Merriam-Webster released the sixth edition of The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary today, four years after the last freshening up. The company, at the behest of Scrabble owner Hasbro ...

In American English, grammar experts prefer "toward" over "towards," along with "backward," "forward" and "afterward," though ...

Merriam-Webster recently announced its latest slate of additions to the dictionary—some 200 new words and definitions that, as usual, are an eclectic blend of ones you probably assumed already ...

New words are periodically added to the official Scrabble dictionary, made by Merriam-Webster. In 2022, the most recent update introduced more than 500 words, including “subtweet,” “adorbs ...

While most players know there are 100 tiles and that the person who picks the letter closest to A goes first, there are a few facts that even super-fans will be surprised to learn.

US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has acquired a hit Wordle-style game. The original Wordle, created by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle, challenges players to find a five-letter word in ...

You'd only know all those words if, like many Scrabble champions, you'd spent months poring over the dictionary ... too. From Merriam-Webster: Plural of gynoecium, or "the aggregate of carpels ...

Launched in the Fifties, the allure of a brilliantly-placed word has lured gamers in for decades – but the official Scrabble dictionary ... editor at large at Merriam-Webster.

Collins Dictionary declared "brat" — the album title that became ... Collin's 2023 word of the year was "AI," short for artificial intelligence. Merriam-Webster typically announces its word of the ...

The runner-ups were good but not good enough, as the word associated with pop singer Charli XCX and Kamala Harris is named ...

Launched in the Fifties, the allure of a brilliantly-placed word has lured gamers in for decades – but the official Scrabble dictionary has long been a source of contention for many modern-day fans.

One of the oldest, longest and most influential works in the history of Old English will soon be experienced through the eyes of one of the world’s most beloved fantasy authors. Science Mar 14 ...