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Name a Four Letter Word A-Z

Try to name a valid four-letter Scrabble word which starts with each letter of the alphabet.
Using any valid Scrabble word from the TWL06 word list used in official Scrabble tournaments. More info here. Search the word list here. HINT: No hyphenated words!
After guessing correctly, the 3 most common words are shown.
Quiz by Stewart
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Last updated: March 13, 2022
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First submittedMarch 13, 2022
Times taken106,023
Average score80.8%
Rating4.92
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# Possible
Words
A
196
away, also, arms + more
B
262
been, back, both + more
C
237
came, come, care + more
D
239
down, done, days + more
E
106
even, eyes, ever + more
F
195
from, face, find + more
G
195
good, give, gave + more
H
191
have, here, hand + more
I
59
into, idea, iron + more
J
89
just, john, jack + more
K
130
know, king, knew + more
L
215
like, life, last + more
M
220
more, made, must + more
 
# Possible
Words
N
108
name, next, near + more
O
112
only, over, once + more
P
267
part, poor, past + more
Q
15
quit, quiz, quay + more
R
185
room, read, rest + more
S
362
said, such, same + more
T
254
that, this, they + more
U
40
upon, used, unto + more
V
75
very, view, vain + more
W
168
with, were, will + more
X
1
xyst
Y
74
your, year, yard + more
Z
35
zeal, zone, zero + more
105 Comments
+44
Level 82
Mar 14, 2022
Nice! I didn’t know that x word.. obviously I’m not a scrabble champion eh
+83
Level 91
Mar 14, 2022
Nobody knew that x word before they took this quiz.
+12
Level 89
Mar 16, 2022
It says 10% of people did, but it seems really obscure.
+8
Level 59
Nov 29, 2023
only 5% now in 2023
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Level 43
Feb 16, 2024
still 5% in 2024
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Level 27
May 2, 2024
I only knew this word because I used to play loads of word search games (including scrabble, thought xyst is rarely useful there). I think I first stumbled onto it in this phone cookie game where you have to make as many words as possible with the given letters, and I accidentally made xyst. Still don't know what it means though lmao
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Level 53
May 5, 2024
That’s how I got it. Playing those seven letter scramble games where you make as many words as you can, and by the end I always end up doing random four letter words and I randomly for xyst the other day.
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Level 50
Jun 19, 2024
still 5% later on in 2024
+23
Level 60
Mar 25, 2022
people could have just done it again after seeing the answer
+4
Level 72
Mar 20, 2024
nope only the statistics for the first attempt count
+8
Level 92
Apr 14, 2022
The cruciverbalists in the crowd will know it.
+5
Level 78
Aug 8, 2022
A bit recherché with your word choice.
+7
Level 79
Dec 22, 2022
Stats only count the first take
+1
Level 49
May 26, 2023
I did but that's because I took another one like this.
+8
Level 60
Mar 14, 2022
Ashamed that I missed quiz…. Really love the series though, keep it up!
+134
Level 85
Mar 14, 2022
I didn't realize that word even xysted.
+2
Level 35
Mar 26, 2022
lol
+1
Level 50
Jun 19, 2024
I lol'd as well!
+1
Level 50
Jun 19, 2024
lol
+26
Level 85
Mar 14, 2022
Hint: think of a three-letter word and make it plural.

Okay, who the heck is going to get xyst?

+22
Level 60
Mar 14, 2022
People who read the comments
+5
Level 46
Mar 18, 2022
I mean, that's how I got 100% lol
+1
Level 46
Mar 18, 2022
in case you're wondering, it was just that one x word. What the heck is a xyst?
+14
Level 76
Mar 15, 2022
I did, though I didn't know what it meant. So I looked it up and it means a garden walk planted with trees in an ancient Roman villa (I'm not making this up). Now I have never heard anyone say I want to walk along the xyst even if they were indeed walking along the xyst, and if it's never used does it cease to be a word? This is an important philosophical question, like does Palestine exist if nobody only 139 countries recognise it? Bad example, how about does Molossia exist if nobody recognises it? Same with xyst. One day dictionarians will delete that word and on that day this will become a 25-answer quiz.
+4
Level 60
Mar 15, 2022
Sounds like one of the words used in vocabulary exams at my school - hard words to stress about, that you’ll never see or hear written or spoken by any sensible person.
+9
Level 78
Mar 16, 2022
Or the quiz will just accept X-ray.
+1
Level 60
Jun 23, 2022
Going on a xyst sounds nice
+1
Level 18
Jun 25, 2022
Its a greek thing, You can search whats does greek word mean.
+14
Level 83
Mar 14, 2022
This might be the only quiz on Jetpunk where "all but one correct" is the most common score.
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Level 68
Mar 14, 2022
Maybe this was the goal all along...

