Scrabble Dictionary Adds 500 New Words — VOA Learning English

Article · Language: English · Level: hard · Author: VOA Learning English · ≈ 4 min · 569 words

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Scrabble is a popular word game in which players put letters of the alphabet together to form words. It helps when a player remembers unusual words to use in the game.

This month, the game is about to get more interesting with 500 new words and variations added to The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.

Some of the new words include stan, sitch, convo, zedonk, dox, and fauxhawk. They will be a part of the more than 100,000 words of two to eight letters in the dictionary.

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.

New words

Peter Sokolowski is Merriam-Webster’s editor at large. He…

Tap any word for its translation at once; the word goes into your deck together with its sentence.

Leanne Italie reported this story for The Associated Press. Gregory Stachel adapted it for VOA Learning English.

Source: learningenglish.voanews.com/a/scrabble-dictionary-adds-500-new-words/6839089.htm

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