Welcome to Zyzzyva!

Zyzzyva is a program to help you study words and practice your anagramming skills. It allows you to search for words, anagrams, and definitions, as well as give yourself quizzes. Zyzzyva is particularly valuable for learning words for word games. Zyzzyva also has a full screen Word Judge mode, which can be useful for determining the validity of words while playing word games.

NASPA Zyzzyva is intended for use by NASPA members as a benefit of membership. NASPA Zyzzyva is maintained by and Copyright © 2005–2021 North American Word Game Players Association, D/B/A NASPA Games.

NASPA Zyzzyva is proprietary software, built on the Qt Toolkit using its optional GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1. Please see COPYING and LICENSE for details. Members can download the latest version from the NASPA Web site.

NASPA Word List 2020 Edition (NWL2020) and 2018 Edition (NWL2018), NASPA School Word List 2020 Edition (NSWL2020) and 2018 Edition (NSWL2018) lexicons, all published by NASPA, for the exclusive use of NASPA members. Collins Official SCRABBLE Words 2021 Edition (CSW21) and 2019 Edition (CSW19), published under license with Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Limited. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the USA and Canada. SCRABBLE™ is a trademark of Mattel, Inc. elsewhere. NASPA and its activities are neither endorsed by nor affiliated with Hasbro or Mattel.

Quick Start

A good place to start is the Quick Start page, which gives a quick overview of the basics.

Table of Contents

Help documentation for Zyzzyva can be found by browsing the Table of Contents. Please read the help documentation before getting started, so you are familiar with the capabilities of Zyzzyva.

Frequently Asked Questions

In addition to this FAQ page, there is also an online FAQ page that covers multiple versions and is regularly updated.

Further Help

If you need help beyond what is available in the documentation, send your question or suggestion to the NASPA Zyzzyva Committee mailing list. There are people on that list who generally respond quickly and helpfully to most questions.


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