Editions of the word board game Scrabble in different languages have differing letter distributions of the tiles, because the frequency of each letter of the alphabet is different for every language. As a general rule, the rarer the letter, the more points it is worth.

Most languages use sets of 100 tiles, since the original distribution of 98 tiles was later augmented with two blank tiles. In tournament play, while it is acceptable to pause the game to count the tiles remaining in the game, it is not acceptable to mention how many tiles are remaining at any time. Several online tools exist for counting tiles during friendly play.

Official editions Scrabble editions listed in this section are officially licensed by Hasbro (for North America) or Mattel (for the rest of the world).

English (original) +English letter distribution(Point values down, number of tiles across) ×1 ×2 ×3 ×4 ×6 ×8 ×9 ×12 0 [blank] 1 L S U N R T O A I E 2 G D 3 B C M P 4 F H V W Y 5 K 8 J X 10 Q Z

+English letter distribution (Super) ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×6 ×7 ×8 ×10 ×13 ×15 ×16 ×24 0 [blank] 1 L U S I N R O T A E 2 G D 3 B P C M 4 V F W Y H 5 K 8 J X 10 Q Z English-language editions of Scrabble contain 100 letter tiles, in the following distribution:

2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: E ×12, A ×9, I ×9, O ×8, N ×6, R ×6, T ×6, L ×4, S ×4, U ×4 2 points: D ×4, G ×3 3 points: B ×2, C ×2, M ×2, P ×2 4 points: F ×2, H ×2, V ×2, W ×2, Y ×2 5 points: K ×1 8 points: J ×1, X ×1 10 points: Q ×1, Z ×1

The total number of points is 187. Diacritical marks (such as "ñ" in words borrowed from Spanish) are ignored.

When Alfred Butts invented the game, he initially experimented with different distributions of letters. A popular story claims that Butts created an elaborate chart by studying the front page of The New York Times to create his final choice of letter distributions.

In 2004, Super Scrabble was launched. For international distribution outside the United States and Canada, and under license from Mattel, the game is manufactured by Leisure Tends' Tinderbox Games; and, for distribution within the United States and Canada, under license from Hasbro, the game is manufactured by Winning Moves. This set is composed of 200 tiles:

4 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: E ×24, A ×16, O ×15, T ×15, I ×13, N ×13, R ×13, S ×10, L ×7, U ×7 2 points: D ×8, G ×5 3 points: C ×6, M ×6, B ×4, P ×4 4 points: H ×5, F ×4, W ×4, Y ×4, V ×3 5 points: K ×2 8 points: J ×2, X ×2 10 points: Q ×2, Z ×2

Super Scrabble contains more letters that are overlined and fewer letters that are underlined than would be obtained by combining two standard English sets.

Afrikaans

+Afrikaans letter distribution ×1 ×2 ×3 ×4 ×6 ×8 ×9 ×16 0 [blank] 1 D O R S T I N A E 2 H L G 3 K W 4 M U Y 5 P V 8 B F 10 J

The Afrikaans editions use these 102 tiles:

2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: E ×16, A ×9, I ×8, N ×8, D ×6, O ×6, R ×6, S ×6, T ×6 2 points: G ×4, H ×3, L ×3 3 points: K ×3, W ×3 4 points: M ×2, U ×2, Y ×2 5 points: P ×2, V ×2 8 points: B ×1, F ×1 10 points: J ×1

+Afrikaans letter distribution (original) ×1 ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×6 ×7 ×8 ×9 ×15 0 [blank] 1 U L R O S T N I A E 2 G D 3 M B P 4 F V W Y H 5 K 8 J

Circa 1953, the Production and Marketing Company had provided license to the private company Leon Toys of Johannesburg, South Africa in the manufacture and production of Scrabble. Alongside the English language version of Scrabble the company also produced the first Afrikaans language version of the game under the name Krabbel, an Afrikaans translation of "Scrabble". This language set of the game had the following 100 tiles:

2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: E ×15, A ×9, I ×8, N ×7, O ×6, S ×6, T ×6, R ×5, L ×4, U ×2 2 points: D ×6, G ×4 3 points: B ×2, P ×2, M ×1 4 points: H ×3, F ×2, V ×2, W ×2, Y ×2 5 points: K ×3 8 points: J ×1

Absent in both the original and standard set of Afrikaans are the letters C, Q, X, and Z. The infrequent X and Z may still be represented by the use of a blank, yet the letters C and Q, not used in Afrikaans but only in a few loanwords, may not be. Diacritical marks are ignored.

