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August 14, 2024

Letter distributions and languages

Scrabble, alphabet data, and playing in different ways

My partner and I play a lot of Scrabble. We’ve played at various formative moments throughout our relationship—even proposal day started off with play and bubbly.

Our Scrabble board collection currently consists of three languages: English, Spanish, and Dutch. Before I had played in a non-English language it had never occurred to me that—of course! there are different letter ratios based on the language!

Dutch & Spanish

A house rule of ours is that we can look and find words for our letters. I find it a fun way to discover new words, while also helping us when we’re stuck.

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