101 Ways to Win at Scrabble: Top tips for Scrabble success. Barry Grossman
Just as you can use six-letter stems to help you remember lots of useful seven-letter words, you can take seven-letter stems and use them to find eight-letter words. About half of all bonus words played are eight-letter words – you can’t afford to neglect them.
Let’s take a rack like AEGILNR; you may be able to play one of the seven-letter words it makes – ALIGNER, ENGRAIL (decorate a coin), LAERING (from laer, make a circle with wagons), LEARING, NARGILE (another name for hookah), REALIGN, REGINAL (queenly). But if it’s the sort of board that’s more amenable to eight-letter bonuses, it’s good to be able to call on the likes of these:
| +A: | GERANIAL used in (lemony) perfume |
| REGALIAN regal | |
| +B: | BLEARING |
| +C: | CLEARING |
| RELACING | |
| +D: | DANGLIER |
| DEARLING darling | |
| +E: | ALGERINE woollen cloth |
| +F: | FINAGLER one who finagles, achieves their ends via trickery |
| +G: | REGALING |
| LAGERING the act of creating a lager | |
| +H: | NARGHILE |
| NARGILEH other words for hookah | |
| +I: | GAINLIER |
| +J: | JANGLIER |
| +L: | ALLERGIN |
| +M: | MALINGER |
| GERMINAL | |
| +N: | LEARNING |
| +O: | REGIONAL |
| GERANIOL used in (rosy) perfumes | |
| +P: | GRAPLINE |
| PEARLING | |
| +R: | GNARLIER |
| +S: | REALIGNS |
| SALERING enclosure for livestock at market | |
| +T: | ALERTING |
| TERAGLIN Australian fish | |
| +V: | RAVELING |
| +X: | RELAXING |
| +Y: | RELAYING |
| YEARLING |
For most casual players, the letter that fills them with more dread than any other is the Q. Needing a U to be able to use it with any ‘normal’ word, it can leave you effectively playing with six tiles (removing any chance of a bonus, of course) or force a change and miss a go. So thank QI there are words with Q but no U, and as they are so crucial to getting rid of this rather unwanted letter, we should take a look at some of the most useful:
FAQIR worldly-posession-spurning Muslim
FIQH Islamic jurisprudence
INQILAB revolution (in India, Pakistan)
MBAQANGA South African pop music
NIQAB, NIQAAB veil worn by some Muslims
QABALA, QABALAH, QABALISM, QABALIST ancient
Jewish mystical tradition QADI Muslim judge
QAID Arabic chief
QALAMDAN writing case
QANAT irrigation channel
QASIDA Arabic verse form
QAT African shrub
QAWWAL from QAWWALI
QAWWALI Islamic song
QI life force
QIBLA direction of Mecca
QIGONG exercise regime
QIN Chinese instrument
QINDAR, QINDARKA, QINTAR, QINTARKA Albanian coin
QOPH Hebrew letter
QORMA same as KORMA
QWERTY
SHEQALIM plural of SHEQEL
SHEQEL Monetary unit of Israel
TALAQ Muslim form of divorce
TRANQ
TSADDIQ, TZADDIQ Hasidic Jewish leader
WAQF endowment in Muslim law
YAQONA Polynesian shrub
All of these can have an S added to them except
QINDARKA, QINTARKA and SHEQALIM, and
QWERTY can have the plural QWERTIES or
QWERTYS.
The big one is, paradoxically, the smallest one – QI. With an I on your rack, or usable on the board, the Q should no longer be a major problem to get rid of.
Scrabble has always allowed American spellings – more than ever since we incorporated their word list into ours a few years ago. So have no fear about playing COLOR or TRAVELED (as against the British TRAVELLED). Americans are also keen on prefixes like ANTI-, giving words like ANTICOLD, ANTIMAN and ANTIRIOT, and CO-, whence we get COWRITE, CODRIVE and COMANAGE.
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