Collins Official Scrabble Words: The official, comprehensive wordlist for Scrabble™

Excellent to have an updated version of OSW which has been in the family for over 20 years -well laid out and challenging with separate alphabetical listing for longer words takes scrabble game in our house to another level

Very good.

It is great but I feel that it was not necessary to have half the book dedicated to long words of 9 letters and more. I would rather have had a section with lists of 2 and 3 letter words for greater speed of use.

So many words! Great to have when playing scrabble. This is a word list so there are no definitions. You will build your scrabble skills but not your usable vocab.

This lead to terrible arguments. We normally use the two-volume shorter Oxford English Dictionary as our trusted source for spelling and meaning. When we play scrabble we usually ask what a word means if another player uses something deeply arcane. This book is just a list with no definitions, so it is irritating to be told by another player that "I don't know what it means but it is allowed by the Collins guide". This is particularly annoying for two-letter words which are meaningless to the user and other players but apparently 'allowed'. (Pa, xu and aa, are allowed but seem to be in breach of rule 8) Far from being the 'bible' for this excellent game it has turned out to be a major irritant. 'Ostmark' is allowed but is clearly a foreign word in breach of rule 8. ' Basskap' seems unlikely as does 'whios'. ' Outfigure ' is ugly, but allowed, apparently. Back to the OED for us. Scrabble should be won by those with good word skills, not by the player who has memorised the most two letter words from this text. Using this book a person with no grasp of English could win the game without knowing the meaning of any English words. That seems unsatisfactory to me.

What can you say, easy to use. Good value and saves falling out with opponents. Great for playing online games

A useful book to check on words permitted when playing the game of Scrabble. Ease to use, nothing not to like.

Bought as a gift and recipient loves it!

Ibdispensable pour jouer au scrabble en anglais mais c'est dommage qu'il n'y ai aucune définitions, seulement la liste des mots autorisés. Pour des joueurs francophones cela oblige à vérifier certains mots sur ordi, pour apprendre et progresser dans la langue de Shakespeare.

Excellent

In our home we call this "the good book".

Most importantly, this book offers what cannot be obtained for the North American version of Scrabble: Mainly a complete and accurate list of all words allowable in Scrabble play, accessible to anyone at any level of play. In contrast, the North American lists, compiled and published by NASPA (North American Scrabble Players Association) and Merriam-Webster are incomplete, inaccurate, and not accessible to everyone. The "Official Tournament and Club Word List 2014 Edition" (OWL) has over 80 errors, including over 40 omissions and over 40 erroneous entries, and is available only to members of NASPA. The "Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 5th edition" (OSPD) includes words up to length 8 plus inflections, but more importantly, does not include many words even of length 8 and shorter that are in the OWL. For example, of 66 new 3-letter OWL words from the previous edition, 8 are missing in the OSPD. So unlike previous editions, the OWL and OSPD are not closely aligned. And despite the OSPD claiming to be endorsed by NASPA for recreational and school use, the OSPD is NOT the word source used for scholastic tournaments. Rather they use yet another list which is similar to OWL, but with some objectionable words removed. And this official scholastic list is not available in print. Getting back to "Collins Official Scrabble Words", this is a list which is 100% accurate, and available to anyone. The words are conveniently listed in columns in two main book sections: Words of length 2-9, most frequently used in Scrabble play, and words of length 10-15, which mostly occur infrequently by playing extensions of 8- or 9-letter words. The book construction is very solid with nice paper, and the words are printed in a monospaced font, which is convenient for quickly identifying each word's length. (Contrast with the OWL, which has seemingly recycled paper pages, and using a variable-width font with words of all lengths in a single list, which makes word length determination problematic.) Scrabble, like other games such as chess, is the best when everyone is playing by the same set of rules. In the case of a word game, like Scrabble, the set of words is effectively the rules of the game. Collins Official Scrabble Words is exactly what it promises on the cover: "The official, comprehensive wordlist for SCRABBLE(TM)". (p.s. WORDLIST* is not a valid word in the book, only on the cover.)

As a Scrabble maven and pseudo, self-proclaimed "expert", I highly recommend this book. This massive book will easily surpass the tiny Scrabble dictionary that entry level players rely on. If you want to step up your game, this is the book for you.