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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
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.
Name Country First tournament year Ref Will Anderson United States 2009 [1] Conrad Bassett-Bouchard United States 2004 [2] Craig Beevers United Kingdom 2009 [3] Hervé Bohbot France 2003 David Boys Canada 1985 Brian Cappelletto United States 1985 [4] Michel Duguet France 1982 Joe Edley United States 1978 [5] David Eldar Australia 2005 [6]
Collins Scrabble Words (CSW, formerly SOWPODS) is the word list used in English-language tournament Scrabble in most countries except the US, Thailand and Canada, [1] although Scrabble tournaments in the US and Canada are also organized with divisions that use Collins Scrabble Words as their lexicon, some under the auspices of organizations such as the Collins Coalition.
I want a list of English words containing the substring “qu” not followed by a vowel letter. --88.78.238.85 19:30, 13 October 2009 (UTC) If the "vowel letters" are AEIOUY, then you have qubit qubits qubyte qubytes qursh qurshes qurush qurushes umquhile (taken from a Scrabble word list). Equinox 05:22, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
The word source currently in use for international play, known as Collins Scrabble Words or CSW (formerly Official Scrabble Words or OSW) is not derived from a single dictionary, but combines three components: Collins (7th edition, 2005), Chambers (1998 edition) and TWL, the current Northern American wordlist.
A word search, word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle is a word game that consists of the letters of words placed in a grid, which usually has a rectangular or square shape. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words hidden inside the box.
In an agreement with Mattel's predecessor, J. W. Spear & Sons, the Chambers Dictionary was, for several decades, the official source of words for the book Official Scrabble Words (OSW), a lexicon of all words and inflections playable in tournament Scrabble within the UK and other countries such as New Zealand and Australia.