![]() So which new word is his favorite? “I like eggcorn,” Sokolowski said, “because it’s a word about words.” And he added, “You’ve got some fun new words.” ![]() He said the players should hunt them down on their own. Sokolowski would not say what all the 500 new words were. They may, however, still be present in older Scrabble dictionaries. In the last year or two, Scrabble has also removed more than 200 offensive words. Horchata is a sweet drink and kabocha is a winter squash.įor the rest, you will have to look them up yourself. Mofongo is a traditional food from Puerto Rico. ![]() Scrabble players, however, only care about scoring more points with the words than their meaning.īut if you want to know: Iftar is a meal taken by Muslims at sundown to break the daily fast during the holiday season of Ramadan. They include iftar, horchata, kabocha, mofongo, zoodle, wagyu, and queso. The editors have also added many new words related to food. The latest edition adds about 500 new words for Scrabble play. This photo shows the cover of the seventh edition of “The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary” released in November. You didn’t read it that often,” Sokolowski said. So a term like yeehaw, which we all know from our childhood and in movies and TV, was something you heard. They were more spoken than written, and the gold standard for dictionary editing was always written evidence. “Yeehaw is like so many of the older, informal terms. The new dictionary includes at least one old-sounding word that simply was forgotten for years: yeehaw. They may sound familiar, but they were never in Scrabble’s official dictionary. So are words with “un,” such as unfollow and unsub. In the new dictionary, there are deadname, pageview, babymoon, and subtweet. Sokolowski told the Associated Press, “We also turned verb into a verb so you can play verbed and verbing.”Ĭompound words are words created by combining two or more words. And there are more variations in the use of nouns as verbs, like adulted and adulting. The new words include shorter versions of other words like guac for guacamole. Other eight-letter words include hogsbane, more commonly known as giant hogweed, and pranayam, a breathing technique in yoga. For example, “I really need to embiggen that Scrabble dictionary.” Embiggen, a verb meaning to increase in size, is among the unexpected. Sokolowski said the new word fauxhawk has the highest possible points for a new word.įauxhawk is a haircut similar to a Mohawk. He said the editors look at the often-updated online database at to expand the Scrabble dictionary.īut Scrabble players only look for eight-letter words that help them clear their racks for 50 extra points. Peter Sokolowski is Merriam-Webster’s editor at large. The book was last brought up to date in 2018 through a longstanding partnership between Hasbro, the maker of Scrabble, and the Merriam-Webster dictionary. They will be a part of the more than 100,000 words of two to eight letters in the dictionary. Some of the new words include stan, sitch, convo, zedonk, dox, and fauxhawk. This month, the game is about to get more interesting with 500 new words and variations added to The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. It helps when a player remembers unusual words to use in the game. ![]() ![]() Scrabble is a popular word game in which players put letters of the alphabet together to form words. ![]()
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