Comments on: 10 Words That Will Help You Win at Scrabble

By: Diane Smith

Diane Smith — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:03:28 +0000

Sorry, but according to the rules, nothing that must be capitalized can be used. Some of these would seem to be so.

By: Yonit

Yonit — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:19:00 +0000

It peeves me when people use words outside of English (if playing in English).

@Norman: Hebrew can’t be standardized in English letters since it has its own alphabet.

By: motorkitty

motorkitty — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:37:00 +0000

the 2009 scrabble desk calendar has all the acceptable 2-letter words on the page before January 1.
I once won a game with “ex”. no doubt the little words can be trouble!!
I love perusing the dictionary before playing and then seeing how many words I can actually end up using.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:34:00 +0000

Jen, “qi” and “za” are both legal in the US with the fourth-edition dictionary updates. However, both the Scrabble dictionary and the Hasbro Web site are expurgated and don’t have swear words and other offensive words that are actually game legal.

Annie, both “qadi” and “qaid” are allowed, but “qadi” is a Muslim judge, and “qaid” is a Muslim leader.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:53:00 +0000

Syzygy is when 3 celestial bodies are aligned such as during an eclipse.

By: catherine ann

catherine ann — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:55:00 +0000

I had a priest who loved to remind people that “pyx” is a good Scrabble word. It’s the container in which the Eucharistic bread is kept, for those non-Catholics out there.

By: annie

annie — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:31:00 +0000

I think that Qadi AND Qaid both work and mean the same thing.

By: Norman Eoff

Norman Eoff — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:08:00 +0000

Qoph = Hebrew letter

By: Cindy King

Cindy King — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:23:00 +0000

these are some great words to keep in mind. I wonder how well the online scrabble will take them.

I live in France and have played with bilingual people. We had a French to English and English to French dictionary and accepted both languages. It was funny when a word was started in French, changed to a different word in English, and then back to a new word in French.

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:03:00 +0000

If you play using the official British Scrabble Dictionary you can also have “Qi”. When I moved to America I specifically bought a British Scrabble Dictionary so that I could keep playing that.