Scrabble International

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Usethis Scrabble dictionary checker tool to find out whether a word is acceptable in your scrabble dictionary. When you enter a word and click on Check Dictionary button, it simply tells you whether it's valid or not, and list out the dictionaries in case of valid word. Additionally, you can also read the meaning if you want to know more about a particular word.

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Formed in 2003, WESPA (the World English Language Scrabble Players Association) provides an official structure for the international Scrabble community. We support Associations with internationally recognized rules and a ratings system whilst promoting a global calendar of Scrabble events designed to cater for players of all ages and levels.

WESPA maintains a calendar of approved events for rating, the most recent of which are viewable on this homepage. The full calendar is available by clicking on the link mentioned (or via the Tournaments Tab in our Navigation Bar).

Format: A maximum of 34 games of 50 minutes each will be played over four days. Word source will be the latest Collins Scrabble Tournament and Club Word List 2015.

Challenge: 5-point penalty per word, the player does not lose turn.

Entry fee: The tournament is conducted by KSSA who will collect the entry fee. The association promotes competitive scrabble in Karnataka and in association with the Scrabble Association of India the rest of the country as well. Entry fee can be paid on the day of the tournament.

Note: Please remember to get the following details. Winners have to furnish the details as the prize money will be transferred directly to their bank account:

1. Name of the Bank

2. Account Number

3. Name of the beneficiary

4. Bank swift code for wire transfer

5. Email address

6. Your postal address

7. Your telephone number

SCRABBLE is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by Mattel / J.W. Spear & Sons Limited

I hope to teach you how to improve your Scrabble game. Provide insight into game analysis, explain move selection, and share ways to boost your scores in those many tricky Scrabble Go modes in my blog posts. So please feel free to drop a comment or ask a question on any of my posts in the Scrabble forum. I may end up writing some unique blog posts to answer them!

I always played against my father, and I quickly improved and started beating him with regularity. To help me improve further, he took me to the weekly Aylesbury Scrabble Club located about 20 minutes away from my home. I just turned seven years old. There were seasoned tournament Scrabble players in attendance with many decades of experience, and I was there to learn the ropes. On my first day, I played against a lady rated about 1200 and was the second strongest player at the club. For scale, the highest-rated players in the world are over 1900, and beginner level is around 500. It was fair to say that I was immediately thrown in the deep end, and it was an instant litmus test. I ended up playing two games that night, both against her, and I went 1-1 (win-loss record). As you can imagine, a seven-year-old rookie that turns up to a Scrabble club for the first time and beats a seasoned tournament player would turn some heads. But at the time, I was playing the game that I loved, utterly oblivious to what was going on around me.

Buoyed by a successful outing, I continued my rookie year playing in more tournaments across the country. However, just two months after my first tournament, I was already competing in my fourth tournament in Pinner, London. This was a tournament of three divisions and about 80 players in total. I eventually won division 3 with a perfect 6-0 record.

Almost a year from my tournament debut, I won a division 2 event in Melton Mowbray with a 5-0 record. At that same event the following year, I was rated high enough to play in my first ever division 1 tournament. A sign of things to come as my rating steadily increased and pushed through the 1400 and 1500 rating barriers. In July 2001, I won my last ever division 2 tournament and never played in division 2 ever again.

Speaking of setting records in 2002, Melton Mowbray was the backdrop for my first ever division 1 tournament win. I became the youngest ever UK division 1 tournament winner at 12 years and four months old, an ABSP record that still stands today.

By 2004, I had added three more tournament titles, my rating was approaching 1800, and I was beginning to travel abroad to play Scrabble internationally. However, the trials and tribulations of international Scrabble will wait for another day. I have plenty of funny, compelling, and bizarre stories to tell, as I have traveled abroad almost every year since then to compete in at least one international tournament!

On the international stage, after a selection tournament, Adheesha Dissanayake, Ilham Irshad, and Inam Irshad all qualified for the World Youth Championships in Thailand, representing the national team. This was the highest number of players of a single school in the 10-person national team. Out of a field of 142 of the best Scrabble Players from around the world, the Sri Lankan players excelled at the event, securing the top three positions and winning the Best Team award. Adheesha finished in second place and also topped the U16 category. Meanwhile, Ilham and Inam Irshad placed 13th and 44th respectively, with Inam also achieving 2nd runner-up in the U12 category. Imad Irshad, attending as a private candidate, won the High Game award.

Well, if you really are that much of a Scrabble nerd, you're in luck! I present for you the complete list of Scrabble's 2-letter words along with their definitions (and whether you can extend them with an "S", an "ES", or something a little more bizarre (EEN, for instance).

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Scrabble play in North America uses the OWL (or TWL), which translates to the "Official Tournament and Word List". It's used for competitive play, and there are only 101 acceptable two-letter words. Also, home and school play in the United States and Canada contain these 101 words in the OSPD (Official Scrabble Players Dictionary).

This list contains 124 two-letter words, which are from the SOWPODS, which is an anagram of the acronyms OSPD (Official Scrabble Players Dictionary - North American) and OSW (Official Scrabble Words - British). This list is more for international Scrabble play and world competitions.

The exact definition given in the OSPD4 for BO is "a pal". If it's slang, it's become common enough in North America to move it from "slang" to an actual "word". It has to become pretty widely used in order to gain this status. Just like "ZA" (pizza) has become widely used (even though I've never used it).

The definition provided by the Collins (OSW) Dictionary is "exclamation used to startle or surprise someone, especially a child in a game".

These 2 definitions show how different a word can mean from one country to another.

Are "short forms" technically different from abbreviations? If abbreviations are not allowed, then how can words such as "ab" or "ad", or "ag", "mo", etc., which are defined as short forms of words, be allowed?

Also, "et" as past tense of "to eat" I have heard but "can be extended with "s". "Ets"?? Can someone use that in a sentence? I can't come up with one where the equivalent of "ate" can be extended with an "s".

Shorts forms are "words" you would actually say out loud. They're kind of slang versions of their longer counterparts used in everyday speech. Ab, ad, and ag are all terms you'll hear thrown about in normal conversation, pronounced as such.

Abbreviations are not words, just shortened versions of words, more for use in written form and usually includes a dot, like ct., mt., and st. Their spoken versions are pronounced using their original long versions (count, mount, street).

I would assume that they haven't upgraded to the OSPD5 yet, since DA was a new inclusion to the Scrabble Dictionary. In the game's "help" page, it makes it look like it's still using the OSPD4 dictionary, even though the "about" section has the OSPD5 edition listed. Who knows when they'll actually update the game. The new dictionary has been out for months now. The mobile version is the same way, and even the Scrabble dictionary iOS app hasn't been updated yet. Very slow progress on OSPD5 adaption.

Nigel Richards won the World Championship event in 2007, 2011 and 2013, and Alastair Richards (no relation) won it in 2021. Nigel has also won the French-language World Championships twice, as well as countless other major world events.

Alchemist Cup

The 10-team, elite, international tournament was to have taken place in Penang, Malaysia, in December 2020. New Zealand had a team of five players, including then world champion and world No 1 Nigel Richards, and current world champ Alastair Richards. Unfortunately the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Forty-six players from 10 countries are set to take part in the Eighth Israeli Open Scrabble Tournament in Tiberias, on February 19-21, 2016. The annual mind-sport contest is a banner event for Scrabble devotees in Israel and beyond.

Members of the Tel Aviv Scrabble Club, which attracts about 35 players each week from across the country (Arad to Carmiel), regularly participate in international Scrabble contests. This past November, three Tel Aviv club members represented Israel at the 2015 Scrabble World Championship in Perth, Australia.

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