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You can now play 'bestie,' 'turnt,' and 'hangry' in Words With Friends

Sep 19, 2017, 18:42 IST

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One of America's most popular word-game apps just got a huge injection of new vocabulary.

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Words With Friends, the Scrabble-like game developed by Zynga, added more than 50,000 words to its dictionary on Tuesday, including modern-day slang like bestie, turnt, and hangry.

Other words that will now be playable include delish, queso, wordie, bae, and even acronyms such as FOMO - that's "fear of missing out" - and "TFW" - or "that feel when," in internet-speak.

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Zynga is calling the massive expansion its "Social Dictionary," and timed its release to the game's eighth anniversary, the company said in a press release.

According to the company, many of the newly added words were ones that users frequently requested through the game's word-lookup function.

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However, it's not the first time the word game has responded to popular demand for particular words. Earlier this year, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon celebrated the addition of the two-letter word "ew" to the Words With Friends dictionary in honor of a recurring segment on the show. And the infamous presidential typo "covfefe" became playable almost immediately after Donald Trump used it in a cryptic tweet this summer.

Words With Friends has been downloaded more than 200 million times since 2009, the company said, making it one of the App Store's 10 most-popular free games of all time.

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