{"id":255,"date":"2023-11-05T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/?p=255"},"modified":"2023-11-05T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T18:03:09","slug":"new-dictionaries-added-nwl-2020-owl-5-ospd-7-sswl-2020-csw-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/2023\/11\/05\/new-dictionaries-added-nwl-2020-owl-5-ospd-7-sswl-2020-csw-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"New dictionaries added: NWL 2020 (OWL 5), OSPD 7, SSWL 2020, CSW 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of years, the major Scrabble dictionaries have been updated.\u00a0 Sorry for the delay in supporting them &#8211; there has been a lot happening in the world, and I dropped the ball by missing the announcements about the updates!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve now added these options to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/\">Word Helper:<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>USA &#8220;2020 Tournament&#8221; &#8211; the official dictionary used in tournaments in the USA &#8211; NASPA Word List (NWL2020) \/ Official Word List (OWL5)<\/li>\n<li>USA &#8220;2020 Merriam-Webster&#8221; &#8211; designed for home use and censored to remove offensive words. It is sometimes called the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD7)<\/li>\n<li>USA &#8220;2020 Schools&#8221; &#8211; designed for school use and censored to remove offensive words &#8211; School Scrabble Word List (SSWL2020)<\/li>\n<li>International &#8220;2022 Tournament&#8221; &#8211; the official dictionary used outside the USA, as of 2022- Collins Scrabble Words (CSW\/CSTCWL\/SOWPODS 2022)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/content\/book_email\/cover.png\" alt=\"Scrabble Strategy book cover\" width=\"113\" height=\"181\" border=\"0\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/content\/book_email\/cover.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And of course, here&#8217;s the traditional plug for my Scrabble Strategy book. If you&#8217;d like to support the site, please consider buying a copy.\u00a0 It&#8217;s actually rather good, and makes a great gift \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/go\/paperback\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/go\/paperback\">Click here for the paperback version on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/go\/paperback\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/go\/paperback\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/content\/book_email\/amazon.png\" alt=\"Buy at Amazon\" width=\"127\" height=\"31\" border=\"0\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/content\/book_email\/amazon.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/go\/kindle\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/go\/kindle\">or click here for the Kindle version<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/go\/kindle\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/go\/kindle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/content\/book_email\/kindle.png\" alt=\"Download for Kindle\" width=\"126\" height=\"37\" border=\"0\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/content\/book_email\/kindle.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/go\/ibook\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/go\/ibook\">or click here for the Apple iBooks version<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/go\/ibook\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/go\/ibook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/content\/book_email\/ibooks.png\" alt=\"Download for iBooks\" width=\"123\" height=\"34\" border=\"0\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/content\/book_email\/ibooks.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Scrabbling everyone,<\/p>\n<p>Richard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of years, the major Scrabble dictionaries have been updated.\u00a0 Sorry for the delay in supporting them &#8211; there has been a lot happening in the world, and I dropped the ball by missing the announcements about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/2023\/11\/05\/new-dictionaries-added-nwl-2020-owl-5-ospd-7-sswl-2020-csw-2022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}