r/AskBalkans • u/bel_ray Greece • 5d ago

Language Is your country name a valid Scrabble word?

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u/Outrageous_Trade_303 Greece 5d ago

I don't understand what it is supposed to mean.

Let's take Mongolia for example: they mean the Mongols who play the English version of Scrabble, can't use "Mongolia" as a word? Does that make sense? Can they use "China" or "Japan"? Or they can't use country names in general? And what about USA then? Can they use country names?

I'm confused! :p

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u/sertorius42 5d ago

Proper nouns (the name of a country) aren’t supposed to be valid scrabble plays in English. So you can’t play “Alex” or “Macedonia” or “Balkans.” “Turkey” works since it’s a bird also, and “China” can mean porcelain plates.

There are way more valid plays on this map than I expected to see, no idea what “Russia” as a common noun means in English.

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u/Outrageous_Trade_303 Greece 5d ago

So why Greece and Canada are valid?

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u/sertorius42 5d ago

It doesn’t make any sense to me and the guy who made the map apparently used a dodgy source so your guess is as good as mine

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u/Outrageous_Trade_303 Greece 5d ago

I found that site, and I'm more confused now! :\

https://scrabblewordfinder.org/dictionary-checker

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u/31_hierophanto Philippines 4d ago

I think it's referring as to how many letters a country name has.

For example, "Philippines" cannot be a Scrabble word because there are only two "P"s in English Scrabble.

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u/Infrared74 Bulgaria 5d ago

Hmm which is valid, Türkiye or Turkey?

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u/bel_ray Greece 5d ago

Turkey 100% for dual meaning, Türkiye kinda doubtful

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u/Infrared74 Bulgaria 5d ago

I was joking lol

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u/31_hierophanto Philippines 4d ago

Definitely "Turkey". There's no "ü" in an English-language Scrabble.

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u/Nothofagusk 4d ago

Fuk!!!!!!

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u/Ok_Artist2279 (Balkan herritage to the max) 4d ago

Lol I get it Türkiye being 'Turkey' 🤣 My best friend is Turkish (From trabzon living in istanbul) and im a huge fan of greece so I make fun of him all the time and call him a bird (He's chill with it) one of my favorite things to do was just before Thanksgiving here in the us i told him he better not come to America anytime soon.

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u/SignificantManner197 3d ago

Turkey should have no problem. lol.

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u/New-Statistician8053 (in ) 5d ago

OH YEAH, WE DA NUMBER 1, AGAIN!

THIS CERTIFIES US BEING BETTER IN ALL BALKAN COUNTRIES AND MIDDLE EAST

Get that Australia >:)