Also on the list of 6,500 new Scrabble words: aji (the pepper), coqui (the frog) and the more old-fashioned ixnay and zowee. Or you could just say yeesh — if you've got the right tiles.

INSKEEP: It's added 6,500 words to the official U.K. Scrabble list, words like twerking or cakehole. MONTAGNE: And new tech terms are on the list, too, like emoji, facetime and hashtag.

In the 1980s, when Brian Sheppard created a computer program that played Scrabble, he typed in a lot of words—more than 100,000 of them, from the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and Merriam ...

The NASPA's permitted word list is different from the official Scrabble Merriam-Webster dictionary, which has removed offensive words throughout the years, according to John Chew, ...

If you’re planning on breaking out the family Scrabble board at Thanksgiving, you might get some help from zoodle, jedi, babymoon and about 500 other words newly added to the official playing ...

The Scrabble dictionary by Collins, published on Thursday, adds to the 276,000 words already in play, making it the most comprehensive Scrabble word list ever produced, Collins said in a news release.

(CNN) — The Scrabble dictionary has added lotsa of new words for its players, and some are so ridic, they’ll make you lolz. The venerable board game has an additional 6,500 words, including a ...

Derogatory words dumped. The word war erupted when words began to be removed from the game’s official word lists over the past 12 months. Invented in the US in 1938, Scrabble is now owned by two ...

The complete list of Scrabble-friendly words can be accessed on Merriam-Webster’s Scrabble Word Finder. rd.com, via amazon.com (3) Classic Board Games Everyone Should Own.

The updated word list, which includes more than just modern slang, will appear on Scrabble’s online checker September 1. As of now, Words With Friends, the popular game app, did not include the ...

Hasbro and Merriam-Webster have added more than 500 new words to the official Scrabble dictionary, which consists of all of the game’s playable words. It now includes words like “adorbs ...

A new batch of 6,500 words are now available to Scrabble players, after publishing house Collins updated its widely used Official Scrabble Words list Thursday. The list includes tech jargon and ...