"The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary," out Aug. 11 from Merriam-Webster, will be adding 5,000 new words, freshening up the game for the first time in over a decade, according to The Associated Press.
Entries in the forthcoming book that include texter, vlog, bromance, hashtag, dubstep and selfie were mere twinkles on the racks of recreational players, the AP reported.
The new words add about 40 pages to the Scrabble-sanctioned dictionary, which already lists more than 100,000 playable words, according to the AP. Definitions are kept to a minimum but parts of speech and whether a plural is available are noted.
To be included in the 36-year-old book fifth-edition dictionary, a word must be found in a standard dictionary, can't require capitalization, can't have hyphens or apostrophes and can't be an abbreviation, in addition to being two to eight letters, reflecting the seven tiles players draw plus an eighth already on the board they can attach a long word to for bonus points, the AP reported.
Among the highest potential scorers among the new additions is "quinzhee," a shelter made by hollowing out a pile of snow, according to the AP.
Played on the board's top row, ending at the top right through an existing "u," and a player can score 401 points, including the 50-point "bingo" bonus for using all seven tiles, the AP reported.
Merriam-Webster didn't identify all 5,000 new words but released a list of about 30 that also include:
Beatbox, buzzkill, chillax, coqui, frenemy, funplex, jockdom, joypad, mixtape, mojito, ponzu, qigong, schmutz, sudoku and yuzu, according to the AP. Geocache was also added, voted into the dictionary by the public during a Facebook contest in May.
