
Kate
Hi Kate,
I am not looking to clear a word from the cache because I want to be able to maintain a running total. However, I do want to clear the word and all its selections, i.e. double, triple word and double, triple letter to begin entering a new word. By clearing the previous word and any selections I can then be sure I have not left any selections from the previously entered word which my not be valid.
Ah, I understand what you mean now. It’s a great request, and definitely a feature that should be added. I will work on it and will let you know when it’s done!
Thanks!
Hi Cecelia,
I added the feature to clear selections when you add a word to the cache. Test it out and let me know if you have any problems with it. Thanks again for the feedback!
This is so awesome and helpful!!!!!!
YOLO
Can you make the size of the sum bigger i had to zoom in to see it
Sure, that’s done!
The “validate in dictionary” doesn’t work as for every word it says “(word) is not a valid word according to Dictionary.com.”
This tool will come in handy. Thanks.
i love it
Nice tool, can you make it one for Android ? 😛
Thanks! Android version is on the list of things to do…stay tuned!
Thanks for the tool!