It can, but the blank tile does not have to start a word.
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A blank tile is Scrabble is worth zero points. You will score the rest of the word, but add 0 for the score of the blank tile.
Blank tile=0 point. However, it can be used to represent any letters in the alphabet to form a word. Depending on its position, the word it carries can be doubled, re-doubled, tripled or re-tripled and it can also carry the score of the word to which it will be connected.
It can be played more than once in a game as a word or connecting a letter tile 'a'/'z' to an existing open letter tile 'z'/'a' or using blank tile/s representing the letter tile 'z' and/or 'a'.
Atlanta
There is no such word.