Are you looking to play a word in Words With Friends but are unsure whether it will be accepted by the game? Now you can try out WordRaiders’s Words With Friends Dictionary to quickly see if it is valid or not before playing your turn!
Words With Friends and Scrabble look almost identical. Same tiles, similar board, same basic goal. So it’s a reasonable assumption that a word legal in one is legal in the other. That assumption is wrong and it causes arguments every day.
Type any word into the checker above for an instant verdict against the official WWF dictionary. Valid or invalid, no guesswork.
Why WWF Has Its Own Dictionary
Words With Friends uses the ENABLE (Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon) word list.
It’s similar to Scrabble’s dictionaries but notably more relaxed, including a wider range of social words and abbreviations common in everyday digital communication. The result is a word list that’s simultaneously broader and stranger than Scrabble’s.
With over 173,000 valid words, WWF allows slang and informal terms that Scrabble would reject outright: BROMANCE, for instance, is a perfectly legal WWF play.
But the logic isn’t always consistent. You can play BFF, FOMO, and TFW but not LOL or OMG.
VAPE is valid but VAPES, VAPED, and VAPING are not.
The dictionary has cases that don’t always make intuitive sense, which is exactly why a checker matters.