It’s obvious that a lot of names are also going to be valid words in Scrabble (Bob, Peter etc) and this made me wonder just how many there are…
Now, Scrabble has a ridiculously large dictionary, allowing all sorts of silly words that are frowned upon in our house 🙂 For example, there are apparently 124 playable two letter words (!) and, ridiculously, you can play Aargh, Aarrgh and even Aarrghh (!) Well, if you don’t believe me, you can check here.
I’m no authority, and there are several dictionaries including OSPD and SOWPODS, no doubt with differences between them. They are regularly revised to remove hate speech and, no doubt, so they can add some even more ridiculous words.
Anyway, I digress. After some tinkering around, I was able to intersect a list of names with a list of Scrabble words, to arrive at a total of… 1244 names. There’s a good chance yours will be in there 🙂