The story behind Free Scrabble Dictionary is one I love to tell — it's funny how we got started.
In 2008 the site was born from a conversation with a co-worker. He told me he hated playing his mother-in-law at Scrabble because she knew every word and whether it was real. I'm a web developer, so an idea popped into my head: "How about I build you a website that, no matter what you type, always returns a definition?" He loved it. That night I bought freescrabbledictionary.com, had the site up within a couple of hours, and added four obscure definitions for words nobody would know for sure. Yes — four definitions. 🙂
A year and a half later I'd completely forgotten about it. I looked one day and it was still running, so I added traffic tracking — and the next day it was pulling around 5,000 visitors and nearly 250,000 page views. The whole time, the dictionary had four definitions and was returning a "definition" for anything you typed. Apologies to anyone who trusted us back then — I promise it wasn't on purpose.
Today Free Scrabble Dictionary is one of the leading Scrabble-dictionary sites on the web. We've rebuilt it from the ground up: every word in the official NASPA word list, a broad English dictionary on top, real definitions from Wiktionary, points, anagrams, word lists, and tools for Scrabble, Words With Friends and more.
We're grateful to our loyal players and always welcome comments and questions — get in touch.