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by graypegg 5 days ago
> …it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED.

I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha

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Scrabble only comes with one Z, so some of those are gonna have be sideways N's.
Also, a Scrabble board is 15 squares across and ZENZIZENZIZENZIC is 16 letters, so even with a Scrabble set with extra Zs or blanks you couldn't ever play it.
even if you just played the root zenzic would be great score, but again, the solitary z would make a wee bit difficult
In addition to the Z's everyone else pointed out, Scrabble boards are 15 tiles across. This is 16 letters. You fool. You utter gumdrop.
Ah! Wrong on the internet! Oh no!
With one Z tile and 2 blanks...
This is exactly what first came to my mind as well. Pretty funny scenario to imagine