Words beginning with E in the English International (SOWPODS) Dictionary - Page 1 of 206 1 A 3 B 3 C 2 D 1 E 4 F 2 G 4 H 1 I 8 J 5 K 1 L 3 M 1 N 1 O 3 P 10 Q 1 R 1 S 1 T 1 U 4 V 4 W 8 X 4 Y 10 Z We have found 10285 words beginning with E.
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- An old synonym for SOWPODS. Redwood The Redwood Word List? An Australian edition of SOWPODS98? Published by? SOED Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, used in British play until it was superseded in 1980 by the current edition of TCD. SOWLOW Another name for SOWPODS. SOWPODS A cover term for SOWPODS96 or SOWPODS98.
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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. OWL14, work began on OTCWL2014 soon after the establishment of NASPA in 2009, with NASPA and Merriam-Webster negotiating the scope of the changes involved, including the new word references to be used. Then lexicographers from both organizations started working in parallel, with the MW team searching for suitable words that had been added to the MW database since the last edition, and the NASPA Dictionary Committee (DC) looking for new words in the Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition, and the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd edition. There have been some 232 words added to OTCWL2018 (Official Tournament and Club Word List). As of March 1st 2021 NASPA (North American Scrabble Players Association) will be using them in tournaments and at their clubs. The Pixie Pit will also be using these new words in OWL14. In early 2014, the DC finished its work, which also became the basis for the Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary's 5th edition, used in school and recreational play. OTCWL2014 is the third in the OTCWL series, and its working title was OWL3. The name was changed however, due to two concerns. One was that with the inclusion of longer words of 10–15 letters, the nature of the book had fundamentally changed; the other was that the name of the first two volumes had been prefaced by the name of our predecessor organization, the NSA, and that our new book therefore technically had a different name. ChangesThis edition sees new words from three sources:
It includes for the first time words of up to 15 letters, which were formally only available separately in the Long List It includes almost 9,000 words that will be newly acceptable in competitive play. The more widely publicized figure of 5,000 new words refers to those that are being added to the shorter OSPD5. 51% of the new words are coincidentally found in the international CSW2012 lexicon; the rest are not. 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. CSW2021 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. CSW19 Star defender 6 game free full version. , is the transition from the 2015 version of the Collins Scrabble Tournament & Club Word List (hereinafter referred to as CSW15) to the 2019 version (hereinafter referred to as CSW19) involves 2862 new words in total, of which 1258 of length 2 to 9 letters, with 617 of length 2 to 8 letters. There are 29 deletions of existing words, of which 6 are of length 2 to 8 letters. From May the 7th 2019 we will be using CSW, CSW15, and CSW19 (Collins Tournament and Club Word Lists). 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. We had hoped to add OSPD5 once we could obtain the official respective word lists when sanctioned by NAPSA on the Internet, probably never as Hasbro will not allow that to happen ! 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. 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 use 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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The SOWPODS lexicon, more commonly now referred to as Collins or Collins Scrabble Words (CSW), is a word list first published in 2007 by Collins, and updated in 2012, 2015, and 2019. NASPA has sanctioned official games played in the CSW lexicon in a separate CSW rating system since January 2010. The 2012 edition was in effect until August 31, 2015; the 2015 edition took effect on September 1, 2015; the 2019 edition took effect on July 1, 2019.
English-language Scrabble as a whole is played to two lexica, depending on country. This map shows countries [1] according to the lexicon(s) they use. Currently, 48 countries use CSW (green), and 3 use predominantly the Official Tournament and Club Word List 2016 edition (OTCWL16, the North American lexicon), with some CSW play. These countries, shown in blue, are Canada, Thailand, and the United States.
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Statistics
- The 2015 edition of CSW has 276,663 words from 2-15 letters, up from 270,163 words in the 2012 edition, an increase of 6500 words
- The 2015 edition includes all of the words that are acceptable in the current North American OTCWL16 word list, with the exception of 59 2-8 letter words, and 1844 9-15 letter words
- In 2014, 8% of all games played were CSW-rated, the remainder being played in the OTCWL lexicon
Coinage
The name “SOWPODS” was coined as an anagram of OSW+OSPD, the names of the two lexicons (the British Official Scrabble Words and the American Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary) that were originally merged to form SOWPODS. The SOWPODS word list is currently edited by the WESPA Dictionary Committee; comments concerning the list should be directed to the NASPA International Committee. The CSW word list contains almost all of the words found in OTCWL16, as well as a large number of other English words from around the world.
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The purpose of these webpages is to provide informative and, hopefully, interesting information to those North American tournament and club players who are curious about trying out the CSW game. They do not, therefore, aim to introduce Scrabble play as a whole, but those parts of it that change if one moves from playing OTCWL to playing CSW. Thus, we start with how the game differs from OTCWL, introduce the most useful extra words to know, address some commonly asked questions and concerns, then describe the current CSW scene as it is evolving in North America. Finally, we present links to further resources outside of this wiki.
The sections below follow on from each other in order, but each can be read on its own.
Please direct comments about this page to its author, Nick Ball.
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[1] List of CSW countries derived from players with an active international rating at http://www.wespa.org/aardvark/cgi-bin/rating.cgi . We are happy to add any countries omitted by this method.
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