Scrabble of points for each lettered tile is based on the letter's frequency in standard English; commonly used letters such as vowels are worth one point, while less common letters score higher, with Q and Z each worth 10 points. The game also has two blank tiles that are unmarked and carry no point value. The blank tiles can be used as substitutes for any letter; once laid on the board, however, the choice is fixed. Other language sets use different letter set distributions with different point values. Tiles are usually made of wood or plastic and are square and thick,
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,