From 'amirite' to 'zonkey,' new words join the Scrabble dictionary

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If you're planning on breaking out the family Scrabble board during the summer holidays , you might get some help from zoodle, jedi, babymoon and about 500 other words newly added to the official playing dictionary.

And if anyone gets hangry waiting for Christmas lunch, they can now play that word, too.

Merriam-Webster announced this week the release of the seventh edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, with more than 500 new options for players of the classic word-making game.

The new words reflect additions that have been made to the main Merriam-Webster dictionary since 2018, when the last Scrabble version was published.

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From social media buzzwords like subtweet and adorbs to food terms including queso and matcha, the additions also reflect today's culture, the evolution of language, and the fact that sometimes game-playing folx just want to embiggen their vocabulary, verb a noun, or subtweet their opponents - amirite?

And they mean excitement for word nerds, from holiday-gathering dabblers to top players.

"There's so many more opportunities to play a little differently because of these new words," said Robin Pollock Daniel, 60, an expert Scrabble player from Toronto who has at times been the highest-ranked female player in North America.

"It makes Scrabble one of the most exciting games that there are out there because it's dynamic and constantly changing."

All words that were new to Merriam-Webster's dictionary and fit the Scrabble rules