Words, Words, Words

There are many ways to learn words needed to play at a higher level of Scrabble®. One way to do this is to study word lists. Some lists, such as the two- and three-letter lists are absolutely essential to an improved game. How much you study is up you but whether it is just 15 minutes a day or an hour a day you are guaranteed an improved game. Listed below are a number of useful lists that you might want to print out over time in order to study them.

Each of these lists is in Adobe PDF format. If you don't have a copy of Acrobat Reader on your computer here is a link to Adobe's download site.

Another way to improve your vocabulary is to become a regular visitor to jumbletime.com. Here you may play games that let you find all the words in a given set of letters from four-letters to eight-letters in length. This site provides a timed and fun way to measure your word knowledge.

Check back here often for updates. Currently, the following lists are available:

• Two-letter list with definitions.
• All the three-letter words.
• The uncommon three-letter words.
• Categorized three-letter words.
• Q words that don't need a U.
• Words with lots of vowels.
• Four-letter words using J,Q,X or Z.
• Uncommon four-letter words.
• Using two-letter words to make four-letter words.
• Another approach to four-letter words is to separate them into high-probability hooks, low-probability hooks and non-hooks.
• The top five six-letter bingo stems.
• The second top-five six-letter bingo stems.
• Courtesy of Mike Wolfberg's Scrabble® Page, the most likely new seven-letter words in OWL2 and the same list with definitions.
• Five-letter words which begin or end with a high-scoring letter, also known as the high-fives list.
• Five-letter words using J,Q,X or Z.
• More informative than useful in games are the words not found in the OSPD4 but are found in OWL2 and are acceptable for club or tournament play.