The 25 Most Impressive Scrabble Words Played By Middle and High Schoolers

Noun: “a wild mustard, Brassica kaber, having lobed, ovate leaves and clusters of small, yellow flowers, often troublesome as a weed in grainfields.”

“Charlock” was played by 8th-grader Eli Wool and 7th-grader George Mickelsen from JFK Middle School in Florence, Massachusetts for a whopping 194 points. Wool and Mickelsen played the word on a triple-triple, meaning it straddled two Triple Word Score tiles, hence the lofty score. The duo also used two blank tiles for the C and O. The kicker here is that the two tweens played the word without even knowing it was a real world at all.

Noun: “a workshop or studio, especially of an artist, artisan, or designer.”

Nathanael Campos, a 7th-grader at Scotts Ridge Middle School in Ridgefield, Connecticut and Walden Giezentanner, an 8th-grader at Hixson Middle School in Webster Groves, Missouri, played the word “atelier” for a big 89 points.

Noun, plural: “a former money of account of the United Kingdom, equal to 21 shillings: still often used in quoting fees or prices.”

12th-grader Ruth Li, a student at Blood Collegiate Institute in Toronto, played “guineas” for 86 points.

Adjective: the most naive.

Naivest scored an unidentified student player 77 points.

Noun, plural: “a simple musical wind instrument shaped somewhat like an elongated egg with a mouthpiece and finger holes.”

James Donnelly, a 12th-grader at Hingham High School in Hingham, Massachusetts, played “ocarinas” for 63 points.

Noun: “the armpit.”

Along with “ocarinas,” Donnelly played “oxter” for 40 points.

Scores for the remaining words were not reported by Hasbro.

Noun, plural: “any of several fishes of the family Echeneididae, having on the top of the head a sucking disk by which they can attach themselves to sharks, turtles, ships, and other moving objects.”

Adjective: “being the last in a series of infinitely decreasing or increasing values, amounts, etc.” For example, the nth degree.

Noun: “a small animal, especially one toward which affection is felt.”

Noun, a variant of “fogy”: “an excessively conservative or old-fashioned person, especially one who is intellectually dull (usually preceded by old).”

Noun: “a paper money and monetary unit of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, equal to 100 makuta.”

Noun: “a judge in a Muslim community, whose decisions are based on Islamic religious law.”

Noun: “a form of croquet played on a clay or hard-surface court surrounded by a low wall off which the balls may be played.”

Noun: “the state of being mature; ripeness” or “full development; perfected condition.”

Adjective: “bent in and out; winding; sinuous.”

Verb: “to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion; display a smooth rising-and-falling or side-to-side alternation of movement.”

Noun, plural: “the person to whom a thing is sold.”

Verb: “to shelter in or as in a bower; cover or surround with foliage.”

Noun: “the calculation of the probable duration of human life.”

Noun: “a machine that can automatically reproduce or imitate an autograph or personal signature with any type of pen, pencil, or marker.”

Noun: “the wood of any of several species of mahogany” or “the cashew tree, its nuts, or resin.”

Noun, plural: “(in Latin) a noun form derived from verbs, appearing only in the accusative and the dative-ablative, as dictū in mirābile dictū, “wonderful to say.”

Noun: “a cocktail made from sweet vermouth, gin, and bitters.”

Noun: “one of the pair of hardened forewings of certain insects, as beetles, forming a protective covering for the posterior or flight wings.”

Noun: “a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.”