But seriously, generally when there's such an outlier like this it would just be removed from the quiz. But of course, you can't just remove a letter from the alphabet so it must stay :)

+3
Level 85
Mar 14, 2022
Or you just give the answer in a grey cell.
+1
Level 76
Mar 15, 2022
Now that would get the X percentage up.
+4
Level 60
Mar 15, 2022
it’s not like we need the letter X tho
+1
Level 23
Feb 17, 2024
oh shoot i missed my klia ekspress train
+12
Level 89
Mar 16, 2022
Ekscuse me?
+3
Level 28
Mar 30, 2022
relaks, i ekspect that it won't hurt at all if we remove ks from the leksicon
+1
Level 49
May 26, 2023
come on, we absolutely need the letter eks!
+1
Level 72
Mar 20, 2024
lacksicon?
+1
Level 63
Apr 28, 2024
The diksionary felt left out...
+6
Level 96
Mar 14, 2022
Is there a reason why x-ray isn't considered a valid 4 letter word? Is it because of the hyphen? It's been years since I played Scrabble and I don't remember the specific rules about what words count.
+4
Level 68
Mar 14, 2022
Yep hyphenated words and (most) proper nouns (start with a capital generally) don't count. There are some exceptions where proper nouns have other meanings.
+1
Level 63
Mar 25, 2022
Or sometimes when the proper noun has become so synonymous with what it does that it now also functions as a verb (viz. Google). You can’t have a proper verb, after all!
+1
Level 92
Feb 16, 2024
Yep, this is how xerox made its way into the Scrabble dictionary.
+2
Level 71
Mar 14, 2022
Same thing as yo-yo, which was the first thing I tried for Y, and it didn’t work.
+6
Level 70
Mar 25, 2022
Damn, the time limit is brutal for a non-native speaker.
+1
Level 72
Mar 20, 2024
I am a non-native speaker and got all but x with 50 seconds to spare.

It think it helped I could use a lot of word ending in the -oat sound, started with boat and coat, and could do several more, also "note" still having the sounb in my head. And only a small adaptation needed (for my own logic/speed of thinking) to switch to dead. I realise now there is also something like dode or dote (to spoil a child or cuddle them a lot or something like that). And herd. I don't know the -oat was a starting point and for most words it just felt like a small side-step (not for the vowels and q and z for instance)

Anyway in short, if you get into a flow it helps. If you start from scratch from each word your brain have to restart each time. Hope this is helpful to someone

+2
Level 39
Mar 25, 2022
wow, this was harder than I thought it would be! I resorted to naming body parts (arms, legs, nose) -- it worked rather well!
+1
Level 21
Jan 5, 2024
Ohh that's clever!
+8
Level 78
Mar 25, 2022
I missed one... but I think I got the xyst of it.
+5
Level 59
Mar 25, 2022
I think we all tried x-ray
+1
Level 69
Oct 16, 2023
^Yup
+1
Level 69
Mar 25, 2022
xyst damnnn
+2
Level 53
Mar 25, 2022
Can you accept Kush for K? Plz :DDD
+5
Level 68
Mar 25, 2022
I have no power to change the dictionary used for this quiz.
+2
Level 64
Mar 25, 2022
Never heard the word "xyst." Even my auto-correct doesn't recognize it.
+2
Level 56
Mar 25, 2022
LMAO IT GOES FROM 50% to 4%
+1
Level 79
Mar 25, 2022
Is "acai" not a Scrable-acceptable word?
+1
Level 68
Mar 25, 2022
Nope
+1
Level 44
Mar 25, 2022
wow those 4%
+2
Level 33
Mar 25, 2022
my first guess for x was "xray" then "xing" lol

i didn't know that xyst was even a word

+1
Level 72
Mar 20, 2024
I tried xeno, really expected it to work, well kind of anyway, had hopes for it. But I guess it is only a suffix. After that tried random things including xing
+2
Level 20
Mar 25, 2022
What in the earth is xyst? never even heard of that. Hey, at least 25/26
+1
Level 45
Mar 26, 2022
Dang it X!! All I could think of was x-ray :/
+2
Level 64
Mar 28, 2022
Finally got there after a few attempts; a bit like Wordle's Phew!

