About 8-Letter Words
Eight-letter words require finding that one perfect tile already on the board to complete your bingo. While challenging to play, they often hit premium squares and can score over 100 points.
This 8-letter word finder helps you discover words from your rack plus board letters. Enter your tiles and use wildcards for letters on the board. These longer words typically need an existing letter to play through.
Example search
Letters:
→SEAORIT+1
8-letter results:
TOASTIERASTEROIDROASTIES
Tips for finding 8-letter words
- •Scan the board for hooks — single letters you can build through to form eight-letter words.
- •Common hook letters are S, E, D, R, and Y at the ends of existing words.
- •Eight-letter words often contain prefixes like UN-, RE-, OUT- combined with common roots.
Quick facts
- •Eight-letter bingos score an average of 60-80 points including the 50-point bonus.
- •Adding a letter to a seven-letter word on the board is called 'hooking' or 'front/back hooking'.
- •Eight-letter words represent about 10% of the Scrabble dictionary.