Arabic

+Arabic letter distribution ×2 ×3 ×4 ×8 0 [blank] 1 ﺡ ﺥ ﻡ ﻥ ﻩ ﻭ ي ‎ ﻝ ﺝ‎ ﺍ 2 ﺭ ﺩ ﺱ ث ‎ ت ﺏ 3 ﻑ ﻕ ﺫ ﺵ ﺯ 4 ﻁ ‎ ﺹ ﺽ ﻉ ﻙ 5 ﻅ 6 ﺉ 8 ﻍ ﺀ 10 ﺃ ﺅ

Arabic-language editions use the following 100 tiles:

2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: ﺍ‎ ×8, ﻝ‎ ×4, ﺝ‎ ×4, ﺡ‎ ×3, ﺥ‎ ×3, ﻡ‎ ×3, ﻥ‎ ×3, ﻩ‎ ×3, ﻭ‎ ×3, ي‎ ×3 2 points: ﺏ‎ ×4, ﺕ‎ ×4, ﺭ‎ ×3, ﺩ‎ ×3, ﺱ‎ ×3, ﺙ‎ ×3, 3 points: ﻑ‎ ×3, ﻕ‎ ×3, ﺫ‎ ×3, ﺵ‎ ×3, ﺯ‎ ×3 4 points: ﺹ‎ ×3, ﺽ‎ ×3, ﻉ‎ ×3, ﻙ‎ ×3, ﻁ‎ ×2, 5 points: ﻅ‎ ×2 6 points: ﺉ‎ ×2 8 points: ﻍ‎ ×2, ﺀ‎ ×2 10 points: ﺃ‎ ×2, ﺅ‎ ×2,

Although Arabic letters have up to four forms, Scrabble tiles use the isolated form. In some sets, as found in some Arabic-based alphabets that are not the standard modern Arabic, a dotless yeh (alif maqsura) may be used ى‎, and for the letter he the final form ‎ھ (heh doachashmee) may appear, as it is in some Arabic-based alphabets, as in Urdu, the isolated form of the letter. The pattern of using the isolated forms in composing words is also found in Arabic crosswords and in the Scrabble3D Persian Scrabble set and is one of the rare situations when Arabic letters are not connected to each other. The ligature لا is played as two individual tiles: ل and ا.

Bulgarian

+Bulgarian letter distribution ×1 ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×8 ×9 0 [blank] 1 Н П Р С Т Е И А О 2 Б К Л В Д М 3 Ъ Г 4 Ж З 5 Й Х Ч Я У 8 Ц Ш Ю 10 Ф Щ Ь

Bulgarian-language Scrabble sets, which use Cyrillic letters, use the following 102 tiles:

2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: А ×9, О ×9, Е ×8, И ×8, Т ×5, Н ×4, П ×4, Р ×4, С ×4 2 points: В ×4, Д ×4, М ×4, Б ×3, К ×3, Л ×3 3 points: Г ×3, Ъ ×2 4 points: Ж ×2, З ×2 5 points: У ×3, Ч ×2, Я ×2, Й ×1, Х ×1 8 points: Ц ×1, Ш ×1, Ю ×1 10 points: Ф ×1, Щ ×1, Ь ×1

Catalan

+Catalan letter distribution ×1 ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×6 ×8 ×12 ×13 0 [blank] 1 L U O T N I R S A E 2 C D M 3 B G P 4 F V 8 H J Q Z 10 Ç L·L NY X

