Scrabble Players...words that often get challenged / bring in the points?

[masmdu]

I'm a terrrible speller but enjoy scrabble.

I have a few words in mind when I play that are great ones because they almost alway get a challenge from other players.

The #1 word that gets a challenge everytime is one of the few words with no vowels.

CWM -it's a valley.

Others?

[xray s]

1. Sublimibable

Note; this word is accepted under house rules in Crawford TX only.

[lazarus]

2. syzygy

nobody believes that one.

[masmdu]

3. good one but not enough "Y" tiles to make it

only 2 "Y"s

[lazarus]

9. use a blank

if you're not creative enough to cheat. :evilgrin:

[Tinoire]

4. zax qintar jo zeuxite

zax especially looks beautiful on a triple.

Happy Scrabble!

[geniph]

16. Dammit, you beat me to zax!

I love that one, it's won me a few games when used wisely (on a triple word score). We discovered that word when one of my brothers, who may be quasi-literate but is disgustingly lucky, simply used up his Z and X. We challenged, dug out the dictionary, and discovered a new word.

[prez_sux]

5. CWM??? isn't that an abbreviation?

... i thought abbreviations didn't count.

if it's a word, how the hell do you pronounce it?

[Pert_UK]

7. Looks Welsh to me.........if so, it would be pronounced "Cum"...

heh heh heh...he said "cum"....

As in Cwmry, one way of spelling Wales, in Welsh, along with Cymri, Kymry and others.....pronounced "Cumree".

P.

[BlueJazz]

6. Try BDELLIUM

...only word in the English language that starts with BD...
It's pronounced as dellium. For even more fun, ask your friends and co-workers to spell it.
Nobody ever gets it right!

[ArmchairActivist]

8. "Word Freak"

Have you read "Word Freak", by Stefan Fatsis? It's a look into the world of the competitve Scrabble player.

It's a pretty good read, actually, with tons of stuff about the game, the 'scene' and the people that inhabit it. You can learn about somebody's legendary bingo play of 'WATERZOOI' through two vertical hooks. Weird, intruiguing stuff.

-AA

[newyawker99]

11. Congrats ArmchairActivist!! 100 posts

A :toast: for your first milestone!! :-)

[SyracuseDemocrat]

10. Zek

It means an inmate of a Soviet labor camp.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

12. xu

it's a jewish coin. i'm serious! the x is worth like 10 points!

[short bus president]

13. Kwyjibo

defn: "a big, dumb, balding, North American ape, with no chin (and a short temper)."

;-)

[mrfrapp]

14. That's a Welsh word

I use to play scrabble quite seriously as a youth and deliberately memorised all the two letter and three letter words. I must admit though, that I don't remember cwm ever being allowed as it is the Welsh for valley and is thus deemed to be from a foreign language. As usual though, google proves me wrong.

http://phrontistery.50megs.com/scrabble3.html

Must be a recent addition :-)

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

15. those liars!

you can too use Xu! who they hell do they think they are? :D