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School Scrabble incredible game

I’ve just watched this nail-biting match from the North American School Scrabble Championship. It’s well worth 10 minutes of your time! 

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New dictionaries added: NWL 2020 (OWL 5), OSPD 7, SSWL 2020, CSW 2022

Over the last couple of years, the major Scrabble dictionaries have been updated.  Sorry for the delay in supporting them – there has been a lot happening in the world, and I dropped the ball by missing the announcements about … Continue reading

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Dictionary added: Collins Scrabble Words 2019

Back in May, the 2019 edition of Collins Scrabble Words (CSW2019) was released, with International tournaments adopting it from July 2019. So I’ve now added it as an option for Word Helper. Just choose “Scrabble International” -> “2019 Tournament” in … Continue reading

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Dictionary update – six new dictionaries!

Recently there have been quite a few changes to the dictionaries used in Scrabble and Words With Friends: Words With Friends have merged their US English and UK English dictionaries into a single dictionary For US Scrabble tournaments, the 2018 … Continue reading

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Site maintenance: Wed 18 May – Thu 19 May 2016

I’ve just been notified by the company that hosts my webserver that they need to turn it off for about 10 minutes to replace the power supply that it is plugged into. They will be doing this overnight between Wed … Continue reading

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New Scrabble dictionaries

In the last year the Scrabble people have been very busy updating their dictionaries around the world! In North America… Last year (2014) there was a new Scrabble word list published by Merriam-Webster: the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary 5th edition … Continue reading

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Cookies!

Anyone visiting the site recently from a country in the European Union may have noticed one of those annoying ‘this site uses cookies’ bars at the bottom of the screen. These are popping up everywhere as a result of an … Continue reading

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Good news for mobile phone users!

I’ve just done another major update of the Word Helper site.  For most of you, you may not see much difference.  But it you access Word Helper from a mobile phone, hopefully you should find it much, much easier to … Continue reading

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Announcing the Crossword Solver

After many years of running this site for Scrabble, Words with Friends, and other similar word games, I decided it was time to spread the net wider. Today I’ve created a new section The Crossword Solver.  As the name suggests, … Continue reading

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New Words With Friends dictionary

I’m grateful to Lisa (one of the users of my Word Finder iPhone app) for pointing out that Words With Friends have recently updated their dictionary. So I’ve just tweaked the word list for Word Helper to accommodate the changes. … Continue reading

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