The second [[OTCWL2014|third edition ]] of the '''Official Tournament and Club Word List''' ('''OTCWL2OTCWL2014''', also known as '''OWL2OWL2014''', '''TWL2014''' or in older documents '''TWL2OWL3''') will be available for sale at the[[2014 National SCRABBLE Championship]] andtakes effect on December 1, 2014. See the [[OTCWL2014]] page for more details about that book. The second edition of the word list (OTCWL2, a/k/a OWL2, TWL2)
is the official word list for [[NASPA]]-sanctioned [[club]] and [[tournament]]
play, and contains words of up to nine letters and their inflections.
(Longer words are listed in [[Long List]].)The OTCWL2 is edited by the [[Dictionary Committee]]
(whose wiki page goes into the lexicon’s history
in greater detail), published by and exclusively available to NASPA [[membership|members]] from
[[Merriam-Webster]].
To order your own copy of the paperback word list, please have your NASPA
membership ID and name handy and call Merriam-Webster Customer Service at
1-800-828-1880.
The next edition, [[OTCWL3]], will be published
in tandem with [[OSPD5]] in 2014 and available at the
[[2014 National SCRABBLE Championship]]. It will take effect on December 1st, 2014.
The tournament word list is not available to the public in electronic form;
it can be purchased was available in print from NSA Word GearMerriam-Webster.
The electronic word list is available to authorized [[SCRABBLE]] developers. If you are not sure if you have the correct version of the digital file, here are some statistics you can check. There are currently 101 2-letter words, 1015 3, 4030 4, 8938 5, 15788 6, 24029 7, 29766 8, 29150 9, 22326 10, 16165 11, 11417 12, 7750 13, 5059 14 and 3157 15, for a total of 178,691 words. (13 of those words are not playable using the standard 100 tiles: CLASSLESSNESSES, KNICKKNACK(S), PIZZAZZ(ES), PIZZAZZY, POSSESSEDNESSES, RAZZAMATAZZ(ES), RAZZMATAZZ(ES), SENSELESSNESSES, STRESSLESSNESS.) The master file lists all words in lower case in alphabetical order, one per line, with each line terminated by a Unix line break. It is 1763167 bytes long and has BSD checksum ('cksum -o 1') 12722, System V checkum ('cksum -o 2') 24638, 32-bit CRC ('cksum -o 3') 2022312244, ISO/IEC 8802-3:1989 checksum ('cksum') 427611949 and MD5 checksum dfd408f47cc1a324eb0ab5577910e4e3.