Month: November 2023

The provisional word list for school, church, etc. list has come out. They removed some words that are surprising to me. Hopefully they will get some blowback and restore a few. For what it’s worth, I only play using the tourney and club lexicon for North American, because that is the list I’d encounter in a club or tourney setting.

The lexicon on this site known as “OSPD” is actually now the list known as NSWL2023 (provisional). They will finalize this list in a few weeks, and I’ll make another minor update.

This list is not used on the Gladiators sister site since that is a tourney site.

The raw statistics:

Total # of words : 195763

Adding 4618 words

Removing 331 words

On ChezMoi, press “members” button and then click “USEFUL SCRABBLE STUFF” and you’ll find a link near the top that has the complete transition list. I will post a note and update that list if any changes occur with the final word list.

CSW (SOWPODS) and OSPD coming soon, too.

First up, installed TODAY: OWL (NWL2023). The “OWL” (Official Word List) lexicon on Chez and Gladiators have both been updating. Please report any issues on the forum, or with a comment here.

In near future, OSPD (I still need to get a complete list in a single file), and presumably, the international list (the one called SOWPODS here). I’ve let the SOWPODS list from a few years ago continue… all the 2021 CSW update did was remove some words considered offensive. When the next update comes out and I upload it to the site, those words will be removed at last, plus thousands more added.

This new OWL/NWL2023 lexicon, the most popular on Chez and Glad, is the official word list for use in club and tournament play in North America. Stats about the change:

There are too many to list here. Useful transition lists will appear on club sites soon, I would hope.

I posted the full added/removed word list (from OWL 2020 list to 2023) on Chez: click the “members” link, then press the “Useful Scrabble Stuff” link, and a page will open with the complete set of added (top) and removed (bottom) words.

A tiny sampling of newbies (two of these I tried in the past month…!)

bae
coulda
dox
fam
fav
finna
folx
fugly
glamp
goy
guac
haos
hos
hoss
hygge
jedi
jiaos
loc
mpox
noob
outie
pedi
pwn
roid
tasered
thwap
vax
vaxx
vaxxed
vaxxes
vaxxing
wanna
yaje
yajes
zonkey
zuke