Thursday, May 22, 2008

The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary Third Edition

This dictionary is copyrighted 1995 by Milton Bradley Company and the hardcover edition is
ISBN 0877792208.

Proper names, words requiring hyphens or apostrophes, foreign words, abbreviations and offensive slang words have been omitted from the dictionary. This means x-ray, icecream, fuck and shit are not listed as x-ray uses a hyphen, ice cream is two words and the other two are offensive.

The dictionary includes Canadian spellings such as honor, centre and cheque.

A 41 pages
B 42 pages
C 57 pages
D 37 pages
E 24 pages
F 32 pages
G 26 pages
H 24 pages
I 16 pages
J 8 pages
K 10 pages
L 26 pages
M 38 pages
N 15 pages
O 23 pages
P 53 pages
Q 4 pages
R 36 pages
S 82 pages
T 40 pages
U 17 pages
V 13 pages
W 20 pages
X 1 page
Y 4 pages
Z 4 pages
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693 pages in total

There are 69 entries per page.

After all nouns, plurals are listed.
After all verbs inflections -ed -ing and -s are listed.
After all adjectives -ier and -iest are listed.
All adverbs ending in -ly have a separate listing.

Brief definitions of each word are listed.

If the word is 9 letters or more, use Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary 10th edition to look it up.

Use the dictionary to look up a word if a challenge to a word is given by your opponent.

Use the dictionary to generate word lists and as input into a computer program to generate Scrabble word lists.

The Scrabble Dictionary includes words listed in at least 2 of 5 dictionaries of a collection of 5 dictionaries.

The Scrabble Dictionary includes about 82,000 2 to 8 letter words.

The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary Third Edition is used by the computer program Scrabble Complete.

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