It’s the game to end all games, and to start all fights, and now it’s gotten even trickier – the official Scrabble dictionary has some new words!
We all turn to this book to prove that the word we put down was, in fact, a real word, and now your grandkids will be able to prove their lingo is worthy of 13 points.
A staggering 6,500 words have been added to the Collins Official Scrabble Words book, which brings the total approved words to over 250,000.
Yeesh, you and your bezzy will have some serious Facetime with all the new words, obvz. (sorry!)
Most are slang words or derived from technology, plus a few onomatopoeic terms for good measure.
Helen Newstead, the head of language at Collins told The Guardian, “Dictionaries have always included formal and informal English. But it used to be hard to find printed evidence of the use of slang words.
“Now people use slang in social media posts, tweets, blogs, comments, text messages – you name it – so there’s a host of evidence for informal varieties of English that simply didn’t exist before”.
It’s not new for slang to be included in the Scrabble game, nor is it banned to use a swear word.
Here are the new words added to Scrabble Dictionary:
Slang words and modern society
Technology and electronic communications
Highest scoring and useful words
Onomatopoeic interjections
Tell us, will you remember to use any of these words in your next game?