Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
T is the 2nd most common letter in English at about 9.1% of all text. It is so prevalent that the three most common English words (THE, TO, THAT) all start with T. T is also part of the most common English digraph (TH) and appears at the end of a large fraction of English past-tense verbs (e.g., WENT, BURNT, DEALT).
In Scrabble, T is worth 1 point with 6 T tiles in the bag. T is critical for bingo building because T appears in many productive bingo stems: RETINA, STERN, MASTER. T is also valuable for extensions — many 6-letter words become 7-letter words by adding a T (RE-TAIN extended to RETAINS, etc.).
Productive T-prefixes include TRANS- (across — TRANSPORT, TRANSLATE), TRI- (three — TRIANGLE, TRIATHLON), TELE- (far — TELEPHONE, TELESCOPE), THERM- / THERMO- (heat — THERMAL, THERMOSTAT). T is the initial of many classic Anglo-Saxon function words: THE, THAT, THIS, THESE.
There are 14,565 English words in our list that start with T. As a share of the dictionary, that’s around 4.1%. English-wide, T shows up in roughly 9.1% of written text — the 2nd most common letter overall.
Ranked by Scrabble value, TRANQUILIZINGLY wins at 37 points. Landing it on a premium square boosts the score further. For reference, the T tile itself contributes 1 point.
TA is the shortest T-initial entry we have, at 2 letters. Tiny words like this are bread-and-butter for quick board plays — a single premium-square hit can score high without committing your bingo tiles.