Dictionaries

A dictionary for Eliot is a compiled .dawg file built from a word list. The sections below describe the word lists used by the available 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

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

Czech

• czech-unofficial-v1.dawg

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 blanks.

English

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

• CSW 2012
• TWL 2006

French

• french-unofficial-v1

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-Gutenberg 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

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

Malagasy

You can play in Malagasy with the following dictionary:

• RAK

Norwegian

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

• NSF

Polish

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

• SJP

Romanian

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

• LOC 5

Serbian

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

• Serbian

Spanish

The dictionary below uses the official 2017 word list of the Federación Internacional de Léxico en Español (FILE):

• FILE 2017

Create your own dictionary

Since Eliot 1.12, a wizard makes it easy to create 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 precompiled 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 blank, use a question 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.