( ap photo richard drew ) ( associated press ) new york ( ap ) — scrabble players , time to rethink your game because 300 new words are coming your way , including some long - awaited gems : ok and ew , to name a few .
merriam webster released the sixth edition .
the springfield , massachusetts - based dictionary company sought counsel from the north american scrabble players association when updating the book , sokolowski said , " to make sure that they agree these words are desirable . "
there was a remote case to be made since rbi has morphed into an actual word , pronounced rib - ee .
that way , as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web , a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved .
but that 's ok because , " ok . "
it is among more than 300 additions in the latest edition .... ( associated press ) the word yowza appears in the new edition of merriam webster 's " official scrabble players dictionary , " in new york , thursday , sept. 20 , 2018 .
then the internet archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken , or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page 's authors .
every time there 's due to the 50 - point bonus for using all seven tiles and the double word bonus space usually played at the start .