Scrabble data

[romainfrancois]

Copying this here so i din’t forget about it:

seeing your anagram package on twitter reminded me to send you a link to the CSW15 text. This is the official word list of international scrabble. It has a bunch of copyright issues associated with it, so not sure if you can use in the package. One link for it is here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170408053242/http://www.scrabble.org.nz/CSW15.txt

I presume they took it down off their website because of copyright issues.

Nevertheless - this is probably the most complete English word source. It is essentially an amalgamation of several dictionaries and is what we learn (painfully) for tournament scrabble play.

[jonocarroll]

FYI, the ScrabbleScore package (cc: @willkurt) is largely out of date (uses TWL06, package last updated 2013-10-09) but has some useful functions which might have a home here, e.g. checking a word against the table (is.twl06.word()), scoring cleverly:

only.possible | Default=TRUE Only consider scores that are possible based on the distribution of scrabble letters. For example "zzz" would score 30 if it weren't for the fact that there is only 1 'z' necessitating the use of 2 blanks, for a real score of 10.

I used ScrabbleScore in this silly analysis.

[romainfrancois]

Thanks. I’ll have a look.