City names you can play in Scrabble

[DandyDan]

Some for Iowa I am aware of:
Clarion
Coin
Crescent
Davenport
Gravity
Grimes
Hull
Independence
Manly
Newton
Rake
Soldier
Ute
Walnut
Whiting

[freebrickproductions]

Alabama:
New Hope (two plays)
Good Hope (two plays)
All Good (two plays)
Harvest
Chase (was technically annexed by Huntsville, IIRC)
Skyline
Section
Flat Rock (two plays)
Paint Rock (two plays)
Verbena
Trinity
Union Grove (two plays)
Auburn
East Point (two plays)
West Point (two plays)
Nectar
Centre
Spring Garden (two plays)
Sand Rock (two plays)
Pine Ridge (two plays)
Warrior
Locust Fork (two plays)
Minor
Rock Creek (two plays)
Lake View (two plays)
Reform
Union
New Site (two plays)
Camp Hill (two plays)
Gold Hill (two plays)
Our Town (two plays)
Equality
Central
Pine Level (two plays)
Shorter
Banks
Smut Eye (two plays)
Red Level (two plays)
Berry

And probably plenty more.

[formulanone]

There's also...

Enterprise
Pineapple (technically, the town is two words)
Jasper
Butler
Foley
Valley
Colony
Bug Tussle (two plays, but...Bug Tussle!)

[hm insulators]

One from Hawaii: Pearl City (two plays), a suburb of Honolulu.

[jbnati27]

Cities in Ohio that meet the criteria:

alliance
aurora
canton
defiance
green
heath
independence
mason
mentor
reading
riverside
stow
union
vermilion
warren

Handful more from Ohio:
- Dent
- Kinnickkinnick (although there's really not enough Ks or blanks for this one)
- Hanging Rock (2 play)
- Morrow
- Day Heights (2 play)
- Mount Repose (2 play)
- Mount Sterling (2 play)
- Felicity
- Cable
- Plain City (2 play)
- Brilliant
- Pleasant Plain (2 play)

[cl94]

Two from Europe:

Fucking
Wank

You forgot to add Dildo, Newfoundland

A partial New York list, of which some might be repeats:

Eagle
Ushers
Argyle
(Lake) Placid
Clay
Paradox
Victory
Crescent
Alcove
Hunter
Hillside
Liberty
Amity
Rye
Oceanside
Bath
Gates
Bliss
Armor
Derby
Stow
Limestone
Freedom
Pike
Dale
Arcade
Rose
Hope
Wells
Prospect
Speculator
Jay
Surprise
Corona

Counties:
Warren
Orange
Dutchess
Kings
Queens

[empirestate]

How many one-word city names can be played in Scrabble?
Example: Purchase, NY

I stress "one-word" cities, because there are lots of 2-word places where each word would be playable in Scrabble, e.g., "Long Beach".

(two plays)

ಠ_ಠ

Dutchess

Is "dutchess" an acceptable variant spelling for "duchess"?

[cl94]

How many one-word city names can be played in Scrabble?
Example: Purchase, NY

I stress "one-word" cities, because there are lots of 2-word places where each word would be playable in Scrabble, e.g., "Long Beach".

(two plays)

ಠ_ಠ

Dutchess

Is "dutchess" an acceptable variant spelling for "duchess"?

Depends on how strict we are playing things. It is an archaic spelling that was used until the 19th Century, when the spelling was changed to be more similar to the French word.

[paulthemapguy]

- Kinnickkinnick (although there's really not enough Ks or blanks for this one)

What the Jesus Jeremiah Rob Lowe Christ is a kinnickkinnick?

Also holy crap people, we can tell when a name is two words or not lol.

[1995hoo]

Two from Europe:

Fucking
Wank

You forgot to add Dildo, Newfoundland

....

I mentioned it in an earlier one-word post that said simply "Dildo."

[SD Mapman]

- Kinnickkinnick (although there's really not enough Ks or blanks for this one)

What the Jesus Jeremiah Rob Lowe Christ is a kinnickkinnick?

Native American tobacco mixture, but there's only one k in the middle.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Two from Europe:

Fucking
Wank

I thought swear words wouldn't be valid ones on Scrabble, and as such I didn't mention that Fucking Austrian village. Any German or Austrian village ending with -ing that also happens to be a gerund is a valid play.

And one from Asturias, Spain some forumers here greatly appreciate: Poo.

[kkt]

- Kinnickkinnick (although there's really not enough Ks or blanks for this one)

What the Jesus Jeremiah Rob Lowe Christ is a kinnickkinnick?

Native American tobacco mixture, but there's only one k in the middle.

Ooh!  So if you had both blanks, and for some reason wanted to use them on kinnic_innic_, you could!

