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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!
What a super, automatic scrabble calculator… better than I hoped it would be!
this is awesome… wish I could load in a list of words tho
yes. i would. this does not account for words longer then 7 letters that go over multiple tripple/double word score and or tripple/double letter score
It dosnt account for an 8-letter word that hits 2 triple word scores
Did what I asked without any fuss.
well, it works… or at least I hope it works.. 😉 Nice 1
does what it says it will and is very simple. great work.
Very clever! Helped us settle an argument we had over a beer. I lost. 😉
i knew there had to be something like this, and there it was! …first hit in google…
It’s really great, but it’d be nice if you could give more than one double/triple letter score per word (since you can get that)
Super handy, thanks!
i use this for my homework sometimes or just for cheats against my brainy sister
cool 🙂
Very nice. Does this also work for the Dutch version of the Scrabble game?
This is an awesome calculator!
Hahaha, this is too good! Scrabble board domination?
Ya damn right!
Very cool calculator. How about the adding the ability to zero out a letter’s point value, as if using a blank scrabble tile?
This tool is what we where looking for long long time …
Thanks !
Heheh I love this program!! Helped me calculate and point out on an argument that the name of the opposite team had a lower value point, therefore my team was way more awesome.
This is just fun. =)
You Can tell how awesome a name is by the amount that it gets on scrabble 😛
Very cool and well-designed site! 🙂
Re: “Rate this tool!”
please dont call me a tool. 😀
(but a very useful gadget 5* – assuming a scale of 1(bad)-5(good))
Would it be possible to add the letter bonus squares too?
@Ian The blue ‘x2’ and ‘x3’ buttons under each letter tile should apply the appropriate letter bonus. The bonus is added in the calculation below the tiles. Is there another type of letter bonus that I’m missing?
Thanks for the feedback!
It would be great to somehow cross-link this with Twitter, so that I could see how much an individual Tweet scored.
Perhaps it would encourage people to be more esoteric in their tweets?
@Frank the SciencePunk: An interesting request! I’ll see what I can do 🙂
This is a great tool. I recommend making an Android application version.
Thanks.
@Samantha: Great idea! I definitely want to start creating mobile versions of this for iPhone, Android, etc. Thanks for the suggestion!
I got two double word scores in the same word and tried to figure out the score. The word is classier. The C and the E were on double word scores
I would like to find examples of scrabble words which score 36, 54 or 108. Can I do this using your site?
@bev This calculator calculates the score of a word as it is typed, not the other way around. It would be difficult to give a list of all the words that have scores of 36, 54 or 108, especially given all the double/triple options that are possible. I hope this answers your question!
I’ve link to this from WordsWithFriends.net. Thanks, Kate!
Would it be possible for you to add a dictionary function to this app? So that you could see whether a word was valid and the potential point value.
@JMitchell024@hotmail.com At one time there was a dictionary function but I removed it because it wasn’t very stable. I agree that it would definitely be a helpful feature. I’ll take a look at it again and see if I can make it work better than it did before. Thanks for the feedback; stay tuned!
@JMitchell024@hotmail.com You’ll be happy to know that I’ve added a dictionary check to the calculator! If you click the ‘Validate [word]’ button right underneath the ‘Reset’ button, your word will be checked against Dictionary.com and Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary. Check it out and let me know what you think. Thanks for the suggestion!
A Words With Friends fan website has linked to my Scrabble Calculator as one of its resources, along with 2-letter and 3-letter word lists. The site also hosts tournaments for the popular iPhone/iPad application based on Scrabble. Remember, if you are playing Words With Friends, make sure to select ‘Words With Friends’ as your language for the appropriate letter scoring distributions.
On Words with Friends, using all 7 tiles only nets you a 35-point bonus, not a 50-pointer. There should be a way to have a WWF bonus.
Hi! Thanks for your feedback. If you have Words with Friends selected as your “language,” it should give you a 35 point bonus. I did notice a bug that when the page first loads with WWF as the language, then it says it’s a 50 point bonus, but as soon as you start to enter your word it should say 35 point bonus and add the appropriate 35 points. I’ve fixed that display error, but the functionality should be the same.
Please let me know if you’re still having issues!
A brilliant piece of internet beautifullness.
How do you score when a word covers a pink premium square (the star) and also a red premium square? For example at the beginning of the game the word healings covers the double and red premium word squares and is also a 50 point work
Hi Marcia!
Thanks for your feedback. This is something that I noticed a while ago, but hadn’t fixed yet. The calculator was originally written with Scrabblegrams in mind, in which you would never have both a double and a triple word score at the same time. Therefore, I made the calculator so that you could only have one or the other. However, I later realized that the actual Scrabble game DOES allow for double and triple word scores at the same time.
I have now fixed this. Please let me know if you have any problems with it. And thanks again for your feedback! Enjoy.
Say, since you’re supporting WWF on your calculator, you might want to add a Quadruple word score. There are four opportunities on that board to achieve that in less than 8 letters.
Cheers!
Thanks Allen! You could calculate a quadruple word score by applying two double word scores. Just check the double word score box, and enter 2 into the text box. That should give the correct result, unless I don’t understand your suggestion. I hope that helps! Thanks again for the feedback.
Hey Kate.
Just to say a big thanks for the use of your calculator! Have been thinking of a sentance to spell out to my girlfriend that also adds up to the amount of months we’ve been together. Would have been a nightmare adding them up to get the right amount without your handy tool!
Cheers! Sim
You’re welcome! This is by far the best use of my calculator to date. I love hearing this!
My son has been using big words in our conversations for a while now. Just out of curiosity, I wondered what these big words were worth on Scrabble and stumbled onto your site (which I LOVE, BTW). He’s been using Difficult, Delicious, Delicate, Assistance, Beautiful, Vegetables, Herbs, and Curious just to name a few. My son celebrated his third birthday only two days ago.
I love hearing this! I’m glad my calculator could help you document your son’s incredible learning! 🙂
Hi I love Scrabble 🙂 to sum points I found nice App for iPhone http://apps.isimpleness.com/addscore/, what do you think guys ?
Hi Johny! That’s interesting–I downloaded the iPhone app, and it doesn’t actually calculate a word score. All it does is keep track of your score, but you still have to add up the letters yourself. Or was I using it wrong?
I started building an iPhone app version of my Scrabble Calculator, but I haven’t finished it yet!