You can't play "min," but you can play NIM. This is less an exception than a mental trick: learn the words that closely resemble the abbreviation of your dreams. Make sure you have a dictionary that's up to date, though OK only got added in 2018. It spread largely through US military slang and, more importantly to our purposes, it's 100 percent legal in Scrabble. Indeed, some linguists believe the humble affirmative OK to be the world's most popular word, occurring in a dozen spoken languages. So is radio terminology like MAYDAY and WILCO, as well as general military slang like AWOL.įinally, the world's most popular abbreviation has its origin in this scrappy Officialese. KILO and KBAR (short for kilobar, a measurement of pressure) are both playable. That carries over to other abbreviations as well. Scientific and Military AcronymsĬlose readers may have noticed that many of Scrabble's playable acronyms have a scientific or military origin. LASER and MASER (it's like a laser, but microwaves are emitted rather than light), SCUBA and SONAR, LIDAR, RADAR, and even the potty-mouthed SNAFU are all perfectly playable. The trick is to find the acronyms everyone forgets aren't words. It's not absolute, and most acronyms aren't valid plays: you can't just slap down YOLO or NASA without a potential challenge and loss of your turn.
In theory, acronyms are abbreviations and are therefore unplayable.
One of the biggest exceptions to the "no abbreviations" rule in Scrabble has to do with acronyms.
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