ELĪs well as being the name of the letter L (you can play EM and EN as well), an EL is an elevated railroad. You can use DE as a synonym of "from" or "of." 8. BOĪmerican slang for a boy or best friend, and an exclamation used to frighten or surprise someone. ![]() BAīA is an old dialect word meaning "to kiss," but among Egyptologists it’s also the name given to a person’s immortal soul. You can play the names of all of the letters of the alphabet in Scrabble, including AR, ES, and TEE. ALĪnother name for the Indian mulberry tree, Morinda citrifolia. AGĪn abbreviation of agriculture, used in phrases like "ag college" and "ag school." 3. You can also play AI, the name of a species of three-toed sloth, and AE, a Scots variation of "one." 2. You’ll only score two points for the name of this rough and rubbly basaltic lava, but it’ll be a useful two points if you’re sitting with a rack full of vowels. All of the words listed here are included on both lists, and so are officially playable in any English language game. In the rest of the English-speaking world-including the UK and Australia- Scrabble players use the so-called SOWPODS list, which combines Merriam-Webster’s Official Scrabble Player’s Dictionary and the Official Scrabble Words list produced by The Chambers Dictionary. Note: In North America, all the words that are officially acceptable in a game of Scrabble are listed on the TWL or Official Tournament Word List. More than 100 two-letter words are acceptable in Scrabble 22 of the most unfamiliar and most bizarre of which are listed here. If you play the word DREAM directly beneath it, one letter below the other, then you’ll not only pick up points for using your D, R, E, A, and M, but you’ll also score for the words ED, AR, RE, TA, and HM that are formed between the two. So imagine, for instance, that your opponent has just played the word EARTH. ![]() But among competitive Scrabble players, two-letter words are a crafty means of boosting your score: Instead of linking one word perpendicularly to another, try playing one word directly on top of, alongside, or overlapping another on the board to form a chain of two-letter words between the two. In a race to use up your final few tiles at the end of the game, low-scoring pairs like AD, AS, AN, and AT can suddenly become unexpectedly useful. In Scrabble, two-letter words are often used only as a last resort.
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