+Catalan letter distribution (Super clone) ×1 ×2 ×3 ×5 ×6 ×7 ×8 ×10 ×12 ×16 ×17 ×19 ×25 ×27 0 [blank] 1 U L O T N R I S A E 2 C D M 3 B G P 4 F V 8 H J QU Z 10 NY X 12 Ç 15 L·L

Catalan-language editions use these 100 tiles:

2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: E ×13, A ×12, I ×8, R ×8, S ×8, N ×6, O ×5, T ×5, L ×4, U ×4 2 points: C ×3, D ×3, M ×3 3 points: B ×2, G ×2, P ×2 4 points: F ×1, V ×1 8 points: H ×1, J ×1, Q ×1, Z ×1 10 points: Ç ×1, L·L ×1, NY ×1, X ×1

The Catalan edition has special tiles for the C with cedilla Ç (), the ligature L·L representing the geminated L (), as well as the digraph NY. K, W, and Y are absent because they are only used in loanwords or, for Y, the digraph NY. Blanks cannot be used to represent K, W, or Y, which means that playing an N tile followed by a blank tile to form the digraph NY is not allowed, and loanwords containing K and W are simply not played. Official rules treat the Q tile as just one letter, but usually Catalan players use the Q tile like the QU digraph and all Catalan Scrabble Clubs use this de facto rule. While Ç is a separate tile, other diacritic marks are ignored.

There is a Catalan Scrabble clone which uses the same 21×21 board as Super Scrabble. It includes the following 200 tiles, with the Q tile replaced with the QU digraph, because Q in Catalan is never without a U after it, and with two of the special tiles, Ç and L·L, increased in value: 5 wild (asterisk) tiles scoring 0 points 1 point: E ×27, A ×25, S ×19, I ×17, R ×16, N ×12, O ×10, T ×10, L ×8, U ×6 2 points: M ×7, C ×5, D ×5 3 points: B ×3, G ×3, P ×3 4 points: F ×2, V ×2 8 points: H ×2, J ×2, QU ×2, Z ×2 10 points: NY ×2, X ×2 12 points: Ç ×2 15 points: L·L ×1

Croatian

+Croatian letter distribution ×1 ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×6 ×9 ×10 ×11 0 [blank] 1 J U R S T N E O I A 2 K M P V 3 B Č G L Z D 4 C H LJ NJ Š Ž 5 Ć 8 F 10 DŽ Đ

Croatian-language Scrabble sets use the following 103 tiles:

2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: A ×11, I ×10, E ×9, O ×9, N ×6, R ×5, S ×5, T ×5, J ×4, U ×4 2 points: K ×3, M ×3, P ×3, V ×3 3 points: D ×3, G ×2, L ×2, Z ×2, B ×1, Č ×1 4 points: C ×1, H ×1, LJ ×1, NJ ×1, Š ×1, Ž ×1 5 points: Ć ×1 8 points: F ×1 10 points: DŽ ×1, Đ ×1 Q, W, X and Y are not included, as Croatian does not use those letters. Playing D and Ž in place of DŽ and L or N in front of J in place of LJ and NJ respectively is not allowed.

Czech

+Czech letter distribution ×1 ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×6 0 [blank] 1 D K L P R I S T V A E N O 2 Á J Y Z C H Í M U 3 B É Ě 4 Č Ů Ž Ř Š Ý 5 F G Ú 6 Ň 7 Ó Ť 8 Ď 10 X

Czech-language sets use the following 100 tiles:

2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: O ×6, A ×5, E ×5, N ×5, I ×4, S ×4, T ×4, V ×4, D ×3, K ×3, L ×3, P ×3, R ×3 2 points: C ×3, H ×3, Í ×3, M ×3, U ×3, Á ×2, J ×2, Y ×2, Z ×2 3 points: B ×2, É ×2, Ě ×2 4 points: Ř ×2, Š ×2, Ý ×2, Č ×1, Ů ×1, Ž ×1 5 points: F ×1, G ×1, Ú ×1 6 points: Ň ×1 7 points: Ó ×1, Ť ×1 8 points: Ď ×1 10 points: X ×1

Q and W are absent because they are only used in loanwords, though Q and W can be played with a blank. X is also used only in loanwords, but it is more frequent than Q and W, so it is included. The digraphic letter CH does not appear in this edition and is not representable by the blank (joker); CH is instead played as two distinct letters C and H.

