25 Double-Letter Scrabble Words to Have in Your Back Pocket
The best Scrabble players are the strategic ones who keep adding words to their player vocabulary. Once you've mastered a number of two-letter words and the high-scoring ones (that are admittedly very difficult to play), start looking to double-letter words to take advantage of the multiples on your tile rack.
1. AGLOO
Don't have an I for IGLOO? Use an A for AGLOO, meaning an air hole through the ice made by a seal.
2. ALLEE
Instead of an ALLEY, use this double-double-lettered word meaning a tree-lined walkway.
3. BETTA
Rather than BETA, use that extra T to mean the freshwater fish.
4. BRATTICE
A BRATTICE now means a heavy curtain or barrier in a mine to help direct air flow, though the medieval meaning was simply a temporary partition along a wall.
5. DRESSAGE
The fanciest of all horse training and equestrian events, DRESSAGE is the obedience and discipline riding competition, rather than the racing.
6. FUGGY
To FUG is to make something stuffy or odorous, but its adjective form (FUGGY) and past and present participles (FUGGED, FUGGING) will take care of any extra Gs on the board.
7. GHYLL
Not only will GHYLL, which is a deep ravine, utilize a double-letter, but it will help if your tile bar is sorely lacking in vowels.
8. GRAAL
GRAAL is an older form of the word GRAIL, but it's also a technique used in glassblowing.
9. HEELER
Don't have an A for HEALER? A HEELER is a person who puts heels on shoes (as well as an Australian cattle dog).
10. HELLUVA
If you're having a HELLUVA time getting rid of a few letters, this nonstandard combination word is actually Scrabble-approved.
11. INNAGE
INNAGE is the quantity of goods remaining in a container when received after shipment.
12. LARRUP
To decisively defeat someone or trounce them is to LARRUP.
13. MAMMEE
Another double-double-letter word, a MAMMEE is species of tropical tree with large red fruit.
14. MOGGY
A MOGGY or MOGGIES (plural) is the cat equivalent of a mutt.
15. OLLA
A quick word to tack onto some common board letters, an OLLA is a wide-mouthed pot or jar.
16. OUTTELL
OUTTELL, OUTTELLS, and OUTTELLING all refer to speaking out or declaring something openly.
17. PERRON
A PERRON can refer to both large outdoor stairways or the stone platforms of certain columns and edifices.
18. PIGGERY
You're surely prepared with PIGGY, PIGGIE, and PIGGISH, but a PIGGERY is a pigpen.
19. QUASSIA
Score extra points with a well-place Q. A QUASSIA is another tropical tree whose bitter bark is sometimes used as a digestive aid or an insecticide.
20. SCABBLE
No, not Scrabble. SCABBLE means to shape roughly.
21. TIPPET
A TIPPET is a covering for the shoulders, or a ceremonial scarf worn by clergy.
22. TYPP
A TYPP (or TYPPS, plural) is a unit of yarn size. It's an acronym for thousand yards per pound.
23. VALLUM
The VALLUM was part of the defensive wall of earth and stone surrounding Roman camps.
24. WEEPIE
While WEEPY is an adjective for tending to weep, a WEEPIE is a very maudlin movie.
25. WELLY
According to the official Scrabble dictionary, WELLY is an acceptable form of WELLIE, the British rain boots.
This list was republished in April 2019.