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Specific requirements must be met: According to the press release, the words must be entries in a standard dictionary, be between two and eight letters in length, and can’t be abbreviated words, capitalized words or words containing hyphens or apostrophes. New words don’t just enter the Scrabble dictionary willy-nilly (which, incidentally, is not included in the game’s official dictionary). “o much of our communication is texting and social media,” he says. It’s a sure bet that many players will be pleased to find that among the new entries are some long-awaited two-letter power plays, such as “ew.” In an interview with Leanne Italie at the Associated Press, Sokolowski refers to two-letter and three-letter words as the “lifeblood of the game,” and says that the inclusion of words like “ew” fit an evolving English-language lexicon. The new additions bring the acceptable Scrabble lexicon up to more than 100,000 two- to eight-letter words. “For a living language, the only constant is change,” says Peter Sokolowski, editor at large for Merriam-Webster in a press release. Brace yourself, Scrabble fiends: More than 300 new words have been adopted, and the compilers have embraced some millennial mainstays like “twerk,” “emoji” and “listicle.” This week, the sixth edition of the dictionary has dropped. By 1978, the first edition of The Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary had made its debut. According to David Bukszpan’s book Is That A Word? From AA to ZZZ: The Weird and Wonderful Language of Scrabble, it was Scrabble’s growing popularity in the 1960s, and its adoption on the “penny-a-point” chess club circuit in Manhattan (aka “once money became involved”), which forced the game to adopt an official dictionary. It was only in the early 1950s-just a few years after the game had been rebranded “Scrabble”-that it began to fly off the shelves.īut the game still needed to be standardized. Initially dubbed “Lexiko,” the game underwent several retoolings in the decade that followed, but failed to gain any traction. As a jobless architect living in the Great Depression, there’s no way Alfred Mosher Butts could have foreseen the 1933 board game he invented would one day be found in three out of every five American homes.