Wordfeud helper
Wordfeud has its own tile values and its own bag, and most word finders quietly score it as Scrabble. This one uses the Wordfeud table, so the word at the top of the list is the one that actually pays best in the game in front of you.
- 104 tiles
- Two of them blanks, and not a single Z among the other 102
- 40 points
- The bonus for playing all seven tiles, between Scrabble's 50 and WWF's 35
- No challenges
- The app checks the word for you, so a wrong guess costs nothing
The Wordfeud bag, tile by tile
Compare this against the Scrabble table and the shape of the game becomes obvious. The cheap end is wider and deeper, which means more playable racks and fewer turns spent swapping.
| Value | Letters | Tiles in the bag |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Blank | 2 |
| 1 | E | 12 |
| 1 | A | 10 |
| 1 | I | 9 |
| 1 | O, T | 7 each |
| 1 | N, R | 6 each |
| 1 | S | 5 |
| 1 | L | 4 |
| 2 | D | 5 |
| 2 | U | 4 |
| 3 | G | 3 |
| 3 | M | 2 |
| 4 | H | 3 |
| 4 | B, C, F, P, V, W, Y | 2 each |
| 5 | K | 1 |
| 8 | X | 1 |
| 10 | J, Q | 1 each |
| — | Z | none in the bag |
The missing Z changes your reading
In Scrabble the Z is a ten-point prize you plan around. Here there is no Z to draw, so the ceiling on a single tile is the J or the Q. If you want a Z on the board you have to spend a blank on it, which costs you the flexibility a blank normally buys.
Ten As is a lot of As
Wordfeud has one more A than Scrabble and one more E than Words With Friends. Vowel-heavy racks are correspondingly more common, so the two-letter and three-letter vowel words matter even more here. The list is worth learning.
What Wordfeud rewards
Take the points, do not wait for the bonus
Forty points is a good turn, not a game-winning one. With a deeper bag of cheap letters you will get another chance at a full rack sooner than you would in Scrabble, so passing up a solid play to preserve six good tiles is usually the wrong trade here.
The six reweighted letters change your instincts
B, C, G, P and J all cost more here than in Scrabble, and U costs double. If you have carried Scrabble habits across, you are undervaluing exactly those tiles. JUMPING is worth 19 in Scrabble and 24 here, entirely because of the J, U, P and G.
The flip side is that those letters are dearer to hold and no better to play late. Spend them while the board is still open.
Play towards the middle
The Wordfeud board puts its highest multipliers in from the edges rather than at the corners, so the long diagonal lanes that decide Scrabble games are not really available. Expect the game to be decided by a cluster of overlapping plays near the centre.
Swap without guilt
No point penalty and a friendlier bag mean a swap is cheap. If your rack cannot make a word you would be pleased with, replace it and move on rather than grinding out six points for three turns.
The other board games
Same letters, three different answers. Worth opening the same rack in each.
- Scrabble 100 tiles, 50 bonus
- Words With Friends 104 tiles, 35 bonus
- Text Twist no board at all
- Word unscrambler everything at once
About Wordfeud
How is Wordfeud scored differently from Scrabble?
Six letters carry a different value. B and C are 4 rather than 3, G is 3 rather than 2, P is 4 rather than 3, J is 10 rather than 8, and U is 2 rather than 1. Everything else matches Scrabble exactly, which is why the two games feel so alike until you add up a word.
The bigger difference is the bag. Wordfeud uses 104 tiles against Scrabble's 100, with ten As, seven Os, seven Ts, five Ds, five Ss and three Hs. More of the useful letters means higher scoring games on average.
Is there really no Z in Wordfeud?
Not in the standard English tile set, no. The letter is perfectly legal to play with a blank, and Z words are valid, but there is no Z tile in the bag. That is genuinely surprising the first time you notice it and it changes which words are worth learning.
Our scoring still shows a value for Z, because a blank played as a Z scores nothing and you may be checking a word rather than a rack.
Which dictionary does Wordfeud use?
It depends which language you picked when you set the game up. Wordfeud offers both British and American English: British English runs on a Collins-based list, American English on something closer to TWL. If you are playing in the UK, choose British English and you are on Collins.
Our word list is the public-domain one, which sits closer to the American side, so it will find fewer words than your British English game accepts. The about page explains exactly what that means.
Can I be challenged in Wordfeud?
No. Like Words With Friends, the app validates a word before it lets you place it, so an invalid attempt costs nothing but a moment. That makes a solver purely a scoring tool here rather than a legality check.
How big is the bonus for using all seven tiles?
Forty points in Wordfeud, which sits between Scrabble's fifty and Words With Friends' thirty-five. Worth chasing, but not worth two wasted turns.