I put our info on the word list below since we are not sure that people read the status on this. Sorry if you are receiving this again. You can remove your votes from this topic to not receive future updates.

The short answer is we try to closely match the Websters Scrabble valid word list since its been around the longest for Word Games. I put a couple of the definitions for recent words mentioned below. The link to their dictionary is also below.

HET
a Hebrew letter

SAKI [8 pts] , (SAKIS)
a Japanese liquor

We use a standard word list for validation called ENABLE2k. People and Chumbots use the exact same list..except some of the easier Chumbots can’t use parts of the list. It’s used by quite a few games and you can search on it if interested. However it only has words and not definitions. We look definitions up via a service called Wordnik.com which does not have nearly as many definitions. In an upcoming update we are going to research many of the most unusual words and create a list of their definitions we can use in game. Scrabble’s list is copyrighted so we cannot copy it. The link for their list is below in case you are curious.

If you would like to suggest words to add or delete just send us a support request.

Thanks for playing and spreading the word!

This is the link for Scrabble’s official list (They have access to an official Scrabble dictionary for definitions):
http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/en_US/search.cfm

We see that they have more definitions than Wordnik.com here: (but we can’t access it from within Word Chums)
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

We try to closely match the Merriam-Webster’s Scrabble dictionary (link to it is below).

The short answer is if you see a valid word played that is not found in the Websters Official Scrabble dictionary we will remove the word and we will give you 3,000 coins for finding it. You just need to verify it is not in the Scrabble list before sending it in.

This is the link for Scrabble’s official list (They have access to an official Merriam-Websters Scrabble dictionary for definitions):
http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/en_US/search.cfm

We started with a standard word list for validation called ENABLE2k that is often used for word games and word game tournaments. People and Chumbots use the exact same list..except some of the easier Chumbots can’t use parts of the list. It’s used by quite a few games and you can search google on it if interested. However it only has words and not definitions. We look definitions up via a service called Wordnik.com which does not have definitions for all the words on the Enable2k list. In an upcoming update we are going to research many of the most unusual words and create a list of their definitions we can use in game. Scrabble’s list is copyrighted so we cannot copy it directly. The link for their list is above in case you are curious.

If you would like to suggest words to add or delete just send us a support request.

Thanks for playing and spreading the word!