57 words you may not have known you could use in Scrabble

Like many PR Daily readers, I enjoy a friendly game of Scrabble now and then. Well, maybe “friendly” isn’t the best way to describe it. I’m actually a merciless Scrabble player.

It goes back to when I was 10 and playing Scrabble with my older sister. She wouldn’t let me put “zit” on the triple word score because she insisted “zit” wasn’t a word. Furious, I quit the game, flipped over the board, and swore I would never again play Scrabble with my sister.

For those who’ve had similar experiences playing Scrabble, here is a list of high scoring, Scrabble-acceptable words with links to their definitions. While you’re playing, you might as well boost your vocabulary, right?

Two-letter words

• Ex
• Jo
• Ki
• Xi

Three-letter words

• Bez
• Biz
• Coz
• Cuz
• Fez
• Fiz
• Jiz
• Kex
• Pyx
• Wiz
• Zek
• Zit

Four-letter words

• ​Chez
• Jeez
• Jeux
• Joky
• Mazy
• Qoph
• Whiz
• Zyme

Five-letter words

• Hamza
• Jacky
• Jammy
• Jiffy
• Jimpy
• Kudzu
• Kylix
• Quaff
• Quaky
• Woozy
• Zappy
• Zaxes
• Zilch
• Zinky
• Zippy

6-letter words

• Frowzy
• Hamzah
• Muzjik
• Schizy
• Quezal
• Zebeck
• Zincky

7-letter words

• Asphyxy
• Bezique
• Cazique
• Jezebel
• Jukebox
• Packwax
• Quetzal
• Squiffy
• Zinkify
• Zombify
• Zymurgy

More Scrabble-acceptable words are available at the Hasbro Scrabble Resource site. You can also check to see if a word is in the Scrabble dictionary at the Hasbro’s Scrabble tools site.

Any other words to add to the list?

This post was first published on Ragan Communication’s PR Daily.

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