The records in each category are classified further based on the environment([[tournament]] or [[club]]) and by the dictionary used ([[OTCWL]] or [[SOWPODS]], ignoring the specific edition).
In the words listed, lowercase letters stand for blanks and paranthesised letters stand for tiles already on the board. An asterisk (*) means that the word is a phony phoney or that the score is known to include phoniesphoneys. An octothorp (#) means that the word is acceptable in SOWPODS but not in OTCWL.
A question mark means that some detail of the record is unknown or questionable. All records are subject to revision as appropriate. Any scoring errors are corrected before considering a play or game for a record, regardless of whether such errors were corrected in tournament standings or not.
=== Tournament, OTCWL ===
# −22: Marlon Hill −6 vs. Ben Schoenbrun −16, July 3, 2010, Albany, NY (game ended after two phonies phoneys and four exchanges)
# −20: Helena Gauthier −9 vs. Gerianne Abriano −11, June 19, 2010, Nashua, NH
# −18: Rod Nivison −8 vs. −10, July 1990, Midwest Invitational Tournament
=== Club, OTCWL ===
== Highest word score, no phonies phoneys ==
=== Tournament, OTCWL ===
# 311: CRAZIEST, Joe Koczan, May 28 1996, Milwaukee
== Highest opening word score, no phonies phoneys ==
The theoretical maximum (using either OTCWL or SOWPODS) is 128 for MUZJIKS without blanks.
=== Club, OTCWL ===
== Highest non-bingo word score, no phonies phoneys ==
=== Tournament, OTCWL ===
# 261: B(RE)EZIER, Jim Kille, April 14, 1993, Club #333, Exon PA
== Highest non-triple-triple word score, no phonies phoneys ==
Records in this category have not been kept systematically, so there could be many higher scores.
# 145: BEZIQuE, [[Tapani Lindgren]], July 23, 2009, Club #628, Roseville CA [http://www.cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=5694 (ref)]
== Longest word, no phonies phoneys ==
=== Tournament, OTCWL ===
=== Tournament, OTCWL ===
# 8: Nigel Peltier and Jeff Martin, July 2, 2010, Reno NV (no phoniesphoneys)
#* PINTOES, ACONITE, RAPIDLY, INFOLDED, EMIRATE, SHEARING, DAtABLE; CORNIEsT
# 8*: Winter and Rob Robinsky, January 17, 2009, Twin Cities Redeye (one phoney)