Scrabble's CRAZIEST Definitions

[@javierrodrigo1009]

Shakespeare was so legendary that he could simply misspell a word and now there's a new word which literally means "Shakespeare misspelled this word".

[@thatoneguy9309]

He also just straight-up made up a ton of words, it helps that the English language and spelling wasn't so concrete back then.

[@vytah]

​@@thatoneguy9309he didn't invent that many words, otherwise people wouldn't understand his plays, would they. He was simply often first to write them down - and even then not as many as some claim, as in many cases the word was already written before Shakespeare, is just 19th century dictionary writers didn't bother digging too deeply.

[@Firefly256]

@@thatoneguy9309Spenser too

[@PelumiOTE2B]

😂😂

[@psymar]

​@@vytahSometimes a word can be entirely understood without having heard the word before, simply by being intuitive enough a combination of existing words

[@AlexDings]

My favourite is: TAGHAIRM (Gaelic) inspiration sought by lying in a bullock's hide behind a waterfall [n -S]

[@wanderer15]

Damn, how didn't I know this one?!

[@jellomochas]

CONCUR - to concur [v CONCURRED, CONCURRING, CONCURS]

[@tindahouse9051]

ah yes

[@badasson8825]

I concur with this definition

[@SysFan808]

i concur

[@myonkys4579]

I also concur

[@javen9693]

Me when I concur

[@NotMegaBlaster]

Shakespeare: Misspells a word Dictionaries: Nah thats valid

[@41cata]

Dictionaries: Now it's more valid than the real word

[@alexpotts6520]

I loved (adored (loved (adored (loved (adored))))) this video.

[@blerghhhhhh]

nice

[@alfonzog6327]

The Scrabble dictionary seems to talk/communicate/scream in a very similar fashion to The Board/Director from Control

[@EvanBerofsky]

back in the days when we used the franklin electronic dictionary (yes, i'm old), the definition on it that provided the most hilarity and confusion was for BLIGHTY ((n) "a wound causing one to be sent home to england") as i was amused by its specificity while questioning whether all soldiers were just sent to england even if it wasn't their homeland

[@puneetsharma431]

Yes this is an interesting word origin that I read a while ago; it comes from Vilayati which is an Urdu / Hindi word for foreign…so going home would be going “Vilayati”.

[@BambinaSaldana]

*gets wounded* YOU'RE GOING TO *_ENGLAND_*

[@AndrewKay]

"Blighty" more normally refers to England or Britain itself. Apparently as a military slang term "Blighty wound" or "Blighty one" means a minor wound which one would easily survive, but would be enough to get sent home to Blighty. And apparently the word "Blighty" can also be used as a shorthand for that.

[@wanderer15]

Oh man that is an amazing one!

[@JorWat25]

I thought I'd compare to how Collins' Scrabble website defines these words. SPICA: spiral bandage formed by a series of overlapping figure-of-eight turns ABROOKE: bear or tolerate PAIOCKE: obsolete word for PEACOCK PRENZIE: Shakespearian word supposed by some to mean 'princely' BEHOLDEN: indebted or obliged GALABIEH: same as DJELLABA (kind of loose cloak with a hood, worn by men esp in North Africa and the Middle East) GAPPING: the act of taking a gap year CHUMPING: collecting wood for bonfires on Guy Fawkes Day SWINGISM: former resistance to use of agricultural machines MONTEM: former money-raising practice at Eton school Seems to be a bit more sensible with its definitions.

[@JorWat25]

Also, in response to "Please do not ask which GALABIEH variants are in which dictionary. You will quickly go insane.", all of them are in CSW, while only DJELLABA, DJELLABAH, GALABIA, GALABIEH, GALABIYA, GALABIYAH, and JELLABA in NWL. Most of the Collins definitions lead to DJELLABA, but the three that start with J instead lead to JELLABA, defined as 'loose robe with a hood'. EDIT: Looking at the forms of DJELLABA which are allowed, it's odd that for every version that starts 'GALLA', there's an equivalent that starts 'GALA', with the exception of GALLABIYEH. GALABIYEH is not valid in any Scrabble dictionary.

[@comface]

Well we did invent the language

[@jellomochas]

@@JorWat25 GALABEYA was added to NWL this year. It is not in CSW.

[@JorWat25]

​@@jellomochas Ah, that complicates things.

