Official Tournament and Club Word List
Tournament and club play in the USA, Canada and Thailand.
| Short name | TWL, also written OTCWL or OWL |
|---|---|
| Edition we hold | not recorded |
| Edition published | never |
| Words in our database | 0 |
| Words claimed by the edition | not verified |
| Last checked against the source | never |
| Changes at that check | 0 |
We have not verified how many words the published edition claims, so the comparison above is incomplete. We would rather leave that blank than print a number we cannot point to a source for.
About this list
The tournament list for North America. Broader than the OSPD, which is aimed at home and school play, and narrower than Collins.
Why we publish these numbers
Most word finders show you a dictionary without telling you which edition it came from or when it was last updated. That makes their answer impossible to check: if your opponent challenges a word, you cannot tell whether the tool was working from a list that is still current.
The two numbers worth comparing are how many words the published edition claims and how many we actually hold. When both are known and they disagree, that gap is real information — about our data, not about yours. We would rather show it than hide it.
Check a word against this list
Look up any word in the dictionary and you get a separate yes or no for all four Scrabble lists at once. In the word finder you can switch individual lists off, so results only include words that count in the game you are playing.
More on how the lists relate to each other: which dictionary Scrabble uses.