Many families have a box of Scrabble in their drawers… This board game, first published in 1948, has established itself as a classic of the genre, and not just in France. The giants Hasbro and Mattel market it in no less than 121 countries! For generations, it has brought young and old together, as long as you know how to read, around one principle: form as many words as possible, on a grid, with the letters that have been distributed to us.

Often, games of Scrabble are also an opportunity to discover new pearls of the language, or even the scene of fiery debates around the spelling of a complex word…

To win, everyone has their own strategy: some prefer to string together short and simple words, others prefer to rack their brains and flatten out long, complex words, to grab as many points as possible in a single round. Because, obviously, some letters in the game offer more points than others. In French, these are those that are more rarely found in everyday language: for example, X, W, Z, Y…

Also, if you are part of the “short words” team, nothing prevents you from making a big splash with these easy-to-use little words:

They will earn you 22 points. However, if you’re aiming for a bigger win, discover in our slideshow the words that can earn you up to 49 points in a single spin, according to the media Femmes d’Aujourd’hui and the site scrabble-triche.fr