ScrabbleScore (version 1.0)

sws: Scrabble Word Score

Description

Gives the base word score for a string in scrabble.

Usage

sws(w,only.possible=TRUE,check.valid=FALSE)

Arguments

w

Word or vector of words

only.possible

Default=TRUE Only consider scores that are possible based on the distribution of scrabble letters. For example "zzz" would score 30 if it weren't for the fact that there is only 1 'z' necessitating the use of 2 blanks, for a real score of 10.

check.valid

Default=FALSE When TRUE returns a score of 0 for words not in the TWL06 dictionary.

Value

Returns a vector of values for the word score of each word passed in.

See Also

sls

Examples

sws("zzz")
sws(c("dog","zzz"))
sws(c("dog","zzz"),only.possible=FALSE)
sws(c("dog","zzzzzz"),only.possible=FALSE,check.valid=TRUE)