Sources, licenses and coverage

Words: ESDB / SCOWL

We use the en_US-large plain word list, release 2026.02.25, from the publisher’s pinned release. It includes common spelling variants. Only alphabetic words of 2–15 normalized letters are included; spaces, hyphens, apostrophes and numbers are excluded. Accents are folded into their base letters.

Complete copyright, permission notice and credits. Copyright 2000–2026 Kevin Atkinson. The publisher allows use, modification, redistribution and sale with the required notices. This is a general spelling list; it is not an official Scrabble or Wordfeud lexicon.

Definitions: English Wiktionary

Definitions are by English Wiktionary contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. We used the Kaikki / Wiktextract English extraction from the 2026-09-02 dump, extracted 2026-09-25 and downloaded 2026-09-29.

We select one useful sense and normalize formatting. Ordinary senses take precedence over archaic or offensive senses when available. Region and usage labels are retained. Inflected forms and spelling variants only inherit a meaning through an explicit source link. No definitions are generated to fill gaps. The short view uses at most fourteen words; the full selected text, source page, contributor history, license and source dump remain available in the details.

Coverage and word selection

94.3% of search entries have a definition before applying the proper-name filter. A missing definition does not prove a word is invalid. Proper-name filtering uses source labels and whether entries appear only with a capital initial; this can miss names or hide valid words. Show all suggestions makes the wider selection available.

Tile values

English Scrabble values follow the letter tiles in the Hasbro rules. Wordfeud values follow Wordfeud’s official English tile table. Blank tiles score zero. Totals include existing board letters and exclude premium squares, crossing words and all-tiles bonuses.

Scope of checks

WordFoxy checks only the letters, pattern and crossings you enter. It does not inspect an entire board or establish tournament legality. The highest tile value is not necessarily the highest full move score.