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The Scrabble dictionary has been updated for the archetypal clip since 2018, and it includes 500 caller words — though Scrabble won’t uncover what each 1 is, telling players to hunt done the caller dictionary to find them all. They’ve besides removed respective 100 slurs and different violative words, truthful that they can’t beryllium played successful authoritative tournaments.
Some of the caller words bespeak changes successful exertion and civilization since the past update, including “torrenting”, “doxxed”, “subtweet”, “pageview”, “unsub”, “stan”, and “vaxxed”.
Others are slang words that volition person immoderate connection nerds cringing, similar “embiggen”, “verbed”, “bae”, “thingies”, “adorbs”, “swole”, and “folx”.
Alongside slang words and caller words, determination are besides immoderate older ones that person conscionable entered the dictionary, similar “yeehaw” and “dumpster” — antecedently a trademarked word.
There’s a full cornucopia of nutrient words that person been entered, too, including dishes from astir the world. Some see “guac”, “horchata”, “queso”, “zaatar”, and “matcha”.
Some amusive caller additions are words astir words similar “grawlix”, a bid of symbols similar @#$%&! utilized to correspond swearing, and “eggcorn”, which is simply a connection oregon operation created by mishearing the close term.
A mates different notable caller Scrabble words are “fauxhawk” (which volition people you rather a fewer points), “jedi”, “zoomer”, and “zonkey” (a transverse betwixt a donkey and zebra).
Check retired adjacent much caller Scrabble words astatine Huffpost.
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