Depends on what you're qualifying by "better."
This is curious. I’m a big scrabble player, and a good one, and I honed my game by playing with a lot of physicists at MIT. I’m an english/creative writing major and I was getting my a$$ kicked by them on a daily basis.
It was finally explained to me — “You’re playing to make words... we’re playing for points.”
So, instead of playing as a ‘word person’ — I went into math/logic mode and suddenly I began to really make gains. It’s a ‘word’ game, but really, it’s a logic and math game as well. Women tend to not be as logic based (strangely, I’m one of the exceptions, despite even being a ‘worder’ by profession.)