Francophone Scrabble Francophone Scrabble Francophone Scrabble, or French-language Scrabble, is played by many thousands of amateurs throughout the world and the "Fédération internationale de Scrabble francophone" has more than 20,000 members. Just as in English, points are scored by playing valid words from the lettered tiles. In French there are 102 tiles - 100 lettered tiles and two blanks known as jokers. The official word list for Francophone Scrabble is L'Officiel du jeu Scrabble. There are two forms of competition Scrabble in French. "Scrabble classique", also known as "partie libre", is match play, as in the English-language game. Duplicate Scrabble is an
Scrabble letter distributions not allowed. 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. "K", "W", and "Y" are absent because they are only used in loanwords or, in the case of "Y", the digraph "NY". Blanks cannot be used to represent "K", "W", or "Y". There is a Catalan Scrabble clone which uses the same 21x21 board as Super Scrabble. Croatian-language Scrabble sets use the following 103 tiles: "Q", "W", "X" and "Y" are not included, as Croatian does