Today’s top Scrabble players go way beyond the “twos” and “threes.” They memorize all of the four- and five-letter words too. And the sixes and sevens and eights and nines.

You can also play some new eight-letter words, the ones that help players clear their seven-tile racks for 50 extra points. Those are hogsbane (commonly known as giant hogweed) and pranayama (a ...

MT. LEBANON, Pa. (KDKA) - Five hundred new words have been added to the Scrabble dictionary. As KDKA scrabble player Jon Delano reports, many of those words are familiar to Millennials and Gen Z ...

Hasbro and Merriam-Webster have added more than 500 new words to the official Scrabble dictionary, which consists of all of the game’s playable words. It now includes words like “adorbs ...

In the last year or two, the Scrabble lexicon has been scrubbed of 200-plus racial, ethnic and otherwise offensive words — despite their presence in some dictionaries. That has prompted furious debate ...

In Scrabble, words are valuable resources — the more you have, the greater your chances of success. And while most of the 200,000 words in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary are relatively ...

The word war erupted when words began to be removed from the game’s official word lists over the past 12 months. Invented in the US in 1938, Scrabble is now owned by two of the world’s biggest ...