Scrabble Word Scorer is a tool for calculating Scrabble points for words. It supports multiple languages including English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian with language-specific letter values.
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{
"status": "ok",
"error": null,
"data": {
// Scrabble Word Scorer response payload
}
}
About the Scrabble Word Scorer API
Scrabble Word Scorer works by analyzing each letter in the word and assigning points based on official Scrabble letter values for the specified language. Returns total score, letter breakdown, highest scoring letter, and average letter score.
What people use it for
- Game Development
- Integrate Scrabble scoring into word game applications and puzzles
- Word Analysis
- Analyze word values and letter distribution for game strategy and optimization
- Educational Tools
- Create learning tools for teaching Scrabble and word game strategies
- Score Verification
- Verify Scrabble scores during gameplay across multiple language variants
Ways to call it
One endpoint, many ways in — REST with JSON, XML, YAML and CSV, plus GraphQL and an MCP interface for AI agents.
- JSON
- Default REST response
- XML
- Markup format
- YAML
- Human-readable
- CSV
- Tabular export
- GraphQL
- Query language
- MCP
- For AI agents
Other ways to use Scrabble Word Scorer
Same data, same APIVerve account, same credit balance — one key works on all of them.
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Request parameters — GET /v1/scrabblescorer
Sent in the query string. Premium parameters are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them. Anything not listed here is dropped rather than passed through.
Required
| Parameter | Type | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
wordRequired | string | QUIZ | The word to score |
Optional
| Parameter | Type | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
languageOptional | string | english | Scrabble language variantenglishfrenchspanishgermanitaliandefault english |
curl "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/scrabblescorer?word=QUIZ&language=english" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"Authentication
Send your key in the x-api-key header. That is the only auth step — no token exchange, and no per-endpoint scope to configure.
| Header | When | Value |
|---|---|---|
x-api-keyRequired | Every request | Your API key. Header names are case-insensitive, so X-API-Key is the same header. |
AuthorizationAlternate | Instead of the above | Bearer <key> — for clients that only expose bearer auth. Resolves to the same account and the same billing. |
A 401 means the key is missing, invalid or expired. A 403 means the key is valid but not permitted here — blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Running out of credits is a 429.
Response — GET /v1/scrabblescorer
Every APIVerve endpoint returns the same three top-level keys, so one response handler covers your whole integration: status, error and data. Only data changes shape.
{
"status": "ok",
"error": null,
"data": {
"word": "QUIZ",
"language": "english",
"total_score": 22,
"letter_count": 4,
"letter_scores": [
{
"letter": "Q",
"score": 10
},
{
"letter": "U",
"score": 1
},
{
"letter": "I",
"score": 1
},
{
"letter": "Z",
"score": 10
}
],
"highest_scoring_letter": {
"letter": "Q",
"score": 10
},
"average_letter_score": 5.5,
"note": "Scores do not include board multipliers (double/triple letter/word)"
}
}
Response fields
Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.
| Field | Type | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
word | string | "QUIZ" | The word that was scored in uppercase |
language | string | "english" | The Scrabble language variant used for scoring |
total_score | number | 22 | Total Scrabble points for the word without board multipliers |
letter_count | number | 4 | Number of letters in the word |
letter_scores | array[4] | Array of letter objects with letter and score properties | |
letter | string | "Q" | Individual letter character in uppercase |
score | number | 10 | Scrabble points for this single letter |
highest_scoring_letterPremium | object | {...} | Object containing letter and score of highest value letter |
letterPremium | string | "Q" | The letter with the highest Scrabble value |
scorePremium | number | 10 | Points for the highest scoring letter |
average_letter_scorePremium | number | 5.5 | Average Scrabble points per letter in the word |
note | string | "Scores do not include board multipliers (double/triple letter/word)" | Note about score calculation methodology and multipliers |
Response headers
Every response carries your balance, so your own code always knows where it stands without polling anything. All four are exposed to browsers through CORS.
| Header | What it carries |
|---|---|
x-api-remaining-credits | Credits left in the current cycle |
x-api-credits-used | Credits spent in the current cycle |
x-api-max-credits | The allowance for the cycle |
x-api-version | Version of the endpoint that answered |
Errors
Read the HTTP status first, then error for the specific reason. The body names the parameter that has to change.
| Status | Meaning | What to do |
|---|---|---|
400 | Input was rejected | Read error; it names the parameter that has to change. |
401 | Key missing or invalid | Check the header name and the key value. |
403 | Key valid, but not permitted here | A key restriction or an IP allow-list — never a bad key. |
429 | Rate limited, or out of credits | Read error to tell them apart, then back off or top up. |
What a call costs — 2 credits per call
Credits are shared across every APIVerve API — one balance, one key, one bill. Failed requests never count against it, so a rejected input costs nothing.
| Plan | Per month | Credits | Scrabble Word Scorer calls | Per 1,000 calls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 200 | 100 | Free |
| Starter | $29.99 | 200,000 | 100,000 | $0.30 |
| Pro | $99.99 | 1,000,000 | 500,000 | $0.20 |
| Mega | $299.99 | 4,000,000 | 2,000,000 | $0.15 |
Calls are what the credits buy at this API's rate — spend them here, on any of the other APIs, or across both. Nothing is reserved per endpoint.
Call it from cURL — GET /v1/scrabblescorer
No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/scrabblescorer with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.
curl "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/scrabblescorer" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"Resources
Also published for
Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.
Call it from Node.js — GET /v1/scrabblescorer
Install the Node.js SDK, then call the Scrabble Word Scorer API with your key. The client wraps the same HTTPS request, so anything it returns is what the endpoint returns.
npm install @apiverve/scrabblescorerconst res = await fetch("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/scrabblescorer", {
headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" },
});
const { data } = await res.json();
console.log(data);Resources
Also published for
Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.
Call it from Python — GET /v1/scrabblescorer
No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/scrabblescorer with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.
import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://api.apiverve.com/v1/scrabblescorer",
headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
print(res.json()["data"])Resources
Also published for
Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.
Call it from C# / .NET — GET /v1/scrabblescorer
Install the C# / .NET SDK, then call the Scrabble Word Scorer API with your key. The client wraps the same HTTPS request, so anything it returns is what the endpoint returns.
dotnet add package APIVerve.API.ScrabbleWordScorerusing var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
var json = await client.GetStringAsync("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/scrabblescorer");
Console.WriteLine(json);Resources
Also published for
Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.
Call it from Go — GET /v1/scrabblescorer
No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/scrabblescorer with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/scrabblescorer", nil)
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))Resources
Also published for
Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.
Call it from PHP — GET /v1/scrabblescorer
No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/scrabblescorer with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.
$ch = curl_init("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/scrabblescorer");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
echo $response;Resources
Also published for
Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.
Call it from Ruby — GET /v1/scrabblescorer
No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/scrabblescorer with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.
require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/scrabblescorer")
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-api-key"] = "YOUR_API_KEY"
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |h| h.request(req) }
puts res.bodyResources
Also published for
Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.
Zero-code embed — one snippet, no backend
Drop an interactive Scrabble Word Scorer form onto any page. The widget calls the API for you, so no key ever appears in your markup and there is nothing to deploy.
Changelog — Scrabble Word Scorer API
Every change to this endpoint, newest first. Breaking changes ship as a new version and the previous one keeps serving — response fields are added, never removed or retyped in place, so an integration written against v1 keeps working.
Entries are picked up from dated catalog snapshots, so the first one appears after the next snapshot that moves something. A period where nothing changed produces no entry — silence is a valid changelog for the Scrabble Word Scorer API.
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