[@thrillshow]

I would love to see you create a video similar to this called, "Scrabble words that will ruin family game night." Sure, it's legal to play WYSIWYG, but grandma will probably remove you from her will if you try it.

[@psymar]

I once ended a game against mom and grandma with VAV. in my defense I had two Vs on my rack and nothing else

[@thrillshow]

@@psymar I don't think I've ever played vav, but that's a really good way to get rid of two V tiles at once.

[@lylecohen1638]

Nearly all two letter words, to start

[@perguto]

I'm glad that Shakespeare's dead, because if he was alive he could simply beat everyone by misspelling and making up words on the fly that immediately become legal

[@Gastogh]

Shakespeare: "I play HIARNETS." Opponent: "...Yes."

[@oisin7748]

personal favourite: DOSEH#: (Arabic) a religious ceremony at Cairo (abolished 1884), during the festival of the Prophet's birth, when the Sheikh of the Sadi dervishes rode on horseback over the prostrate bodies of his followers [n -S]

[@matthewoconnor3362]

This is generally how will is greeted at a scrabble tournament

[@kevinli6790]

I love the (abolished 1884) and the very specific prostrate bodies

[@EebstertheGreat]

The only references to this purported ceremony online relate to a single 1855 drawing by French artist Alexandre Bida or a later 1861 woodcut by "several artists" in the _Illustrated London News._ I think Bida might have just made it up, cause I can't for the life of me find any information about this that didn't come from his own caption. Curiously, many sources spell it "Dosseh," including Bida himself, but maybe this is interpreted as the French spelling or something. It's not in the Collins word list. There are some later artistic works supposed to represent the Dosseh or Doseh ceremony, e.g. a watercolor by Frederick George in 1885, but these are apparently based on older pieces of art, not firsthand experience. Importantly, the watercolor shows the Doseh as a ceremony where a _person_ treads on the followers, not a horse. Perhaps this is the reason it was said to be banned in 1884. After a bit more searching, some English authors did also mention the Doseh in the late 19th century, claiming it was associated with the Saadiyah dervishes, whoever they were. There is a book by John Murray mentioning them and a part of a book by Walter Morrison claims a Mr. Lane reported that it had been banned. In Morrison's version, the dervishes first trampled on the people lying prostrate, then the horse (but only once, not twice). IDK, it seems like a tall tale to me, but I'd love it if someone else found better evidence. But regardless of whether it really happened, it's definitely a word.

[@aquaisnotades]

Ahl al bid’ah be like

[@zachpekarsky6905]

I enjoy TEG ( a yearling sheep) and TEGG (a two-year-old sheep)

[@Handygamer]

still waiting for TEGGG to be added :(

[@LegoGuy2048]

@@Handygamer what about TEGGGG? or TEGGGGG? or TEGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG?

[@schazz3929]

I have to say, the funniest thing by far is the fact that this man just asked : "Hey y'all what's your favorite word in the dictionary ?" and people actually answered. Truly one of the nerdiest places on the internet, love it X)

[@johnwilder4789]

- DERRY: a meaningless word used in the chorus of old songs [n DERRIES] - SCULCH: clean trash [n SCULCHES] - SELAH (S): A word of unknown meaning often marking the end of a verse in the Psalms [n SELAHS]

[@FrizFrizzle]

I like the definition of "TWO" being "one more than one".

[@oisin7748]

meanwhile (in CSW, at least), the definition for FIVE is just "a number"

[@pomelo9518]

According to math class the following brackets is called 2: |{{},{{}}}|.

[@MichaelDarrow-tr1mn]

@@pomelo9518 actually just {{},{{}}} is 2. |{{},{{}}}| is also 2 though

[@gregkendall6460]

I'll never forgive you for not releasing this video on a Whit Tuesday, then dropping a subsequent update every third Whit Tuesday

[@wanderer15]

Huge missed opportunity

[@JboyAAA]

Really missed a golden opportunity to read out GALLABIEH to the tune of Rock Me, Amadeus.

[@glowstonelovepad9294]

All spellings of "gallabiah": First consonant: DJ, G, J First vowel: A, E Second consonant: L, LL AB End: nothing, A, AH, EA, EAH, EYA, EYAH, IA, IAH, IEH, IYA, IYAH, IYE, IYEH Total: 3 * 2 * 2 * 1 * 14 = 168 (from "djalab" to "jellabiyeh")

[@windowsmoke]

My favourite is still looking at the definition of vassal, clicking on feudal, then clicking on feudalism and getting a super long definition, including the word vassal. In fact, to complicate things even further: the word "liege" is a contronym which means it has two possible definitions. It can be defined as both a feudal lord, or a vassal which are considered opposites

[@weltschmersch]

You can tell my humor is broken because I cracked at the glitchy definition of beholden. 😂

[@wanderer15]

That makes two of us!

