Contents • • • • • • Current edition [ ] North American tournament Scrabble currently uses the third edition of OWL (variously referred to as OWL3, OTCWL2014, TWL3, and TWL2014). This version was created by the (NASPA) Dictionary Committee in 2014 and took effect on April 1, 2015. OWL3 contains every word in the fifth edition of the, but also includes words considered unsuitable for that book. In 2016, 1,106 words were added to OWL3; all were nine-letter words and their plurals/inflections. FENCEWIRE is an example of a word that was added.
Past editions [ ] The decision to the OSPD's third edition by removing a large number of possibly offensive words necessitated a separate, unabridged word list for tournament use. The first edition of OWL was created by the NSA Dictionary Committee, chaired by, and took effect on March 2, 1998. To avoid controversy, it was available for sale only to NSA members, and unlike the OSPD, did not include definitions.
Win Scrabble Games! Scrabble Cheat with Dictionary for Scrabble games in UK, Australia and New Zealand. Sowpods refers to the word list used in tournament Scrabble in English-speaking countries except the USA, Canada, Thailand and Israel, where the American Tournament Word List is used.The main game room on Quadplex uses the Sowpods word list and a TWL gameroom is available as well.
To provide additional value for tournament players, the OWL includes words whose base or inflected forms have up to nine letters, rather than the OSPD's eight. OSPD3 was created from OSPD2 by adding all appropriate words that had been added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (MWCD) in the interim; OWL was then formed by restoring the possibly offensive words removed from OSPD3, and adding nine-letter words from MWCD.
Other word authorities [ ] Unlike the, OWL is a list and does not include definitions. OWL also contains words not included in OSPD because they are considered, and a number of other additional words (mostly registered trademarks). Print versions of OWL can be procured from Merriam-Webster's customer service department by NASPA members only. OWL is supplemented by the NSA Dictionary Committee's Official Long List, which includes all acceptable 10- to 15-letter words not already included in the OWL. The word list was compiled using, 10th edition. Word count [ ] OTCWL2014 words by number of letters (total: 187,632) Letters Word count 2.