| The term SOWPODS was coined to cover the
convergence of the two International Scrabble©
word sources, OSW and OSPD, as deployed for the 1991
World Scrabble©
Championships in London and subsequent World Championships. SOWPODS
is an acronym derived from anagramming OSW and OSPD.
Official
Tournament and Club Word List (OWL)
OWL is an expanded version of the Official Scrabble Players
Dictionary (OSPD) [3rd edition]. The additional words included in
OWL (but not OSPD) are mostly those which were expurgated (censored)
from OSPD for the popular market, i.e. words (arbitrarily)
considered offensive. OWL also goes up to 9 letters (plus
extensions), whereas OSPD only goes up to 8 letters (plus
extensions). OWL is "published" by the National Scrabble
Association (NSA) in the United States. It is distributed to NSA
members only. OWL is primarily used in North American and Israel.
OWL is also known as TWL98, which means Tournament Word List.
OWL2/LWL
contains the words from the Official Word List 2nd edition, plus the Long
Word List. The OWL2 contains words up to nine letters long
plus their inflections, while the LWL contains words 10-15 letters long.
OSW
itself stands for Official Scrabble©
Words, a publication derived solely from the Chambers Dictionary,
published in Scotland. OSW is exclusively used in the United Kingdom
only.
CSW07 List, Collins
Tournament and Club Word List. This is the authority for all
tournament and club play. All tournaments which are either run
and/or rated by the ABSP use this reference work as the arbiter
for determining the validity of every word played. It contains
every word added to TWL last year, and more new words obtained
from Collins English Dictionary.
CSW or Collins Scrabble Words
is the global world source used in Scrabble. CSW2012 is the
newest edition, in previous years the global word list was also
known as SOWPODS. CSW is not a single dictionary but an amalgam
of three: Collins (7th edition, 2005), Chambers (1998 edition)
and TWL, the current Northern American wordlist. TWL itself is
also drawn from a range of sources.
From January 2012 we will
only be
using CSW2012, (Collins
Tournament and Club Word List 2012).
OSPD
stands for Official Scrabble©
Players Dictionary, a publication derived primarily from the
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, but also including words from four
other major college dictionaries. It is published by
Merriam-Webster, in the United States. OSPD is exclusively used in
North America, Thailand, and Israel.
OSPD4
is a major update of OSPD3, and contains many words found in
SOWPODS and OWL/TWL98.
The
following countries are known to be fully SOWPODS:- Australia,
Bahrain, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia,
Malta, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Trinidad, United Arab
Emirates, United Kingdom. Source
OWL1,
OWL2 and CSW List have been added to cater for the Tournament Players who
play here. The all dictionaries search results page provides all
lookups to accommodate all players. OSPD4 is used primarily in
Canada, US, Thailand, and Israel. SOWPODS is used internationally.
Note,
we used freely available files off the Net as the dictionaries here.
If there are any errors you know of, please consult the actual book.
It would be nice if you tell us, so we can update our
database.
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