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12 Common Words That Will Boost Your Scrabble Score

Scrabble lovers know the game is all about the bingos. Memorizing these twelve easy words compiled by our friends at opens in a new windowVocabulary.com will help you clear your rack and rack up points.

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Scrabble lovers know that the game's all-too-often elusive prize is the bingo—when a player uses all seven tiles at once to make a word.

Our friends at opens in a new windowVocabulary.com prepared this list of relatively common seven- and eight-letter words with high point totals. The fact that these words are somewhat familiar should make memorizing them that much easier, and your next game of Scrabble that much more winnable.

[Note: All point totals include the 50-point bonus for using all the tiles.]

  • opens in a new windowquixotic (76 points)
    not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic

  • opens in a new windowmaximize (78 points)
    make as big or large as possible

  • opens in a new windowwheezily (76 points)
    with a husky or whistling sound

  • opens in a new windowequalize (76 points)
    make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching

  • opens in a new windowchutzpah (77 points)
    (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity

  • opens in a new windowexorcize (76 points)
    expel through adjuration or prayers

  • opens in a new windowwhizbang (76 points)
    a small high-velocity shell that makes a whizzing sound followed by a bang when it hits; something very conspicuous or effective

  • opens in a new windowjezebel (75 points)
    a shameless impudent scheming woman

  • opens in a new windowsqueeze (75 points)
    press firmly

  • opens in a new windowjukebox (77 points)
    a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin

  • opens in a new windowflapjack (76 points)
    a pancake; a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

  • opens in a new windowquickly (75 points)
    with little or no delay

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To learn about more words with high Scrabble point totals and to add them to your vocabulary-learning program, see the full list of 20 words at opens in a new windowVocabulary.com.

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