Seven Letter Scrabble Words
If you love to play Scrabble, then you know seven letter Scrabble words bring you 50 points. Let’s look at the game of Scrabble and ways to come up with those seven letter words.
Seven Letter Scrabble Words
There are several sites online that can help you find seven letter Scrabble words.
Word Buff is very useful and interesting. The person who put together this list of the 100 words claims they are there are most likely seven letters to be drawn from a set of Scrabble tiles. 23 of the 100 are not allowed in North American Scrabble but are allowed elsewhere. Some of them, like “elation” and “toenail” are anagrams.
Common seven letter words include: agonise, atoners, detrain, entrail, erotica, granite, inertia, isolate, latrine, orients, retrains, retinal, routine, senator, stainer, stonier, tearing, trained, trainee, and treason.
Here are a few uncommon ones, along with their definitions:
- Aconite - poisonous herb
- Aileron - flap on an airplane wing
- Dariole - pastry shell
- Frasion - rubbing out
- Godetia - a plant
- Ingrate - person who is ungrateful
- Norites - a rock
- Ratines - fabrics
- Stearin - a fat’s solid parts
- Taurine - a chemical compound
- Uranite - a mineral
Another helpful site with seven letter Scrabble words is Homepage.NTL World.com. This site has lists of words according to how many letters they contain. Just to give you an idea, there are over 1000 seven letter Scrabble words that start with the letter A. Here is a sampling: abridge, abusive, academy, adrenal, adverse, agility, alcohol, anthrax, arrival, awesome, awkward, and azimuth.
Some other offerings on this site are words containing a certain letter or letters, like words beginning with “re” or “un”, and words ending with “ier”, “iest” and “ing”. They also have lists of words that can help you be a better Scrabble player. Some lists have words with all vowels, all consonants, and other combinations of letters.
The Game of Scrabble
Scrabble was invented by Alfred Butts in 1938 and was based on another game he invented called Lexiko. Scrabble was originally called Criss-Crosswords and unfortunately, Mr. Butts was not able to interest a major game manufacturer in it. James Brunot had purchased the game and, in 1948, bought the rights to it from Butts, promising a portion of the royalties. Brunot’s break came when the president of Macy’s played the game and ordered a large number of them. Brunot sold the rights to Selchow & Righter who later sold the rights to Coleco. When Coleco went bankrupt, Hasbro became the owner of Scrabble.
Scrabble was a TV show, can be found on many gaming systems, and is available online. The game is sold in 121 countries and there are 29 language versions. Over 150 million games have been sold in the world, with one out of three American households owning one.
The game board is a 15 x 15 grid. It is played with 2-4 players, who pick seven random tiles and basically make a crossword puzzle. Each word has to connect to another one. There are blanks on the grid for double and triple letter points and double and triple word points. The center starting square is a double word square. There are 100 tiles, and each letter has a point value.
The point value was determined by the frequency of the word, with the less frequent words getting more points. Here are those values:
Number of letters in a set of Scrabble tiles are: 9 As, 2 Bs, 2 Cs, 4 Ds, 12 Es, 2 Fs, 3 Gs, 2 Hs, 9 Is, 1 J, 1 K, 4 Ls, 2 Ms, 6 Ns, 8 Os, 2 Ps, 1 Q, 6 Rs, 4 Ss, 6 Ts, 4 Us, 2 Vs, 2 Ws, 1 X, 2 Ys, 1 Z, and 2 blanks (no value).Point values per letter are:
- A, E, I, O, U, L, N, R, S, T = 1
- D, G = 2
- B, C, M, P = 3
- F, H, V, W, Y = 4
- K = 5
- J, X = 8
- Q, Z = 10