Words With Friends Adds Pop Culture-Inspired Social Dictionary

The dictionary contains more than 50,000 new words

Zynga launched a new Social Dictionary in Words With Friends, adding more than 50,000 new words to the multiplayer word game. The Social Dictionary contains words inspired by players and pop culture, and it includes many fan-requested words.

For instance, gamers can now play fan-requested words including delish, queso and wordie. Several high-scoring words have also been added, including abbozzo, bajada and oxazolone.

Here’s a selection of the pop-culture-inspired words contained in the Social Dictionary:

  • Bae
  • Bestie
  • BFF
  • Fitspo
  • FOMO
  • Hangry
  • Kween
  • Smize
  • TFW
  • Turnt
  • Werk
  • Yas

In a press release, Bernard Kim, president of publishing at Zynga, commented:

In addition to being the place where millions of people connect with friends and family, over the past eight years, Words With Friends has proven to be a leading authority on words that start conversations across generations and geographies. In

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