Collins Scrabble Words

Collins Scrabble Words (CSW, formerly SOWPODS) is the word list used in English-language tournament <a href="/facts/Scrabble/BxpF5qNv">Scrabble</a> in most countries except the US, Thailand and Canada, although Scrabble tournaments in the US and Canada are also organized with divisions that use Collins Scrabble Words as their lexicon, some under the auspices of organizations such as the Collins Coalition. The term SOWPODS is an <a href="/facts/Anagram/T8L7yImr">anagram</a> of the two abbreviations <a href="/facts/Official_Scrabble_Players_Dictionary/xz4MdE8K">OSPD</a> (Official Scrabble Players Dictionary) and <a href="/facts/Chambers_Dictionary/1CHW1uaL">OSW</a> (Official Scrabble Words), these being the original two official dictionaries used in various parts of the world at the time. Although the two source dictionaries have now changed their respective titles, the term SOWPODS is still used by tournament players to refer to the combination of the two sources. There has not been any actual hard-copy list produced called SOWPODS, although the current Collins Scrabble Words, or CSW, is in effect the full SOWPODS list by a different name.
Currently the two main sources for the words making up the combined list (generally known as Collins) are:

<ul><li>The <a href="/facts/British_English/ymJR5Rnd">British</a> words. Derived from two sources; the <a href="/facts/Collins_English_Dictionary/TAFUwDoz">Collins English Dictionary</a> and the Collins Corpus, and</li>
<li>The <a href="/facts/American_English/sdAfgPgM">American</a> words. From the <a href="/facts/NASPA_Word_List/wsQSuTJ3">NASPA Word List</a>, formerly Official Tournament and Club Word List, or TWL, derived from the <a href="/facts/Merriam-Webster%2527s_Dictionary/A7onwQtb">Merriam-Webster's Dictionary</a> and four other collegiate dictionaries. Latest version is NWL2023.</li></ul>

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Collins Scrabble Words