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Not all words in this list are acceptable in Scrabble tournament games. Scrabble tournaments around the world use their own sets of words from selected dictionaries that might not contain all the words listed here. Qi is the most commonly played word in Scrabble tournaments, [10] and was added to the official North American word list in 2006. [11]
List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z
On average, each word in the list has 15.38 senses. The sense count does not include the use of terms in phrasal verbs such as "put out" (as in "inconvenienced") and other multiword expressions such as the interjection "get out!", where the word "out" does not have an individual meaning. [6]
This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter U. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars
ubiquitous; uboat; udder; udders; ufo; uganda; ugandan; uglier; ugliest; uglification; ugliness; ugly; uhuh; uke; ukraine; ukulele; ukuleles; ulcer; ulcerate ...
polygraph (U.S. government, as in "full scope poly") [49] polymer [50] Polynesian polytechnic [51] po-mo post-modern [52] pop popular (informal) [53] popular music porn or porno pornography (slang) [54] postgrad postgraduate pram perambulator, a baby carriage prefs preferences preg pregnant prelim preliminary (examination) prep preparatory pres ...
Lists of acronyms contain acronyms, a type of abbreviation formed from the initial components of the words of a longer name or phrase. They are organized alphabetically and by field. They are organized alphabetically and by field.
cwtch (a hiding place or cubby hole) is also from Welsh (albeit a recent word influenced by English, and used almost exclusively in the variant of English spoken in Wales, not in standard English), and crwth and cwtch are the longest English dictionary words without a, e, i, o, u, y according to Collins Dictionary. [9]