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06 May 2008
Not quite what I expected
3 of 3 found this helpful 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.