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Warning: if you don't know Scrabble words you will be utterly destroyed. For example "REC" is valid: "An abbreviation for recreation". What the f-? HAHA

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The npc just won a battle with the word st, defined as "expressing a sudden desire for silence".

Hmm, that's apparently sourced from Wiktionary. Wiktionary is great, but has a very broad concept of "word".

We source the definitions from Wiktionary, but have a much higher bar for words to count as valid in the game. ST comes up often, as I agree it's one of the iffier words, but even Cambridge claims to to be so: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/st

That page only defines it as an abbreviation (for saint, short ton, street, or stone).

Ah, 2am reading comprehension on my part. Yes, if we ever remove rather than add to the dictionary in the future I might look to axe it.

Yes, please ax "st".

"ST is not a playable word" per https://scrabble.merriam.com

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