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Tried to use word BIGA, and a pop-up says it wasn't a legal word in America.
I found it on 3 dictionary sites.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/biga
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/biga
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@ann-mills You're looking at the wrong dictionaries. Tournament Scrabble uses two separate English dictionaries or 'word lists'. I believe Lexulous uses these as well. Their names have changed a few times so it's sometimes a little confusing. Wikipedia has up to date info.
The USA and Canada use this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASPA_Word_List (BIGA and its plural form BIGAE are not included)
The UK and the rest of the world use this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins_Scrabble_Words (BIGA and BIGAE are both valid)
I've also noticed that a lot of Canadians like to use the UK dictionary. I personally enjoy US and UK games so use both. You'll generally find that everything that's included in the US dictionary is also valid in the UK one, but certainly not the other way round.
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@dan-mitchell, I think that the CSW19(Collin's Scrabble Words) is filled with contrived words and words that were originally not in SOWPODS because it claimed to forbid words by shortening, acronyms and slang and did a reasonable, if not complete, job of that. By contrived words, i mean words that are "made up" with the sole purpose of advancing play in word games. Where ZEN used to be used as an example of what were not playable words in SOWPODS, it is now a part of CSW19. ZE was recently added to CSW19 and I feel it is a just a matter of time before we see a two letter "V" word. Too many words of CSW19, show in the Collin's dictionary as "no definition
found".
I am still back with the TWL98+(and previous and successive issues of TWL --"The Word List") for US Scrabble and SOWPODS for British tournament play. -
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@betterlate1-0 latest edition OSPD if interested
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@betterlate1-0 almost forgot 300 new words
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@betterlate1-0 That happened in Sept 2018 with OSPD 6.
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@mapmakere and your point?
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@betterlate1-0 That it's not new information.
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@mapmakere never said it was..just gave where they could see all at one time gees when do you stop? i cant ever be as perfect as you lol
