Meet the New Words Added to the Official Scrabble Dictionary

Others are slang words that will have some word nerds cringing, like “embiggen”, “verbed”, “bae”, “thingies”, “adorbs”, “swole”, and “folx”.

Alongside slang words and new words, there are also some older ones that have just entered the dictionary, like “yeehaw” and “dumpster” — previously a trademarked word.

There’s a whole cornucopia of food words that have been entered, too, including dishes from around the world. Some include “guac”, “horchata”, “queso”, “zaatar”, and “matcha”.

Some fun new additions are words about words like “grawlix”, a series of symbols like @#$%&! used to represent swearing, and “eggcorn”, which is a word or phrase created by mishearing the correct term.

A couple other notable new Scrabble words are “fauxhawk” (which will score you quite a few points), “jedi”, “zoomer”, and “zonkey” (a cross between a donkey and zebra).

Check out even more new Scrabble words at Huffpost.

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