The letter J is an important letter in the game of Scrabble. It is worth 8 points, equivalent to the letter X. For most casual Scrabble players, the letter J is the least difficult to build words with in comparison to the other high value ones. However, when they actually draw the tile, they suddenly realize that they don't know a lot of words starting with J. This is because the letter J, similar to its other high value counterparts, is rarely used in the English language. It's why it has such a high value in the game of Scrabble. Now, since the object of the game is to earn a large number of points from the words you build, drawing the letter J should make you jump for joy, not make you say "jeez." And for that to happen, you will need to work on your J game.
With such a high value attached to this particular letter, any Scrabble player should make the most out of the opportunity to score big with it. To do so, the most obvious thing to do is to learn more words that start with J. However, in any J word list you look at online, you would see that there are hundreds of them. In comparison to most letters in the English language, it's only a handful. Still, committing all of them to memory is going to take quite a bit of time. And while doing so can greatly boost your Scrabble performance, there is only one J tile and you might not even be the one to draw it. So, it's best to refine your list to only include the important ones.
Some would say that learning 7-letter words that start with J is best since it enables you to play a bingo with such a high value tile. Unfortunately, though there are quite a lot of 7-letter words starting with J, a lot of them require double vowels or consonants. Also, building a bingo word is hard. That is, unless you'll be building off a bingo stem which uses frequently occurring letters like T, I, S, A, N, E, and R. None of these is a J. Thus, those shouldn't be included in your list.
The words starting with J that you really need to know are the short ones. These words are typically high scoring but require less tiles to build. In addition, there are only a few 2 and 3-letter words that start with J and most of them can be hooked with an S to make them plural. In fact, there's only one two-letter word that starts with J which is JO (Scottish word for sweetheart). The great thing about this is that you can build more words off of that. JOE, JOB, JOY, JOG, JOT, JOLT, and the list goes on. While there may be only one J tile, knowing some of these important words can help make a single opportunity seem more like the goose laying one golden egg after another.
When it comes to building high scoring words out of high value letters, knowing the right words that start with J does the job.
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