Scrabble adds shebagging, cisgender, kompromat and other new words to dictionary

Scrabble will allow a number of new words to be used in the popular word game, embracing a selection of terms from the modern vocabulary.

New words include 'blud', slang for friend, gender equality terms such as 'cisgender', 'agender' and 'misgender', and feminist expressions such as 'mansplaining' and 'manspreading'.

The Collins' Official Scrabble Words list provides a guide to what vocabulary is allowed in the game and will be adopted by serious players.

Here is a list of some new words in the 2019 list, including three new two-letter terms, which have been officially adopted:


Agender - of a person who does not identify with a gender (9 points)


Scrabble will allow a number of new words to be used in the game (Shared Content Unit)

The popular word game has embraced terms from gender and feminist terms (Getty Images)

Transgender woman born with half a body finds love - and has 'wonderful' sex life  

Antifa - anti-fascist organisation (9 points)


Antivaxxer - person opposed to vaccination (19 points)


Bae - sweetheart or lover (5 points)


Blud - friend (7 points)


Burquini - swimming costume covering the whole body apart from the face, hands and feet (19 points)


Cisgender - having an assigned birth gender and gender identity that are the same (13 points)


Ew - expression of disgust (5 points)

The Collins' Official Scrabble Words also includes slang and other political expressions, such as Antifa (Fairfax Media via Getty Images)

The list provides a guide for which words can be used in the game (SSPL via Getty Images)

Fatberg - large mass of fat in a sewer (13 points)


Fleek - as in 'on fleek', stylish (12 points)


Genderqueer - person with a non-traditional gender identity (22 points)


Hackerazzo - person who hacks a celebrity's personal computer (27 points)


Hench - fit and muscular (13 points)


Incel - involuntary celibate (7 points)

Scrabble rewards players for putting together long words (Getty Images)

The popular game was invented in 1938 (Surrey Advertiser)

Woman gets useless anatomy lesson off bloke foolishly 'mansplaining' about labia  

Kompromat - potentially damaging documents, photographs, etc, kept for blackmail (19 points)


Mansplaining - of a man explaining something to a woman in a condescending way (13 points)


Manspreading - when a male passenger spreads his legs into the seats beside him (18 points)


Misgender - refer to a person as the wrong gender (13 points)


Ok - okay (6 points)


Remainer - person who remains (10 points)


Qapik - monetary unit of Azerbaijan (20 points)


Shebagging - when a female passenger places her bag on the seat beside her (18 points)