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NASPA Word List (NWL, formerly Official Tournament and Club Word List, referred to as OTCWL, OWL, TWL) is the official word authority for tournament Scrabble in the USA and Canada under the aegis of NASPA Games. [1] It is based on the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) with modifications to make it more suitable for tournament play.
Although OSPD bears the name Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, no country’s competitive organization lists the OSPD as its official dictionary; the NASPA Word List is the official word list for tournament Scrabble in the United States, Canada, Thailand and Israel. [2] Merriam-Webster markets the OSPD as ideal for school and family use.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Long words" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
One is a whopping 45 letters long. Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed insanely complicated and long.
The use of such spellings was the long-standing practice of the Canadian Press perhaps since that news agency's inception, but visibly the norm prior to World War II. [47] The practice of dropping the letter u in such words was also considered a labour-saving technique during the early days of printing in which movable type was set manually. [47]
A fact from List of the longest English words with one syllable appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 September 2004. The text of the entry was as follows: The text of the entry was as follows:
Three little letters, 645 meanings. The post The Most Complicated Word in English is Only Three Letters Long appeared first on Reader's Digest.
The following list, of about 350 words, is based on documented lists [4] [10] of the top 100, 200, or 400 [3] most commonly misspelled words in all variants of the English language, rather than listing every conceivable misspelled word. Some words are followed by examples of misspellings: