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.

2,000 words have been added to the Scrabble dictionary, including many slang terms commonly used by Gen Z. Erin Cadigan – stock.adobe.com ...

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 ...

“It’s less of a word-finding game, and more of a word-picking game,” said Will Anderson, a North American Scrabble Championship winner who appears in The New Yorker video.

Former Scrabble World Champion Joel Sherman believes the new words won’t have a major effect on the game. “Dumpster has been a word in our dictionary for … a long time,” said top-ranking ...

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 ...

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 ...