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Hasbro and Merriam-Webster have added more than 500 new words to the official Scrabble dictionary, which consists of all of the game's playable words.

As our language evolves, so does Scrabble: Now, you can use hundreds of new words, from “ambigram” to “zedonk,” to spell your way to victory in the beloved board game. Hasbro and Merriam-Webster have added more than 500 new words to the official Scrabble dictionary, which consists of all of the game’s playable words. It now includes words that weren’t commonly used when the game was first created in the 1930s, like “adorbs,” “dox” or “zoodle.

The latest crop of Scrabble-approved words, though, have been expanded to include proper nouns like Google and Boricua . Players can even use “Jedi” to score some points. Some of the new words simply didn’t exist up until a few years ago, “deepfake” and “subtweet” among them. Newer slang has made its way into Scrabble, too, including “vax” and “guac.

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