Good quiz

+1
Level 16
Mar 30, 2022
there were more x words that couldve been used
+2
Level 68
Mar 30, 2022
Not according to Scrabble dictionary.
+1
Level 40
Jun 9, 2022
100% only because I play an unhealthy amount of Scrabble.
+1
Level 22
Jul 14, 2022
the 10% might be people who took it twice after looking at the answers.
+4
Level 68
Jul 14, 2022
Actually only your first attempt of any quiz is counted towards the stats. However people can still cheat by googling the answers or "giving up" the quiz with 0 (so the take doesn't count) and then retaking. Or reading comments too
+1
Level 22
Jul 15, 2022
23/26 on first try then 26/26 on second, nice quiz
+2
Level 38
Jul 30, 2022
It's hilarious that it goes from a 50% correct score to a 4% correct score! Might be the biggest difference between 2nd least guessed and the least guessed on a quiz.
+1
Level 60
Aug 7, 2022
Was surprised that the word "qats" was a real word, I was just guessing [consonant] -ats or -ets haha
+2
Level 71
Aug 7, 2022
Yeah I'm okay with 25/26 here haha.
+3
Level 83
Aug 21, 2022
I'm guessing the people who got X right aren't that fun to play Scrabble with
+1
Level 66
Sep 7, 2022
Awww, no "X-ray"? More seriously though, I really think "Xylo" should be on here...welp
+1
Level 76
Sep 27, 2022
?ays works for 16 letters out of 26. Bays, cays, days, go on.
+3
Level 38
Nov 20, 2022
i only got xyst because of a mistype of cyst! (not entirely sure why I chose that but I did)
+1
Level 68
Dec 23, 2022
flashing timer at end is so annoying
+2
Level 67
Feb 3, 2023
Maybe someday Xbox will count.
+1
Level 33
Apr 14, 2023
I put "ear" or "are" and just put a letter before it and got 20 of them with that. The other 5 were random bundles of letters.
+2
Level 37
May 23, 2023
xeon
+1
Level 57
Aug 29, 2023
Cant (without the ') works but dont (with or without the ') doesn't?
+4
Level 68
Aug 29, 2023
Because "cant" is a word on its own unrelated to "can not". Whereas "dont" is not a word on its own
+1
Level 72
Mar 20, 2024
If I remember correctly cant is something along the lines of "slang" I think language/words used by a specific group of people (like those in a specific profession or like the language of thieves).

Yes I know strange/unusual words haha, and I language which is not my own. My family sometimes makes jokes that I should have been born somewhere else haha. (and my sister just wished me happy st-patricks day with the text "since you are practically english anyway"

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Level 39
Aug 29, 2023
xyst??
+1
Level 44
Aug 30, 2023
I like for T I wrote Tits and it worked lol
+1
Level 63
Apr 28, 2024
Why wouldn't it? "Emus" and "jays" work, also.
+3
Level 64
Aug 30, 2023
Thanks for the "hint". :)
+1
Level 72
Mar 20, 2024
A "hint" for the "quiz": "name" a "four" letter "word"?
+1
Level 69
Oct 16, 2023
I was hoping x-ray would count :(
+1
Level 66
Nov 8, 2023
Thank you Xyster from MSM!
+2
Level 46
Nov 25, 2023
For x i tries xoxo
+2
Level 51
Dec 12, 2023
Knowing cuss words will get you a few.
+2
Level 48
Jan 5, 2024
what the hell’s a xyst??
+2
Level 68
Jan 5, 2024
A Scrabble word which can mean either:

1. (in ancient Greek and Roman architecture) a covered portico, as a promenade.

2. (in an ancient Roman villa) a garden walk planted with trees.

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Level 68
Feb 17, 2024
The name of my new subscription service. We cater to the growing space of underserved young future champions of the next generation. Together, along with a monthly pledge of $24.99, we can XYST.
+2
Level 53
Jan 5, 2024
Some bad words are also accepted
+2
Level 53
Feb 2, 2024
Love playing Scrabble so these quizzes were nice and fun. :)
+1
Level 34
Feb 16, 2024
Zulu should count!
+1
Level 23
Feb 17, 2024
i got xyst right first try
+1
Level 55
Feb 17, 2024
Now I would like a quiz based off this quiz. guess what word was typed the most for each letter. I typed "milk" for m. Anyone else?
+1
Level 45
Mar 3, 2024
_ine is OP
+1
Level 33
May 11, 2024
for me _ill almost always worked
+1
Level 19
Mar 15, 2024
very fun quiz! Thank You!
+2
Level 54
May 20, 2024
I didn't know xyst.