[@JorWat25]

One I came across on the Collins website is PALEONTOLOGISTS, defined as 'see PALEONTOLOGIST'. PALEONTOLOGIST is then defined as 'same as PALAEONTOLOGIST'. PALAEONTOLOGIST is itself defined as 'see PALAEONTOLOGY'. And finally, PALAEONTOLOGY is defined as 'the study of fossils'. One rather long one (though nowhere near the lengths you found) is FIRESTORM: "uncontrollable blaze sustained by violent winds that are drawn into the column of rising hot air over the burning area: often the result of heavy bombing". And on the opposite side, we've got NOPE, defined as "no".

[@JorWat25]

I've since managed to find all the definitions in CSW, and I can tell you that the longest single definition is for COELOSTAT at 267 characters: "astronomical instrument consisting of a plane mirror mounted parallel to the earth's axis and rotated about this axis once every two days so that light from a celestial body, esp the sun, is reflected onto a second mirror, which reflects the beam into a telescope [n]". And if you allow for entries with multiple definitions, the winner is RANKSHIFT at 303 characters: "phenomenon in which a unit at one rank in the grammar has the function of a unit at a lower rank, as for example in the phrase the house on the corner, where the words on the corner shift down from the rank of group to the rank of word [n] / shift or be shifted from (one linguistic rank to another) [v]"

[@joshuasims5421]

Montem comes from ‘ad montem’, Latin for ‘to the hill’, describing the practice. The alternation of G and J in Galabieh is due to this being an Egyptian garment; J in standard Arabic corresponds to G in Egyptian Arabic. The other numerous spelling variations I presume to be mostly inconsistent transliteration.

[@InvagPrune]

When i saw Gallabieh i was so confused but as soon as he said Djellabah it made sense

[@matthewoconnor3362]

Another fun rabbit hole to go down is that some of the GALABIEH spellings only mention some of the alternate spellings in the definition. JELAB only mentions 12 of the 20 alternative spellings. This nonsense is taken even further with the alternate spellings of GREECE. There’s 11 total spellings therefore 10 alternate spellings for each word; yet every single spelling of GREECE mentions 8 out of the 10 alternates

[@Cloiss_]

we need a graph, stat!

[@among-us-in-tetris]

legend has it that the BEHOLDEN - INDEBTED series still continues to this day...

[@Takyodor2]

To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion

[@andrewbuck171]

BEHOLDEN

[@hypenheimer]

INDEBTED

[@p.c.w.6986]

BEHOLDEN

[@among-us-in-tetris]

@@Takyodor2 recursion (repetition (recursion (repetition (recursion))))

[@splunge2222]

One of my favorites is definition for "REI" - "An erroneous English form for a former Portugese coin." It is funny (to me - I'm not a numismatist) that there are enough mentions of former Portugese coins that we have an erroneous English word for one.

[@JboyAAA]

Oh. there are so many Japanese loanwords that are valid, I assumed this was just another imported Japanese word (bow). Interesting that it’s a completely different rei.

[@DadgeCity]

This reminds me that QURSH is valid even though it's a misspelling of QIRSH (an old Arabic coin), which isn't valid.

[@eliasmochan]

sounds to me like they heard the plural of "real" being "reais" and they assumed the singular was "reai" but then lost the a. But I'm probably wrong.

[@davidstone9981]

@@DadgeCity Nice! I didn't know about QURSH being a misspelling (and funnier yet that QIRSH isn't valid).

[@davidstone9981]

I was going to mention this one, too. And what's so dumb about this (and a few others, like QURSH mentioned below) is that the Scrabble dictionary committee vetoed its removal citing that it was confusing to have to unlearn words... and then made everyone unlearn hundreds of "offensive" words that didn't offend anyone, like OFAY.

