Letterlicious uses a word list to work out what words are valid. Since Letterlicious began we've used the American Scrabble word lists which are shorter than UK (+commonwealth countries).

• As of July 2025 I have updated the two, three and four letter words. There are a variety of "offical" lists to choose from. Sticking with the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) 7 (Merriam-Webster) 2020 seems to be the latest list.
  • For two letter words see this link Additions: EW, DA, GI, OK, PO, TE
  • For three letter words see this link: Additions: about 101 new words
  • For four letter words see this link
• Since 2011 we've used a word list provided by the Internet Scrabble Club. We have chosen the TWL list which contains around 161,000 words. We are not using the much larger SOWPODS, ODS or Zinga lists - which are exceptionally large.
  

We will review words submitted by players but I expect we've bypassed the necessity of this feature by using the new lists.

But no matter how diligent we try to be there will be some common words we have missed (plurals for example). The left hand form below allows you to check again if a word is present in our list, and the right hand form allow you to send us a new word. If we think the word is valid we will add it to our list. We will be approving new words after the` current puzzle has passed. You can check words between 3 and 12 characters, but only words between 5 to 12 characters long will be considered for additions.
Note: Proper names and normally capitalised words will not be accepted - as per Scrabble rules.
Updated 11-June-2025. On-the-fly checking as you type