The dictionary
Lexitaire's Swahili word list comes from the Jambo Spellchecker’s dictionary — compiled from Egerton University’s word list, the TUKI English-Swahili Dictionary, the Kamusi Project, and Kevin Scannell’s An Crúbadán web corpus — mirrored at elastic/hunspell, licensed LGPL. Challenge links in this language currently only work between browser-version players — the native app doesn't support it yet.
Letters & tiles
The letter bag is 100 tiles: only 24 letters appear at all — standard Swahili spelling has no Q or X. The tile distribution is corpus-derived from the shipped word list's real letter frequency.
Letter distribution
Every distinct letter, its point value, and how many tiles of it are in the bag:
Worth knowing
- Swahili was added specifically for its reach across East Africa — Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, DR Congo, and beyond — a large, fast-growing market with no counterpart in the native app.
Want to check whether a specific word is valid here? Try the word lookup tool, preloaded with this language.