Fumy scrabble dictionary update#

But there are no new two-letter words, and no huge game-changers, like when QI and ZA rocked Scrabble in 2006, or even when OK landed amid debate in 2016. So is AT, as in “don’t at me.” INKING is pluralizable. Of the 489 total additions-a list is circulating like samizdat in the competitive Scrabble community-more than half are inflections of new words or new inflections of existing words. More new words means more opportunities to score more points-and fewer dictionaries means fewer new words and fewer scoring opportunities.īy that standard, the OSPD7 is a modest update.

Including non-Merriam dictionaries has been a cause driven by competitive Scrabble players like me.

A few hundred new words every five years or so is plenty to justify a new edition of a book aimed at living-room players who want the latest in language- SPORK, BAE, ZONKEY, and HYGGE adorn the seventh edition’s redesigned cover. It publishes the OSPD under an agreement with Hasbro Inc., which owns Scrabble in North America. The shortage of other dictionaries isn’t a problem for Merriam-Webster. The last time Scrabble players poached words from outside sources was 2014, when they combed the Oxford American College Dictionary (last published in 2007) and the Canadian Oxford Dictionary (2005), which supplied some cool newies like QAJAQ. Why the solo effort? Partly because there are no standard North American dictionaries left untapped.

Fumy scrabble dictionary update#

The new words in the latest OSPD update come only from Merriam, and were culled from more than 4,300 words added online from 2018 through 2021.