up to Mike Wolfberg's SCRABBLE Wordlists Page
Although you can see some word lists here, you can make your own lists of SCRABBLE® words using Mike's WHAT program, which is available at no cost. Mike has yet to provide downloads of files to support NWL2023.
Included on this web site are some lists of words of particular aid to folks learning useful words for competitive play in North America and other places using the same lexicon, such as Israel. All these words are to be found in the NASPA Word List 2023 or "NWL2023" (available in the future only to club/tourney members at the NASPA web site). When This book will be the only reference for words played which are of lengths between 2 and 15.
The Dictionary Committee of NASPA, in conjunction with Merriam-Webster, updated both the Official SCRABBLE® Players Dictionary (OSPD) and the Official Word List (NASPA NWL2023). The OSPD7 is now being sold to the public, and the most recently updated OWL, currently OWL3, is available to members of NASPA. There is separate small file with changes made for the NWL2018. Once the supply of OWL3 books is exhausted, there will likely be an NWL2023 book published by NASPA. Competitive play in clubs and tournaments switched to using NWL2023 lists in February, 2024.
There will soon be a very good one-page two-sided "Cheat Sheet" for getting started with SCRABBLE® NWL2023 word knowledge is available at: http://www.cross-tables.com/cs.php.
Also see Archived old/dormant Scrabble® FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) by Steven Alexander - a comprehensive source.
Here are the NWL2023 word lists found at this site:
More lists will be included here, as time permits. Let me know if there are lists you would like to see.
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