While this is self-explanatory, players often count tiles at two different times: 1) before a game begins to ensure that there are 100 tiles; 2) near the end of the game, when knowing exactly how many [..]

An arrangement of words on the SCRABBLE® game board is said to be "open" when there are many places to play either bingos or other high-scoring words.

See "PREPRINTED TRACKING SHEET".

DLS: Double Letter Score. DWS: Double Word Score. TLS: Triple Letter Score. TWS: Triple Word Score. ?: The blank tile. The letter representing the blank is often highlighted in diagrams and underlined [..]

The alphabetic arrangement of a group of letters. Example: BEGNU is the alphagram of the word BEGUN.

A word that is spelled with the exact same letters as another word. Example: RIDES is an anagram of SIRED and vice versa.

See "EXTENSION PLAY'

See "HOOK'

Making a play that allows you to save the letters on your rack that will most likely help you score well next turn. This often means leaving an equal number of vowels and consonants.

Any word played that uses all seven letters on the rack, earning a bonus of 50 points.