Thursday, May 22, 2008

Number of Words in Scrabble Dictionary

In OWL, there are 120,302 2 - 9 letter words equivalent to Scrabble Dictionary Third Edition.

In the Scrabble Dictionary Third Edition and Mike Baron's The Complete Wordbook For Game Players there are about 82,000 2 - 8 letter words.

A breakdown of words in Scrabble Dictionary Third Edition:

2 letters 96 1.2 82 word days
3 letters 960 11.7 82 word days
4 letters 3900 47.6 82 word days
5 letters 8600 104.9 82 word days
6 letters 15400 187.8 82 word days
7 letters 23600 287.8 82 word days
8 letters 29400 358.6 82 word days
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81956 999.6 82 word days

2, 3 and 4 letter words 75 percent of words formed 48 percent of total score
bingos 6 percent of words formed 28 percent of total score

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