page_title: Scrabble letter distributions
section_title: Swedish
hierarchical_section_title: Scrabble letter distributions / Official editions / Swedish
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context_page_description: Editions of the word board game Scrabble in different languages have differing letter distributions of the tiles, because the frequency of each letter of the alphabet is different for every language. As a general rule, the rarer the letter, the more points it is worth.
  Many languages use sets of 102 tiles, since the original distribution of one hundred tiles was later augmented with two blank tiles. In tournament play, while it is acceptable to pause the game to count the tiles remaining in the game, it is not acceptable to mention how many tiles are remaining at any time. Several online tools exist for counting tiles during friendly play.
context_section_description: Swedish-language Scrabble sets (until 1990 sold in Sweden as Alfapet, but that became a different game) use these 100 tiles:
  2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
  1 point: A ×8, R ×8, S ×8, T ×8, E ×7, N ×6, D ×5, I ×5, L ×5
  2 points: O ×5, G ×3, K ×3, M ×3, H ×2
  3 points: F ×2, V ×2, Ä ×2
  4 points: U ×3, B ×2, P ×2, Ö ×2, Å ×2
  7 points: J ×1, Y ×1
  8 points: C ×1, X ×1
  10 points: Z ×1
  Å, Ä and Ö have separate tiles; other diacritics like that on É are ignored (except Ü). Q and W, found only in loanwords, are absent but can be played with a blank. Ü and Æ require a blank, and as of 2010 only occur in one and three playable words respectively: müsli and three forms of Laestadianism (læstadianism in Swedish).
  Originally (starting in 1954), Swedish Scrabble sets (called Alfa-pet, made by the Swedish company Alga, a member of the BRIO Group) used a slightly different distribution:
  2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
  1 point: T ×9, A ×8, R ×8, S ×8, E ×7, N ×6, D ×5, I ×5, L ×5
  2 points: O ×5, G ×3, K ×3, M ×3, H ×2
  3 points: F ×2, V ×2, Ä ×2
  4 points: U ×3, B ×2, P ×2, Ö ×2, Å ×2
  7 points: J ×1, Y ×1
  8 points: X ×1
  10 points: C ×1
  Note that Z was absent in this distribution as it is almost exclusively used in loanwords. However, it could be played with a blank.
  Between 1956 and 1961, the makers of Alfa-pet revised the distribution, altering the number of tiles for the letters B, E, N, O, P, S, and U. The letter C was reduced in value to 5 and the X was increased to 10:
  2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
  1 point: E ×10, N ×9, T ×9, A ×8, R ×8, S ×6, D ×5, I ×5, L ×5
  2 points: O ×4, G ×3, K ×3, M ×3, H ×2
  3 points: F ×2, V ×2, Ä ×2
  4 points: U ×2, Ö ×2, Å ×2, B ×1, P ×1
  5 points: C ×1
  7 points: J ×1, Y ×1
  10 points: X ×1
  Circa 1961, the hyphen was dropped from the game's name, and the original Swedish distribution of the game had been restored. Sometime later, produced under BRIO's subsidiary, Joker, the number of Ts in the set were reduced by one and an 8-point Z tile was added.
  In 2002, under the ownership of Mattel and its brand name Scrabble, the Swedish language set tile values of the C and Z were changed, respectively, to 8 and 10.
  Though Alga had lost its license to Mattel Europa in the early 1990s in the production of the game, the company held onto its ownership of the name Alfapet. subsequently it produced a different yet similar crossword board game. Played on a different grid layout, this game is played with a distribution which contains these 120 tiles, with Q but not W:
  2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points), 2 black tiles (scoring 0 points), 2 left-pointing arrows, 2 right-pointing arrows
  1 point: A ×9, R ×9, E ×8, S ×8, D ×7, L ×7, N ×7, T ×7, I ×6
  2 points: O ×5, G ×4
  3 points: H ×3, K ×3, M ×3, P ×3, U ×3
  4 points: B ×2, F ×2, V ×2, Ä ×2, Ö ×2, Å ×2
  8 points: C ×2, Y ×2, J ×1
  10 points: Q ×1, X ×1, Z ×1
  The black tile may be put in front of a word to create another word adjacent to the black tile and thus diagonally away from the original word. The arrows lets the player change the direction of a word anywhere between the first and last letter of the word, and are always placed under letters. Anyway, Q is only used in loanwords in modern Swedish, so it is included.
caption: A full Swedish Scrabble set.
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