
The first edition of OSPD went on sale in 1978. The second list, referred to as the New Word List, took effect on 1994–05–01. The first list took effect on a date not currently known to the editor of this webpage. The NSA updated it twice by the publication of correction word lists. Preceded by OSPD1 and succeeded by OTCWL1. It was the official word reference for words of up to eight letters and their inflections, The second edition of OSPD went on sale in April 1991. It was edited in tandem with the first edition of OTCWL, and was the first edition that did not include words that might cause offence. The third edition of OSPD went on sale on.
Updated to include new vocabulary such as facepalm, listicle, bitcoin, and emoji.
Features more than 100,000 playable two- to eight-letter words including many newly added entries. The fourth edition of OSPD went on sale on. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Edition 6) (Paperback) 5 4.8 out of 5 Stars. Larger lexicon which are considered appropriate for school and recreational play, It was edited in tandem with OTCWL2014, and contains those words from that The fifth edition of OSPD went on sale on August 6, 2014. The sixth edition of the OSPD was released on September 24, 2018. Instantly search the official scrabble dictionary of 192, 111 words.
OSPD is available to the general public wherever books are sold OTCWL is available only to NASPA members at the NASPA Store. Scrabble Check is a simple tool that checks if a word is valid in the latest official Scrabble dictionary. OSPD omits words that are considered inappropriate for school play, as well as words whose trademark status is in doubt. Is your word an official SCRABBLE one Over 500 new playable words including bae, hygge, matcha, spork, and zonkey Features more than 100,000 playable two- to eight- letter words, with variant spelling and thorough coverage of Canadian and British words. And when an open-source alternative to the Scrabble dictionary called ENABLE (an acronym for Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon) was released in 1997, it too considered abbreviations verboten. OSPD is used in homes and at charity events (since 2015, school competitions use the School SCRABBLE Word List) OTCWL is used in regular competitive play. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, first published in 1978, has followed those instructions to the letter. OSPD has brief definitions and indicates parts of speech OTCWL is a pure alphabetical word list. There are inevitably therefore differences in content, either because new words have entered the language in the interval between the publication of the two works, or because editors have differed concerning the acceptability of words. For production reasons, OSPD and OTCWL are not edited at exactly the same time or by the same staff. By contrast, OTCWL lists all acceptable words, including those of 15 letters, the width of the board. Longer words are playable in standard SCRABBLE play, either when a player makes a word using more than one tile already on the board, or when a player incorrectly has more than 7 tiles on their rack. By design and largely for economic reasons, OSPD does not include base words longer than 8 letters.