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 it is used in some borrowed words. Zhuyin Chinese-language editions of Scrabble use these 100 tiles. The letter ㄙ ("S)" has no tile as it is almost exclusively used in the letter ㄕ (SH) in this edition. The letters ㄘ ("C)", ㄔ ("CH"), ㄈ ("F)", ㄎ ("K)", and ㄆ ("P)" are used in Zhuyin, but so infrequently that they have no tiles. Scrabble letter distributions 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,