• 2-letter word list with meanings (Adapted from the list available at John Holgate's Scrabble® website)
• 2-letter word list with hooks (link to a webpage at John Holgate's Scrabble® website)
• 2 to 3 letter word list (All corrections up to January, 2000)

  2 and 3 letter words which do not take an 's' ending

  For strategic reasons it is very important to learn whether a word takes an 's' ending or not.

  2 to 4 letter words which have a 'sticky' s

  Sticky 's' words are words which are no good without an 's' ending.

  Definitive list of fish

  Making a thematic list is a great way to learn a lot of interesting new words. This particular list started off as an OSPD list of fish. I am in the process of adding the SOWPODS fish but the list continues to grow!

  Weird words

  Words can be considered weird for a variety of reasons. Here is a small selection. Make your own personalized lists as you go along.

  • Words where 'q' is not followed by a 'u'
  • Words ending with 'y' having unusual plurals
  • Vowelless words
  • Words with only vowels
  • Repeat offenders
  • Stutterers
  • Palindromes

  A few of the allowable Indian Words

  The English language has borrowed a large number of words from Indian languages. This is a list which is being added to continuously and presently contains words borrowed from Malayalam and Tamil, two South Indian languages.