The Scrabble dictionary adds "OK" to "play" officially with hundreds of other new words

Scrabble players, it's time to rethink your game as 300 new words come to you, including long-awaited gems: OK and ew, to name a few.

Merriam-Webster has released the sixth edition of "The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary", four years after the last refresh. The company, at the request of Hasbro Inc., owner of Scrabble, gave up an opportunity to consider for a minute of well-being – RBI – after consulting with competitive players who found it potentially too controversial. There was a distant case to be made since RBI turned into a real word, pronounced rib-ee.

But it's OK because "OK"

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"Scrabble players have been waiting for it for a long time," said lexicographer Peter Sokolowski, editor-in-chief of Merriam-Webster. "Essentially, two- or three-letter words are the cornerstone of the game."

There is more good news in qapik, adding to an arsenal of 20 playable words starting with q that do not need a u. Scrabblers do not care about definitions, qapik is a monetary unit in Azerbaijan.

"Whenever there is a word with q and no, it's a big deal," Sokolowski said. "Most are obscure."

There are now good markers eligible for the game, including the bizjet, and magical vowel discharges, such as the arancini, those Italian balls of boiled rice. Bizjet, that is to say – yes, a small plane used for business, deserves 120 points on a first part, but only if it is plural with a s. This is due to the 50-point bonus for using the seven tiles and the double-word bonus space usually used at the beginning.

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Sokolowski said the dictionary company based in Springfield, Mass., Sought advice from the North American Scrabble Players Association to update the book, to ensure these words are desirable.

Sokolowski has a favorite among the new words but not primarily because of Scrabble scores. "It's macaroons," he said, referring to the delicate French sandwich biscuit that has different flavors and toppings.

"I just like what it means," he said.

Merriam-Webster published the first official dictionary of Scrabble in 1976. Previously, the rules of the game required the consultation of any dictionary office. Since the creation of an official dictionary, it has been updated every four or eight years, said Sokolowski.

There are other new entries that Sokolowski appreciates, from the point of view of a blacksmith.

"I think ew is interesting because it expresses something new about what we see in the language, that we are now incorporating more of what you might call a transcribed speech." Sounds like ew or mm-hmm Traditionally , they were not in the dictionary, but as most of our communications are text messages and social media writings, we find more transcribed speech and a new group of spelling for the dictionary, "he said. declared.

Like ew, there is another interjection in progress, yowza, with a word that some might have thought: zen.

There are often discussions around Scrabble boards on which foreign words have been accepted in English to the extent that they are playable. Say hello to schneid, another of the new kids, this one with German roots. It's a sporty term for a series of defeats. Other aliens were added because they no longer require mainly white language gloves, such as italics or quotation marks: bibimbap, cotija and sriracha.

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Scrabble was filed as such in 1948, having been imagined under a different name in 1933 by Alfred Mosher Butts, an unemployed architect in Poughkeepsie, New York. Interest in the game grew in the early 1950s, according to legend, when the president of Macy's arrived on vacation.

Now the official dictionary contains more than 100,000 words. Sokolowski also shared the other newcomers: aquafaba, beatdown, zomboid, twerk, sheeple, backback, bokeh, botnet, emoji, facepalm, frowny, hivemind, puggle and nubber.