Scrabble adds nearly 2,000 words to its dictionary, including “nibling,” “yeet,” and “imma.” How many do YOU ​​know?

Scrabble has added nearly 2,000 new words to its dictionary, including modern slang like “sitch” and “noobie.”

Officials have updated the popular board game to be more in line with the current language used today.

In its first major update in four years, the Scrabble dictionary will now allow words like “Nibling,” which refers to your sister or brother’s child, and “doncha,” a shortened term for “don’t?”

Now the word “yeet” also counts, which can be used as a verb to mean to throw something with force or as an interjection to express excitement or enthusiasm.

Scrabble players will now also be able to score points with ‘sitch’, which is short for situation, and ‘noobie’, or newbie.

Words like ‘Imma’, meaning ‘I’m going to’, ‘tomoz’, meaning ‘tomorrow’, and ‘coulda’, meaning ‘I could have’, are now included.

But it’s not just abbreviated words that appear in the latest edition of Official Scrabble Words, published by Collins.

Foods like bancham, small Korean dishes, and birria, which refers to a Mexican meat stew, can now earn players points.

Terms that became popular on social media, such as “grammable,” something worthy of being shared on Instagram, have also arrived.

‘Floof’, a very hairy animal, is also one of the adjectives added. to the existing 279,073 words.

The latest edition of the dictionary, which has been publishedEndorsed by manufacturers Mattel and WESPA (World English-Speaking Scrabble Players Association), it will be used in tournaments and clubs from January 1, 2025.

Collins Dictionaries editor-in-chief Mary O’Neill told the Sun:’From three-letter gems like “ack” and int to high-scoring ones like “qameez” and “zonke”, both tournament and casual players can now add plenty of new words to their arsenal of potential game winners.’

Scrabble has been around for nearly 91 years and more than 150 million sets have been bought and sold in 29 languages ​​around the world.

American architect Alfred Mosher Butts came up with the idea for the game in 1933, as the country was going through the Great Depression and massive job losses.

The game is currently played by members of the Royal Family, including King Charles and Queen Camilla, former US President Barack Obama, Jennifer Aniston and Oprah.

This comes after the much-loved board game was changed for the first time in its 75-year history as part of a new “inclusivity” campaign to discourage those who find the word game too “intimidating” from abandoning it.

Scrabble will now be printed with a simpler version on the back of the original board for those whose knowledge of dictionaries and thesauri is limited.

The new game from owners Mattel is called Scrabble Together and will feature a second side “to make the game more accessible to anyone who finds word games intimidating.”

The decision to unveil a new version came after research by Scrabble found that 75 percent of people aged 25 to 34 had to look up whether certain words were real while playing the game.

Nearly half of Scrabble players have also tried making up words, according to a survey of 2,000 adults.

In an increasingly digital world, research has shown the importance of switching off: more than half say board games help them relax.

The new game has been designed for children aged eight and above, as it is intended to be a family game that can be shorter than the original.

Scrabble Together is said to be designed with “inclusion and collaboration in mind” and will allow players to work as a team to complete “goal cards.” Different difficulty levels are included as options and a simpler scoring system will be used.

This means that participants will not compete to get the highest score by placing their chips in strategically located positions.

Instead, the winner can be the first to complete 20 challenges with “objectives,” such as “play a three-letter word” or “play a word that touches the edge of the board.”

They can also use ‘help cards’ with hints, although a player loses if they use all their help cards without achieving a goal.