Scrabble Scorer Skill

Overview

Scrabble Word Scorer works by analyzing each letter in the word and assigning points based on official Scrabble letter values for the specified language. Returns total score, letter breakdown, highest scoring letter, and average letter score.

Live Test Scrabble Scorer Skill Skill →

The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as ScrabbleScorerSkill. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.

Tool call

{
  "name": "ScrabbleScorerSkill",
  "arguments": {
    "word": "QUIZ"
  }
}

You do not name the tool yourself; the model picks it. Asking about QUIZ in the terms this skill covers is enough for it to reach for ScrabbleScorerSkill on its own — naming it explicitly also works, and is the way to force the call.

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Per-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

Argument	Type	Description
`word`Required	string	The word to score length 0–100
`language`Optional	string	Scrabble language variant `englishfrenchspanishgermanitalian` default english

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.

Result

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "word": "QUIZ",
    "language": "english",
    "total_score": 22,
    "letter_count": 4,
    "letter_scores": [
      {
        "letter": "Q",
        "score": 10
      },
      {
        "letter": "U",
        "score": 1
      },
      {
        "letter": "I",
        "score": 1
      },
      {
        "letter": "Z",
        "score": 10
      }
    ],
    "highest_scoring_letter": {
      "letter": "Q",
      "score": 10
    },
    "average_letter_score": 5.5,
    "note": "Scores do not include board multipliers (double/triple letter/word)"
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Field	Type	Example	Description
`word`	string	`QUIZ`	The word that was scored in uppercase
`language`	string	`english`	The Scrabble language variant used for scoring
`total_score`	number	`22`	Total Scrabble points for the word without board multipliers
`letter_count`	number	`4`	Number of letters in the word
`letter_scores`	array[4]		Array of letter objects with letter and score properties
`letter_scores.0.letter`	string	`Q`	Individual letter character in uppercase
`letter_scores.0.score`	number	`10`	Scrabble points for this single letter
`highest_scoring_letter`Premium	object	`{…}`	Object containing letter and score of highest value letter
`highest_scoring_letter.letter`Premium	string	`Q`	The letter with the highest Scrabble value
`highest_scoring_letter.score`Premium	number	`10`	Points for the highest scoring letter
`average_letter_score`Premium	number	`5.5`	Average Scrabble points per letter in the word
`note`	string	`Scores do not include board multipliers (double/triple letter/word)`	Note about score calculation methodology and multipliers

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.

Status	What it means
`400` / `422`	The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one.
`401`	The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
`403`	Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity.
`404`	This skill is not part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
`429`	Out of credits, or a brief rate limit. The message tells them apart.

A call costs 2 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

Game Development: Integrate Scrabble scoring into word game applications and puzzles
Word Analysis: Analyze word values and letter distribution for game strategy and optimization
Educational Tools: Create learning tools for teaching Scrabble and word game strategies
Score Verification: Verify Scrabble scores during gameplay across multiple language variants

Other ways to use Scrabble Scorer Skill

Set up Scrabble Scorer Skill on VerveKit, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveKit account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

Call it as a REST APIOne HTTPS endpoint and an x-api-key header, with SDKs for Node, Python and .NET.APIVerve →Reference →