Word Lists for competitive Scrabble
The Scrabble FAQ
doesn't itself offer any substantial word
lists[1],
but numerous other sites provide a good variety of useful ones.
TWL06:
- Mike Baron
- The Cheat Sheet: 2lw and hooks, 3lw, short J, Q, X words, vowel dumps,
top 6-letter stems[2] (all on one sheet)
- Ottawa Scrabble Club Study Room
- Lists in usefulness order (computer simulation frequencies), bingo stems[2],
short words, vowel/consonant dumps; also Web-based quizzes
- Paul Phillips
- All 7lw & 8lw in probability order; plus interesting transitional
OWL98->TWL06 word lists
- John
O'Laughlin
- Creative, often new, lists
- Mike Wolfberg
- new hooks, new word definitions by word length, high probability
7lw & 8lw
OSPD/OTCWL/OWL[3], not known to be updated for TWL06:
- Rick Wong
- Several lists, including definitions of 2- and 3-letter words.
- John
Chew
- plausible phonies, phonies with anagrams, and 6-to-make-8
"unistems" as well as
anamonics
[see explanations in FAQ] and
TWL change explanations
- Dallas,
TX, club
- 2- and 3-letter words, stems[2],
subject-matter groups, endings and TWL changes
- Bob Weiss
- 2- and 3-letter words, all hooks, vowel-heavy and -light,
stems[2], pre- and suf-fixes
[from Internet Archive]
- Brian Wagner
- vowels-heavy, JKQXZ, pre- and suf-fixes
- Jim Homan
- OSPD2->3 additions [only SPAZES and HERPESES were deleted]
- Thomas Ford
- 2->3 and 3->4 hooks, vowel dumps, jqxz words, major stems[2]
- Jonn Dalton
- 2->3->4->5->6 hooks, all 6->7 and 7->8 stems[2], more
- Jim Geary
- OTaCWL 2s and 3s
- Lawren Freebody
- topical lists, including
OSW-only
twos and
threes
- Michael
Waddell
- lists, including quizzes
- Japanese words
- in TWL98
- Amit Chakrabarti
- Words with multiple spellings and acronyms/portmanteaux
SOWPODS[4]:
- Hervé
- All 7s and 8s by alphragram (PDF file)
- ASPA
- 2-, 3- and 4-letter words; definitions of 3s
JQXZ words; high-vowel words; stems[2]; surprising words
- Bob
Jackman
- 2-, 3- and 4-letter words, high-prob 7s and 8s and
SOWPODS crossover lists
- John
Holgate
- Top 7lw and 8lw stems[2], hooks of 2-letter words, Q w/o U,
JQXZ, high-vowel 7lw and 8lw
- Martin Gardner
- mostly high-probability words
[1]
Other than a small set of changes between
OSPD3 and the current OTCWL.
[2]
A stem is a set of letters considered with respect to letters
which can be added to make an anagrammable set.
[3]
For a sorting out of all the dictionary terminology,
see John Chew's
explanation.
[4]
"SOWPODS" is the union of the British and North American lexicons.
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