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Lolz! Scrabble adds new words and they are ridic

Lori Grisham
USA TODAY Network
Scrabble added more than 6,500 words Thursday.

Getting rid of Z's in Scrabble just got a lot easier (lolz). The classic board game added more than 6,500 new words to its dictionary Thursday.

The additions are "influenced by all parts of life including social media, slang, technology and food, plus English from around the world," publishing house Collins said in a statement on its website.

The new words include popular slang like "ridic" (short for ridiculous), "bezzy" (short for best friends) and "lolz." Collins defines lolz as "laughs at someone else's or one's own expense" and is worth 13 points.

The dictionary, called Collins Official Scrabble Words, now has more than 276,000 permissible words players can use in a game.

Here are a few other new words:

Emoji: Digital icon used in electronic communication (14 points)

Tunage: music (8 points)

Blech: Interjection expressing disgust (12 points)

Checkbox: Small clickable box on a computer screen (28 points)

Wahh: Interjection used to express wailing (10 points)

Cakehole: Mouth (17 points)

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