# Best Scrabble word: **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2001, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scrabble-word/49314 "2001-01-10T12:19:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scrabble-word/49314/21 "2001-01-11T17:20:38Z")
> [@](#): > > the handful of two-letter words allowed Eh??? šŸ˜• ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scrabble-word/49314/22 "2001-01-11T21:25:55Z")
**Duke** is correct: aa is the coolest scrabble word. Just because no one who doesnā€™t play scrabble or live in Hawaii or is a geology expert will believe itā€™s a word. The coolest words are words that people donā€™t believe. My favorite among these is ā€œkarstā€. I TOLD them what it means before they challenged it, but they didnā€™t believe me. Hah, hah, hahhhhh, suckers! ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scrabble-word/49314/23 "2001-01-11T21:48:46Z")
I think **Mjollnir** meant two-letter/double vowel words. Maybe. Iā€™ve used LIBERTY and either FIZZLE or FIZZLES (needed a blank). Those two were both worth good points, but it was 3 years ago, so Iā€™m not sure how much. Iā€™d love to use QUIXOTIC some time. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scrabble-word/49314/24 "2001-01-12T02:36:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lemur866 \* > \*\ ***Duke** is correct: aa is the coolest scrabble word. Just because no one who doesnā€™t play scrabble or live in Hawaii or is a geology expert will believe itā€™s a word. Hmmmā€¦Iā€™ve never been to Hawaii, Iā€™m not a geologist, and almost never play Scrabble (the ā€œbyzantineā€ incident was an aberration), but I knew what ā€œaaā€ meant. (Of course, Iā€™m also the guy who gets lots of definitions right in Balderdash.) Of course, I seem to recall using ā€œpahoehoeā€ in that same game of Scrabbleā€“what else can you do with 2 "H"s and a rack full of vowels? ā€œAaā€ is the coolest Scrabble word Iā€™ve seen, though. ---
**Author:** ![TheThill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheThill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheThill)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scrabble-word/49314/25 "2001-01-12T11:38:01Z")
The two-letter words are fine in human games, but has anyone else tried the Scrabble computer game? The computer treats all the words in its dictionary equally and therefore seems to play _only_ with obscure 2- and 3-letter words. It gets tedious after a while. ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scrabble-word/49314/26 "2001-01-13T08:54:35Z")
Balance ā€“ oh, great, so now I HAVE to like you! That really sucks! But I HAVE to like you. Yeah, yeah, your name has been forwarded to my minions but Iā€™m not too happy about it. I think itā€™s cheap and unfair but Gosh-darn-it-all those are the rulesā€¦ šŸ™‚ For my own part? I got a great score on DINNERā€¦ I think I hit the R and got like double word score on the D and triple word score overallā€¦ I just remember really getting a beating after that word; hey, my family plays hard ball Scrabble! šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scrabble-word/49314/27 "2001-01-13T18:48:38Z")
I like **kudzu** as a Scrabble word. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scrabble-word/49314.md?page=1)