Dictionaries

[watervole]

I think I'm going to have to get a new Scrabble dictionary.

I like to print my Scrabulous turns out on paper, so I can take them away and study them at leisure.  If I think of a good word, I check it in my Scrabble dictionary.

But there's a lot of different Scrabble word lists, and mine has a lot of differences from the one Scrabulous uses.

I'd found a wonderful position to add an 's' onto jerking and play a seven letter word from that.  Sadly although jerkings is allowed in my dictionary, it's not in TWL.  I'd say about a quarter of the words I check are valid in one, but not the other.  It's getting very frustrating.

Comments

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

Why are you using TWL, if you don't mind me asking?

[watervole.livejournal.com]

The only two options are TWL and SOWPODS. SOWPODS has such a massive set of words that I don't really feel confident enough to take it on (my word knowledge in Scrabble terms isn't spectacular). Nearly everyone I'm playing with seems to have TWL as their preferred word list.

I might try SOWPODS later on.