SOWPODS is a term used to refer to the word list used in tournament Scrabble in all English-speaking countries[1] except the USA, Canada, Thailand and Israel[2], which use the American Tournament Word List or TWL. The verb "to scrabble" also means to scratch scramble or scrape about see Wiktionaryscrabble. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The Kingdom of Thailand (ˈtaɪlænd ราชอาณาจักรไทย, râːtɕʰa-ʔaːnaːtɕɑ̀k-tʰɑj For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. Official Tournament and Club Word List or Tournament Word List, referred to as OTaCWL, OWL, or TWL, is the official word authority for tournament Official Scrabble Words: International Edition, published by Chambers, was the book used for word adjudication in international tournaments and all tournaments played to the SOWPODS word list, from its publication in 2001 until the adoption of Collins Scrabble Tournament and Club Word List, in 2007. The SOWPODS word list comprises words from two official dictionaries used in various parts of the world—Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD, derived from the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and four other college dictionaries), and Official Scrabble Words (OSW, derived from the Chambers Dictionary). The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary or OSPD is a dictionary developed for use in the game Scrabble, by speakers of United States English Webster's Dictionary is the name given to a common type of English language dictionary in the United States. The tenth edition of The Chambers Dictionary of the English language was published in 2006 by Chambers Harrap Publishers. The name is an anagram of the two abbreviations. An anagram ( Greek anagramma 'letters written anew' passive participle of ana- 'again' + gramma 'letter' is a type of Word play For the HTML tag see HTML element. An abbreviation (from Latin brevis "short"
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History
In 1980 in the United Kingdom, the Chambers Dictionary[3] replaced the Shorter Oxford Dictionary as the official choice for arbitration of the British National Scrabble Championship. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The tenth edition of The Chambers Dictionary of the English language was published in 2006 by Chambers Harrap Publishers. The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) published by the Oxford University Press (OUP is a comprehensive Dictionary of the English In 1988 for the first time a single list of all the valid words, without the ambiguity of discussing conjugations, declensions and plurals was published under the title Official Scrabble Words from Chambers (this would come to be known as OSW). In Linguistics, declension (or declination) is the occurrence of Inflection in Nouns Pronouns and Adjectives indicating Plural is a Grammatical number, typically referring to more than one of the Referent in the real world North American Scrabble was using the OSPD, hence when the first World Scrabble Championship took place in 1991 words from either word source were allowed. This article is about the tournament in English For other uses see World Scrabble Championships.
Over the following years debate raged in the competitive Scrabble community over the desirability of a combined word source, which came to be known as SOWPODS as an easily-pronounced anagram of OSW and OSPD. Australia changed all its rated tournaments to using the SOWPODS word list in 1994, while the UK made the same change in 2001. This latter move coincided with the publication of the first official book to contain all words from OSW and OSPD (Chambers' Official Scrabble Words: International Edition).
Word count
SOWPODS 2006 includes 267,751 words[4], of which there are:
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