But if a competitor formally challenges you as to whether a word is spelled correctly - or whether it exists within the game’s official dictionary - you’re obligated to check. Maybe you play with nice friends and family who let your word choices slide. If you love Scrabble, then you’ve probably hit your head against the gulf between the official game dictionary and the broader, evolving “dictionary” of spoken language. Pig Latin has also, amusingly, been upgraded from noun to verb forms - previously you could play ixnay, now you can play ixnayed and ixnaying. Lots of new compound words have also been added, including deadname and pageview. There are lots of new tasty word additions like matcha, horchata, marg (for margarita), iftar, wagyu, kabocha, and zaatar (which is typically spelled za’atar, but Scrabble rules mean that words with apostrophes, like possessives, aren’t playable). Here are some of our favorite new words: bae, inspo, yeehaw, sitch (which I am imagining in Kim Possible’s voice), welp, jedi, dox, folx, hangry, spork (how was this not a word before?), convo, vaxxed, thingie, onesie, swole, inspo, and atting (as in the symbol), among others. Now in its Seventh Edition, The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary was last updated in 2018, so there’s a lot of fertile ground to cover. Roughly 500 new words have been added to the Scrabble dictionary, including stan, torrent, vibing, subtweet ( though who knows how long that one will be relevant), zoomer, and adulting. Extremely online Scrabble players are in luck.
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