Quick answer
What are the highest-scoring letters in Scrabble?
Quick answer
What are the highest-scoring letters in Scrabble?
In Scrabble, Q and Z are worth 10 points each, J and X are worth 8, K is worth 5, and F, H, V, W and Y are worth 4. Every vowel plus L, N, R, S and T is worth 1 point. Words With Friends uses a different table, where J and Z are worth 10, X is 8, and K is 5.
In more detail
Tile values are inversely related to usefulness by design: the rarer a letter is in English, the more it is worth and the harder it is to play. This is why a rack full of high-value tiles is often a bad rack.
The one-point letters are what actually win games. A, E, I, N, R, S and T are the letters that build long words, and holding a good spread of them is what sets up a bingo.
The S deserves special treatment. It is worth a single point but can pluralise an enormous share of the dictionary, so spending one for a few extra points is usually a poor trade.