[@matthewoconnor3362]

POSTPOSITIVE is one of the few “troll definitions” from csw12 that remained after SKINCARE SOUTPIEL ULTRAHIP etc got cleaned up in csw15

[@Manigo1743]

I find it odd how scrabble players' minds sometimes work. I recently watched a video where someone played a word which was incorrect. Afterwards he said that he had mistaken it for another word, which had the same letters in it, but was completely different. It was not like misspelling with an "a" instead of an "e". It was using the correct letters, but playing them in a completely wrong order. Like he was thinking in anagrams. He knew the letters, but just not the order they should come in. That seems very baffling to me.

[@amconners]

it's fairly common for scrabble players to study words by alphagram, so thinking in anagrams is probably not too far off as an explanation

[@cheezekurl]

Couple more favorites: IOTACISM excessive use of the letter iota [n IOTACISMS]), TREHALA a sweet, edible substance forming the pupal case of certain weevils [n TREHALAS]

[@notwithouttext]

i know "iotacism" as the process in greek that changed Η, Υ, ΕΙ, ΟΙ, and ΥΙ to all sound like Ι [i]

[@wanderer15]

IOTACISM is a classic, but I don't remember that TREHALA one at all, crazy!

[@joegaspard9762]

I do like the narrow specificity of HAWEATER (a resident of Manitoulin island, Ontario) and the archaicness of MURAGE (a tax levied for repairing the walls of a town).

[@DadgeCity]

Like Pequiste, Waac, Jafa and Ronz(er), Haweater is a proper noun and shouldn't be valid.

[@notwithouttext]

@@DadgeCity it's not a proper noun, it's a compound word haw + eater

[@DadgeCity]

@@notwithouttext it's both

[@notwithouttext]

@@DadgeCity so if it's both it should be allowed, just like "jack" and "paris" and "china"

[@DadgeCity]

@@notwithouttext Paris (plant) should possibly be invalid, but jack (target ball, lifting device, etc) and china (pottery) aren't proper nouns.

[@manaphylv100]

MOMENTO is another misspelling (of MEMENTO) that somehow got added as a valid word.

[@cukka99]

I kind of like EARLY, defined as "an early potato." On the one hand, the definition does serve a purpose (it makes it easy to remember the plural EARLIES is good). On the other hand, if you didn't already know what "early" means...

[@qlf9_]

Seems as though then “an an early potato potato” would also be a valid definition of EARLY, as would “an an an early potato potato potato,” “an an an an early potato potato potato potato,” etc…

[@animeguy2356]

Well, the definition of “an early potato” is a noun, so you wouldn’t really be able to interchange it for the adjective meaning of “early” like that.

[@galoomba5559]

There's tons of definitions like this, because the dictionary lists the word with the most inflections, which is often an obscure word coming from a common word of a different part of speech

[@ieatomnivores]

@@qlf9_ “an early early potato” makes sense. “An early potato potato” does not.

[@D3PR3C4T0R]

EARLY - adj. - of or relating to an earl

[@ZeoR95]

I don't think senior scholar of Eton has much to do with academic performance. I think it's going to be a lot closer to what most schools in the UK would call Head Boy (or Head Girl, or sometimes School Captain), to which the closest US equivalent is probably School Council President. This was probably initially about a specific person who was off to Cambridge, and then from that the tradition began.

[@bueger]

Yeah, the history of etons connection with kings college Cambridge is actually that it was founded specifically in order to have students from eton come to Cambridge University. It wasn't the same way now where they apply and there's a competitive process and any one person could not get in, it would've been decided beforehand that they would just be able to go

[@MinhAIPet]

1:01 HIARNETS: an erroneous spelling of Richards' "hairnets" (s. HIARNET)

[@JTiger1046]

this video is hilarious! and as a brit, i'm oddly proud that your top 3 are all intrinsically linked to the uk, on top of the mysterious shakespeare words 🤣

[@qwertyman506]

I would love a part 2, this was wild

[@hakurou4620]

This video reminded me of my personal all time favourite; FEAMYNG [n.]; the collective noun for ferrets ("a feamyng of ferrets"). If you've never heard this, it's because the actual term is "busyness of ferrets". Just that over centuries of dictionaries copying words from each other and mis-spellings or just hard-to-read handwriting, the word over time went from from BUSYNESS to BESYNESS to FESYNES to FESNYNG to FEAMYNG. Unfortunately, FEAMYNG is not in any scrabble dictionary i have access to. Unfortunate, because it happens to be seven letters.