[hotdogPi]

Looking at Austria through Apple Maps (I don't know if all these are real places):

Egg
Mining
Raiding
Ebbs
Moos
Rain
Hart
Gassing
Anger
Halt
Ring
Hard
Brand
See
Plans
Grins
Frög (ö plays like o, right?)
Pill
Wolf
Rum
Mils
Hub
Not
Flöcking
Grub

[jbnati27]

- Kinnickkinnick (although there's really not enough Ks or blanks for this one)

What the Jesus Jeremiah Rob Lowe Christ is a kinnickkinnick?

Native American tobacco mixture, but there's only one k in the middle.

Ooh!  So if you had both blanks, and for some reason wanted to use them on kinnic_innic_, you could!

Oh! You're right! That was my bad for misspelling Kinnickinnick.

[Scott5114]

Gardener (KS)

Not actually a legal play–assuming you mean the city in Johnson County, it's spelled Gardner.

[1995hoo]

Two from Europe:

Fucking
Wank

I thought swear words wouldn't be valid ones on Scrabble, and as such I didn't mention that Fucking Austrian village. Any German or Austrian village ending with -ing that also happens to be a gerund is a valid play.

And one from Asturias, Spain some forumers here greatly appreciate: Poo.

As far as I can remember (I haven't played Scrabble in several years), the rules in the game box don't prohibit vulgarities, just proper nouns. Tournaments might have their own specific rules, of course.

[cl94]

Two from Europe:

Fucking
Wank

I thought swear words wouldn't be valid ones on Scrabble, and as such I didn't mention that Fucking Austrian village. Any German or Austrian village ending with -ing that also happens to be a gerund is a valid play.

And one from Asturias, Spain some forumers here greatly appreciate: Poo.

As far as I can remember (I haven't played Scrabble in several years), the rules in the game box don't prohibit vulgarities, just proper nouns. Tournaments might have their own specific rules, of course.

Correct. It's a common house rule, but we've always allowed it when playing with only adults. Yes, I checked the rulebook before using profanity.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Looking at Austria through Apple Maps (I don't know if all these are real places):

Frög (ö plays like o, right?)

Nope, ö in German can be only replaced by oe when not having a diaeresis avalaible, so it would be Froeg. Same with Floecking. OTOH, you missed Stocking.

[lepidopteran]

From Maryland:

Accident -- on US-219 (no, that's where it's located!)
Bivalve -- a type of shellfish including clams.  Small unincorporated community way out on the Eastern Shore
Boring -- along MD-30 north of Reisterstown.  The jokes they must get...
Bowie -- think of a bowie knife
Butler -- signed on Exit 24 of I-83
Galena -- a kind of lead ore
Halfway -- overlaps I-70 in the Hagerstown area
Harmony -- on the Eastern Shore
Laurel
Parole -- US-50/US-301/secret I-595 goes through here
Pinto -- on US-220
Price -- on US-301 on the Eastern Shore
Savage
Street -- north of Bel Air near the PA border


And a few more from Florida

Homestead
Keystone
Plantation
Marathon (on the Keys)
Mulberry
Tamarac (sp) --the tree is spelled tamaracK
Vineyards

[Ian]

Some for Maine (in no particular order)...

-Strong
-Freedom
-Liberty
-Hope
-Unity
-Limestone
-Weld
-Gray
-Harmony
-Union
-Friendship
-Prospect
-Bath
-Limerick
-Wells
-Orient
-Amity

[kphoger]

I like the Texas panhandle for this. Ignoring unincorporated communities, here are some of the good ones...

Cactus
Sunray
Shamrock
Earth
Turkey
Happy
Panhandle

OK, I lied. My favorite one is unincorporated: Twitty

[paulthemapguy]

There are so many towns that are named after plants, landforms, and objects that these lists could go on forever.

--The Illinois list--
In Illinois, there's several towns named after trees.  E.g. Walnut, Sycamore, Cherry, Cypress, & Magnolia.

Others:  Joy, Countryside, Galena (it's a mineral), Liberty, Equality, Highland, Golden, Hull, Viola, Kings, Mounds, Cave-In-Rock, Olive Branch, and who could forget...Sandwich.  Also is "gays" in the dictionary?  Because Gays, IL is a thing 

Thought of some more:  Metropolis, Mineral, Summit, Industry, Standard, Mark, Media, Pearl, Banner, Triumph, Mason, Sterling, Campus and Bush.  Also, does Eureka count?

[CobaltYoshi27]

Kind of surprised no one mentioned Difficult, TN.

[empirestate]

Kind of surprised no one mentioned Difficult, TN.

Or Nameless, TN.