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Seems odd to review this. It's a list of words, not a few of them almost never to be seen elsewhere in the English language. The book settles the arguments, but if you are accustomed to playing the game with a REAL dictionary, brace yourself. Did you know there are 96 two-letter words in English? I can promise you that your sophomore English teacher would adamantly disagree, and she'd be backed up by the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language (16 volumes). No matter. You need to be playing with the same set of words as everyone else and this is the final arbiter. Woefully short on definitions and pronunciations. Long on every off the wall way you can turn a verb into a noun.
This is the book devout Scrabble players simply CANNOT survive without. Although there are words in the English language that are not included in this book----still there has to be rules and this book settles the dispute-----not in there----can't play it----period. Yet I am perplexed as to why the fabric Qiana did not make it into this edition. (not many words we can use a "Q" without the letter "U".)----will be eagerly awaiting the nexr edition, untill then, this one will do quite nicely.
My family and I enjoy playing Scrabble, and we had one small dictionary that we were using as our definitive source for our word choices. Since it seemed to lack some common words in use, I decided to search for a Scrabble dictionary, and hit on the official Scrabble dictionary! Oh, short lived joy! It appears to me, and my family agrees, that the official dictionary has more word choices in it than is permissible under the rules of the original game. It also lists words that are eight letters in length or less. So if someone spelled, "all" and you had enough letters to put down "igator", you wouldn’t find "alligator" in the dictionary. Seems rather odd, but you do find "oy", "ow" and a host of other one and two letters words. So now my rule is when in doubt, put down two letters. Someone may, or may not challenge the word, but odds are that it will be found in the dictionary.Read full review
A MUST HAVE!!!!!! Have 8 grandchildren and Scrabble was a game on the top of the list for board games when we visited or celebrated family vacations together. This dictionary purchase was a long time in coming... Very satisfied and have already put it to good use.. I`m sure a more updated version will be just around the corner and I will have to shop again..Great book, loved that it has the definition of the words. Great tool for children and adults as well.
The dictionary has many different words and spellings in it, so it puts a whole new slant on playing Scrabble. However, when I purchased my Scrabble Dictionary I presumed that we no longer needed the regular dictionary......was I wrong......it doesn't replace the regular dictionary by any stretch of the imagination. It is a handy reference that has expanded our vocabulary for Scrabble, and even though it gives many more ways for a word to be written, it still has to be used in conjunction with the regular dictionary.
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