Dictionaries

Bambara

The dictionary below is based on the Bambara-French dictionary by Charles Bailleul. The letter distribution has been calculated using the Corpus bambara (FR).

• Bamanakan v1 (202268 words)

Catalan

The DISC (Diccionari Informatitzat de l'Scrabble en Català) is an alternative dictionary to the official Catalan dictionary (DOSC).
For more details, see the dedicated site (in Catalan).

• DISC 2.4.10 (581980 words)

Czech

• eliot-dic-cs.dawg (723403 words)

The word list of this dictionary has been obtained from the following sources:

• Unofficial list
• List of words from 2 to 5 letters

Note: the letters follow the distribution indicated on this page. Thus the few words containing a W or a Z must necessarily be played using the jokers.

English

The dictionaries below contain official word lists used for playing Scrabble in English:

• CSW 2012 (270163 words)
• TWL 06 (178691 words)

French

• eliot-dic-fr.dawg (313969 words)

The word list of this dictionary contains additions and omissions, compared to the Officiel Du Scrabble (ODS 6) word list, which contains 386264 words). It has been obtained by a combination of the following sources:

• Français-Gutemberg list
• Moby list for French
• List of words between 2 and 4 letters

Note: for legal reasons, the word list of the Officiel Du Scrabble (ODS) is not provided anymore on this site. It is however possible to find other word lists on the Internet (including the ODS one...), and to use them to build your own dictionary.

Italian

The dictionary below contains the official word list for playing Scrabble in Italian. Enclitic forms are also accepted in live games, but there is at the moment no list containing them all.

• Zingarelli 2011 (664005 words)

Note: words containing the letters J, K, W, X or Y can only be played using the jokers.

Malagasy

You can play in Malagasy with the below dictionary:

• RAK (336595 words)

Norwegian

The dictionary below is based on the official word list, available here:

• NSF (593526 words)

Polish

The dictionnaire below is based on the SJP (Słownik Języka Polskiego), available here:

• SJP (2702658 words)

Romanian

The dictionary below is based on the official word list, available here:

• LOC 5 (610767 words)

Serbian

There is no official word list for playing Scrabble in Serbian. Here is an unofficial dictionary:

• Serbian (342464 words)

Spanish

The dictionary below is based on the word list provided by the Federación Internacional de Scrabble en Español (FISE), available here:

• LEX-FISE (636599 words)

Create your own dictionary

Since Eliot 1.12, a wizard allows creating very easily your own dictionary from any list of words. The wizard is available in the Settings menu: Create a new dictionary.... Then you just need to follow the instructions...

Note: languages using double letters for a single tile (like the spanish LL or the catalan QU) must use the old method indicated below..

For those who prefer to use a command-line tool, another (more complex) method consists in using the compdic program, provided with Eliot (and pre-compiled for Windows).

Here is the procedure to follow:

• Save the word list to a file (for example words.txt), using UTF-8 encoding
• Create a letters definition file (for example letters.txt), also encoded in UTF-8. Each line of the file corresponds to a letter, and contains the following fields (separated with one or more spaces):
  • Letter (for the joker, use the interrogation mark)
  • Number of points
  • Frequency (number of occurrences)
  • 1 if the letter is a vowel, 0 otherwise
  • 1 if the letter is a consonant, 0 otherwise
  An example of letters file, suitable for French Scrabble, is available here
• Run the compdic program, using the following command-line:
  compdic -d "Nom du dictionnaire" -i words.txt -l letters.txt -o my-dic.dawg
  This will generate a file called my-dic.dawg, usable with Eliot.