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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]
Unlike the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, NWL is a list and does not include definitions. It contains words not included in OSPD because they are considered offensive, [3] and a number of other additional words (mostly registered trademarks). Print versions of NWL can be procured from the NASPA website by NASPA members only.
The Official Tournament and Club Word List, the predecessor of today’s NASPA Word List, would include the offensive words but not provide definitions. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, intended for casual play, would exclude several offensive words. [5]
If played with Scrabble tiles, the game of Anagrams can use their letter values for scoring. Other scoring systems include: Simple letter count. The most tiles win. Simple word count. The most words win. Add letter point values, using Scrabble letter values. Remove one or two letters from each word and count the remaining tiles, rewarding ...
In a similar vein to Scrabble, groups can play Quiddler with varying degrees of competition. Players in highly competitive games may consider memorizing lists of two- and three-letter words. It is also a good idea to know whether the game dictionary includes colloquial and contemporary words.
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.
Yes. Yes. Support 100 times over, Soo. I'm rather fond of that talaq factoid we had earlier (that it's the only word which'll hook a Q at the end..) We're not Scrabble players in heart at this moment. We're encyclopedists. And as an encyclopedic list it is categorically the best of its kind. Bobo192. 03:12, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Jumble is a word puzzle with a clue, a drawing illustrating the clue, and a set of words, each of which is “jumbled” by scrambling its letters. A solver reconstructs the words, and then arranges letters at marked positions in the words to spell the answer phrase to the clue.