Arabic
Arabic-language editions use the following 100 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles scoring 0 points
- 1 point: ﺍ ×8, ﻝ ×4, ﺝ ×4, ﺡ ×3, ﺥ ×3, ﻡ ×3, ﻥ ×3, ﻩ ×3, ﻭ ×3, ﻯ ×3
- 2 points: ﺏ ×4, ﺭ ×3, ﺕ ×4, ﺩ ×3, ﺱ ×3, ﺙ ×3,
- 3 points: ﻑ ×3, ﻕ ×3, ﺫ ×3, ﺵ ×3, ﺯ ×3
- 4 points: ﺹ ×3, ﺽ ×3, ﻉ ×3, ﻙ ×3, ﻁ ×2,
- 5 points: ﻅ ×2
- 6 points: ﺉ ×2
- 8 points: ﻍ ×2, ﺀ ×2
- 10 points: ﺃ ×2, ﺅ ×2,
Although Arabic letters have up to four forms, Scrabble tiles only make use of the isolated form. This pattern of composing words is also found in Arabic crosswords and is one of the rare occurrences when Arabic letters are not connected to each other.
Read more about this topic: Scrabble Letter Distributions