[@asdfasdf4924]

My favorite is BEJASUS, which was added in a recent OSPD update, which was added only because we needed yet another (8th) alternate spelling of BEJESUS

[@michaelb4415]

I'm not sure why I enjoy these videos so much, considering I've only ever played 2 scrabble games - but I do

[@PelumiOTE2B]

I absolutely loved GALLABIEH and the multiple spellings

[@iSocket_]

Your beholden example reminds me of a similar experience I had looking up the word "proficient" in a concise dictionary, which listed the definition as "adept". Naturally, I went to look up "adept" and the definition given there was "proficient"

[@elLooto]

Clearly neither word can be used to describe the collator of said dictionary.

[@glenm99]

Not a mainstream dictionary, but I like that Uncyclopedia's article for "recursion" redirects to its article for "recursion."

[@humbertocruz6214]

I bingoed five times in my last game to win the top prize and celebrated with dinner at my favorite steakhouse. Actually I just made that up including two invalid Scrabble words, bingoed and steakhouse. Which leads to my suggestion of a video discussing words that are not valid despite being in common usage

[@Ghodyst]

As an arabic speaker, none of those are still how I would spell Galabieh (Jalabiyah)

[@thatliquidthing1903]

My favorite has always been IOTACISM, defined as "excessive use of the letter iota," and even though that refers to a shift in pronunciation in Modern Greek, I'll never get over my initial shock of thinking it was some mental condition where these deranged freaks wouldn't say any Greek words without iota.

[@Weather.report.the.rainbow]

Imagine going back in time telling Shakespeare a new slang word for a play then going to the present to the scrabble game with your friend so you can always have a bingo every new rack you get.

[@corenswet]

At 4:33 you said Captain Swing’s SUPPORTERS were the rickburners. Unless this was sarcasm, wouldn’t it be his detractors that were setting fire to the haystacks? The arsonists were the same people that were rioting over better pay and pre-machine days, so wouldn’t they detest Captain Swing? Not support him? Note: Also I love how history coalesces into the future and can prognosticate the future too. Just like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the idea of Captain Swing ties perfectly with the surge of AI just like you mentioned!! Great video!!

[@mikechappell5849]

Captain Swing was the fictional figurehead of the rioters, so Will was correct

[@matthewoconnor3362]

DOSEH - an approximation of what scrabble players do when will enters the tournament room

[@Afrotrili]

I feel like montem is similar to a french tradition called père cent. A hundred ("cent" in french) days before the baccalaureate, high school students go in the streets of their cities, usually in small groups, wearing costumes or lab coats, and ask passersby for money. If they receive nothing or close to nothing, then they throw flour at them, sometimes even eggs.

[@AmaranthRBY]

I honestly think the dictionaries need a purge of all the random Shakespeare misspellings but the ones you picked are at least pretty funny, and so was the rest of the list. Great content

[@asheep7797]

Whatever Shakespeare writes is a word. He said the word Przybylski as a gibberish word? Name a star after it (incorrect etymology) He failed to write Kakorrhaphi? Name a phobia after it (incorrect etymology) He wrote Honorificabilitudinitatibus for no reason? Make it a word! (correct etymology!)

[@alexpotts6520]

I'm assuming that elite Scrabble players would take umbrage at such a move, for "devaluing word knowledge" or somesuch. In fact I'd assume that this is a major reason this hasn't happened yet.

[@DaddyOho]

​@@alexpotts6520 At that stage just let any sequence of letters count and remove the memorisation burden hahaha

[@DadgeCity]

@@alexpotts6520 Unfortunately the top thousand Scrabble players (who want to keep the non-words in the wordlist) are spoiling the game for the billion other players.

[@alexpotts6520]

@@DadgeCity I wouldn't go that far. How many people, among the millions who own/play Scrabble casually, actually refer to the official wordlist anyway? A small minority.

[@glowstonelovepad9294]

"Prenzie" is the anti-pretzel since it has the same structure but doesn't have any hooks.

[@eviltreechop]

was just in Greenland and saw many ulu! but there they call it an ulo :)

[@javen9693]

There should be a tournament scrabble variant where you pick a random book as the 'dictionary' and give everyone one day to study it

[@mikechappell5849]

Nigel would still win

[@TimwiTerby]

If it was hard to pick 10, it means you have enough material for another video like this!

[@megapussi]

I've actually heard of the swing riots but I still had no idea what you were talking about at first with Captain Swing lmao

[@gplnd]

Will reading "galabieh" on stream is my new ringtone.

