3 May 2019
Accepted Scrabble words gets an update
Scrabble has accepted 2,862 new words. Youth culture slang phrases have been added in the first update since 2015. These include sharenting, blud and bae. Others such as incel, antivaxxer and fatberg have also made the Scrabble grade. The president of the New Zealand Association of Scrabble Players talks about what it takes for a word to be accepted.