+Písmenkovka letter distribution ×1 ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×6 0 [blank] 1 N P T V Y I K L R E S A O 2 Á B D Í J M U 3 C H Š Z 4 Č CH Ř Ž 5 É Ů Ý Ě 6 Ň Ť Ú 8 Ď F G 10 Ó X

+Písmenkovka letter distribution (original) ×1 ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×6 ×7 0 [blank] 1 N P T V Y I K L R E S A O 2 Á B D Í J M U 3 C H Š Z 4 Č CH Ř Ž 5 É Ů Ý Ě 6 Ň Ť Ú 8 Ď F G 10 Ó

Prior to 1993, there was no official Czech Scrabble. Instead, there was a Scrabble clone called Pismenkovka which was created in the 1970s, which had a CH tile. Pismenkovka sets contain these tiles:

2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: A ×6, O ×6, E ×5, S ×5, I ×4, K ×4, L ×4, R ×4, N ×3, P ×3, T ×3, V ×3, Y ×3 2 points: M ×3, U ×3, Á ×2, B ×2, D ×2, Í ×2, J ×2 3 points: C ×2, H ×2, Š ×2, Z ×2 4 points: Č ×2, CH ×2, Ř ×2, Ž ×2 5 points: Ě ×2, É ×1, Ů ×1, Ý ×1 6 points: Ň ×1, Ť ×1, Ú ×1 8 points: Ď ×1, F ×1, G ×1 10 points: Ó ×1, X ×1

Originally this set did not include an X tile (because it is only used in loanwords) and instead had a seventh O tile.

KrisKros Klasik has a similar distribution, but it includes 4 T tiles and 2 X tiles.

Danish

+Danish letter distribution ×1 ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×6 ×7 ×9 0 [blank] 1 N R A E 2 D L O S T 3 F G M U V B I K 4 H J P Y Æ Ø Å 8 W X Z C Danish-language Scrabble sets use these 101 tiles:

2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: E ×9, A ×7, N ×6, R ×6 2 points: D ×5, L ×5, O ×5, S ×5, T ×5 3 points: B ×4, I ×4, K ×4, F ×3, G ×3, M ×3, U ×3, V ×3 4 points: H ×2, J ×2, P ×2, Y ×2, Æ ×2, Ø ×2, Å ×2 8 points: C ×2, W x1, X ×1, Z ×1

The distribution lacks Q, which is very rare and only occurs in foreign words. C, W, X, and Z also only occur in foreign words, but they are not so rare, so they were included. Q can be played with a blank. Prior to 2025, sets contained 100 tiles and did not include a W.

Dutch

+Dutch letter distribution #1 ×1 ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×6 ×10 ×18 0 [blank] 1 I A O N E 2 D R S T 3 B P G K L M 4 F H J V Z U 5 C W 8 X Y 10 Q

+Dutch letter distribution #1 (old) ×1 ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×6 ×10 ×18 0 [blank] 1 I A O N E 2 S D R T 3 B P G K L M 4 F H IJ J V Z U 5 C W 8 X Y 10 Q

+Dutch letter distribution #2 ×1 ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×6 ×8 ×16 0 [blank] 1 I A O N E 2 D R S T 3 B G K L M P 4 F H J V IJ Z U 5 C W 8 X 10 Q

+Dutch letter distribution #3 (original) ×1 ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×6 ×10 ×18 0 [blank] 1 S D A I O R T N E 2 H L G 3 B C M P 4 J K U V W 5 F 6 Z 8 X Y 10 Q Dutch-language editions consist of the following 102 tiles:

2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: E ×18, N ×10, A ×6, O ×6, I ×4 2 points: D ×5, R ×5, S ×5, T ×5 3 points: G ×3, K ×3, L ×3, M ×3, B ×2, P ×2 4 points: U ×3, F ×2, H ×2, J ×2, V ×2, Z ×2 5 points: C ×2, W ×2