[@domino14]

I lost a game recently because I bingoed with GALABEAH and it was CSW only

[@wanderer15]

Oof

[@psymar]

ZAIRE: a former monetary unit of Zaire

[@onzie9]

FARTLEK because I'm perpetually 12 years old. I also liked the controversy over TUP and if it was offensive. It's the ram, not the farmer.

[@danielzitnik4247]

Fun list! Chumping is also slang in Magic the Gathering for blocking with a creature that will die for no benefit to you (other than preserving your life total). Also, montem is ridiculous. How about a top 10 list for words that shouldn't be valid, like montem?

[@AOOA926]

Any chance you can make a video on: highest scoring words, highest scoring plays, longest plays (non bingos), weirdest words (CWM, PHT, CH, ZYZZYVA, etc.), phonies, lowest scoring bingos, highest possible scoring words for each amount of letters in the word, and more?

[@psymar]

gotta shoutout the highest scoring single tile play: 99 points with a single S (turning mothered into smothered, making another long word plural, and hitting the bottom left triple word score)

[@ravi12346]

@psymar You can score more: for example, dropping a Z on the bottom center TWS to make (CRYPTO)Z(OOLOGY) horizontally and (QUART)Z vertically would be 171.

[@AOOA926]

@@ravi12346 maybe Quixote and muzjik

[@Pvzzz]

This is one of my favorite scrabble videos ever. It's so funny and well narrated!

[@JoelDavey]

The lexicographer responsible for this entry seemed to have ‘a touch of the Shakespeares’: FOOFARAW frills and flashy finery; much ado about nothing [n -S]

[@psymar]

As an American with Northern Irish ancestry who also celebrates Guy Fawkes day but for perhaps the opposite reason from the English, I found Chumping hilarious

[@minamagdy4126]

Interesting that the dictionary doesn't include my preferred spelling of "galabeya". That shows how i-centric Arabic transliteration is (something I vehemently oppose. e's and y's are underrated in my opinion, especially adjoined to denote the long sound of the letter yeh). Also, it's interesting that the provided definition specifically includes a hood. Where I'm from in Egypt, any single long-sleeved garment that can cover most of the body neck down is a galabeya (except Christian ritualistic tunics, I guess). It being borrowed from Egyptian Arabic specifically (my guess, for which I have little proof) is likely why g-based spellings are more numerous than j-based spellings (lower Egyptians notably greatly prefer g sounds over j sounds).

[@JDHinten]

I see the word ICEKHANA come up in a game. I look up the definition and find it is a MOTORKHANA that takes place on ice. I now need to know what a MOTORKHANA is. I discover it is a GYMKHANA with motor vehicles instead of horses. I now find myself looking up GYMKHANA...

[@Footie_Clips_47]

He is the best scrabble video maker

[@qqw743]

Agreed, but even Will might point out that the competition is not that heavy

[@ryanpatricksmith5795]

It's a shame Scrabble doesn't seem to recognize PANEITY, which MW's Unabridged defines as "the quality or state of being bread"

[@wanderer15]

It does in the Collins list and it's a great suggestion!

[@dentonyoung4314]

I haven't actually checked the Collins dictionary to see if COCKWOMBLE is in it, but if so, that would be my favorite definition. It's a Scottish noun meaning "a person, usually male, prone to making outrageously stupid statements and/or engaging in inappropriate behavior while generally having a very high opinion of their own wisdom and importance."

[@JorWat25]

It's not there, sorry.

[@jordanclark219]

Another video where we are just going to ignore JISM. Okay.

[@glowstonelovepad9294]

Why is there no "djelab" or "galabiyeh"?

[@afwasborstel112]

Hey Will, have you ever thought on making a video playing the word finding game squardle? It uses the official North American Scrabble Players word list (NWL2023) and has rankings for whoever can clear it the fastest and whoever can find the most bonus (obscure) words. I think it would be very interesting to see how well scrable knowledge and skill translates into playing this game, and make for a fun video idea! :D Anyway love your video's, continue what you're doing ✌

[@wanderer15]

I've played Squardle a bunch of times and it's very cool! If ever I find more time to stream, I could see making a habit of playing all the daily -rdles.

[@svanbackkokkonen]

Paneity#- state of being bread Gardyloo - jordeloo# warning cry when slops are thrown from a window, lol

[@wanderer15]

Very good suggestions here

[@Rightsideup23]

Fun fact: The bird is actually a "murre". This confused me at first when I saw it in the video, because I was like, "Where's the e??" Apparently, according to Google, "murr" is an obsolete term for a cold. Who knew? I suppose it might also be an alternate spelling of murre, though I've never heard that before.

