Happy hygge! Scrabble dictionary adds hundreds of words

NEW YORK (AP) — Here’s the sitch, Scrabble stans. Your convos around the board are about to get more interesting with about 500 new words and variations added to the game’s official dictionary. Among them are stan, meaning a fan, sitch, short for situation and convo, for conversation. There’s also zedonk, dox and fauxhawk. The seventh edition of “The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary” was released this month (Nov. 2022). Among other new words are deadname, pageview and embiggen. Grawlix is one among the highest scorers. Don’t know what grawlix is? It’s that mashup of symbols on a keyboard that replace curse words in print.