{"id":862,"date":"2023-12-05T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/?p=862"},"modified":"2023-12-05T18:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T18:48:06","slug":"names-in-scrabble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/12\/05\/names-in-scrabble\/","title":{"rendered":"Names in Scrabble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;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&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/names_in_scrabble.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/names_in_scrabble-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/names_in_scrabble-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/names_in_scrabble-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/names_in_scrabble-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/names_in_scrabble.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Scrabble has a ridiculously large dictionary, allowing all sorts of silly words that are frowned upon in our house \ud83d\ude42 For example, there are apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/scrabble.collinsdictionary.com\/word-lists\/two-letter-words-in-scrabble\/\">124 playable two letter words<\/a> (!) and, ridiculously, you can play Aargh, Aarrgh and even Aarrghh (!) Well, if you don&#8217;t believe me, you can check <a href=\"https:\/\/scrabble.collinsdictionary.com\/check\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m no authority, and there are several dictionaries including <a href=\"https:\/\/scrabbleplayers.org\/w\/Official_SCRABBLE_Players_Dictionary\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/scrabbleplayers.org\/w\/Official_SCRABBLE_Players_Dictionary\">OSPD <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Collins_Scrabble_Words\">SOWPODS<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8230; 1244 names. There&#8217;s a good chance yours will be in there \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-58967dd9-5214-4474-a62c-9f5638be011f\" href=\"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/names_in_scrabble.txt\">names_in_scrabble<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/names_in_scrabble.txt\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-58967dd9-5214-4474-a62c-9f5638be011f\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;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&#8230; Now, Scrabble has a ridiculously large dictionary, allowing all sorts of silly words that are frowned upon in our house \ud83d\ude42 For example, there are apparently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/12\/05\/names-in-scrabble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Names in Scrabble<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}