[@tex6924]

Never ask a furry what murr means

[@onehumannow]

enjoyed this...5 are good in WOW and NWL23

[@matthewoconnor3362]

RUNCIBLE

[@dawt2098]

Imagine how intresting would it be to do a game of scrabble where you can only play words that are invalid/don't exist

[@ThomasHallidayPalaeo]

Yes, a senior scholar of an institution is the person who achieves the best marks in an exam. Whether that's the old university entrance exam or some internal or national exam in this case I don't know. At Cambridge, the terminology for the senior scholar in maths is even odder - they are the Senior Wrangler.

November 5th and I immediately thought of, "Remember remember the Fifth of November..."

[@wigbert9417]

A free oxymoron only a few seconds in..."or just plain bizarre".

[@bowlofwhiskey]

I forgot what I was just doing because will anderson video is more important

[@Kalosianfire]

Guy faux and burghshire is truly something

[@Etheridge2]

In OSPD 4 or 5 I believe the definition for the word Agedly was (in an oldly manner) but Oldly wasn’t an acceptable word. Can’t remember if that was it or not but it was something like that

[@Liormatalon]

This video was fantastic! I was actually laughing out loud at some of the jokes :D

[@quarrellousquaker]

No mention of the (Collins only?) euouae (and its diminutive, euoi) or mridang or quaquaversal?

[@tengetsu0618]

moral of the story: are the people that allow words into the various dictionaries really that much smarter than us?

[@Zoogleas]

Amazingly, the definition of MONTEM was just brought to my attention by my buddy about 2 weeks ago. The Zyzzyva definition was plucked word for word from Webster's Revised Unabridged 1913 dictionary, which is somewhat curious as Collins dictionary has a differently worded definition: _education, British_ _a former money-raising practice for the benefit of the senior college at Eton school, whereby pupils dressed up in fancy dress and walked to a hill near Slough and asked for donations from anyone they saw on the way there_ Some classic OSPD3 definitions: AGEDLY: oldly (not a valid word) JACKDAW: a crowlike bird. CROWLIKE# has yet to make its way into the NA lexicon. I feel like there were some other definitions I was aware of that were funky back in the day, but can't remember them at the moment. If anyone remembers any more, drop them here in a reply!

[@Marcotonio]

As I learned Japanese, I'd often bump into some incredibly specific words that made me question my sanity when browsing a dictionary. I was further astonished when the English definition had the term translated with an equally obscure, succinct and specific word. On a mostly unrelated note, I was recently thinking about the verb "*69". That can be used as in "I *69ed him". A word that sadly won't ever be in Scrabble, but which is (or was) common knowledge to many English speakers, more important than Montem or chumping in the present day.

[@freebeerishere]

It always comes back to the old Etonians

[@glowstonelovepad9294]

1:05 Wait, there's another erroneous spelling other than "rei"?

[@willwalker5951]

Remember remember the fifth of November. (Guy fox) He was kind of like Robinhood

[@qqw743]

OK now define "chuegy" successfully, and by successfully I mean, "to the satisfaction of a 14 year old."

[@marxbielefeldt8862]

Will thinks arson is better than Rickrolling confirmed

[@jwpogue]

Fantastic video!

[@Takyodor2]

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[@Iridescence93]

While it's true no one has to to memorize all the defintions of the hundreds of thousands of words I do think Scrabble is made cooler by the fact that it's a game about actual language and not meaningless letter strings. It'll probably be easier for me to remember thatr PRENZIE or ABROOKE are playable if I associate them with their ridiculous but interesting definitions so looking into what things mean can actually help you in the game besides just being often interesting.

[@whitelfner4582]

Great... Now I've got to look up "Whit Tuesday"

[@flicky1991]

The Strictly Come Dancing people would give you a different meaning for GAPPING

[@Einveldi]

I thoroughly enjoyed that. Not least for the effigies of Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg and for the random mention of the A4, which is way more in my wheelhouse than yours.

[@gazeboist4535]

I can't believe "dord" didn't make the list.

[@thegodofpez]

Man I love random Scrabble stuff. ✌️

[@FoxGuyGames]

erroneous in that sense means "not used anymore", its old english is all, basically a different language