No. You are allowed to use only the words for the language version of Scrabble you are playing. However, if two people want to play a game of Scrabble and allow foreign words, they can make up whatever supplemental rules they like. There are no universal Scrabble police to stop you.
Not usually. There are two major exceptions though: --If the word has been adopted into the English language, then yes. Make sure you check an English dictionary to see if the word is there. --If you are playing a non-English version of Scrabble, then they definitely are, and English words might be off-limits.
Words that are always capitalized are not acceptable words in Scrabble.
JO is an acceptable scrabble word. Searching the internet many sites have all the acceptable words for a game of scrabble and JO is repeated on 90% of these websites as being correct.
Not unless you are playing a Scrabble game that allows foreign words. (Amore is French.) If you are competing in an English language Scrabble tournament, you will not be able to use the word.
YES, XI is acceptable (it's a Greek letter). [HINT: All of the letters of the Greek alphabet are acceptable words in Scrabble.]
See related links for a list of official Scrabble 2-letter words.
URL is not an acceptable Scrabble word. Merriam-Webster's Official Scrabble Players Dictionary is the official scrabble dictionary. URL is not included in the official dictionary as an acceptable word. Abbreviations are not acceptable words unless the letters also form a word that is a part of speech.
I prefer playing Scrabble.
Yes, conjunctions are words, and are hence acceptable plays in Scrabble (so long as these words appear in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition).
Merriam-Webster's Official Scrabble Players Dictionary is the official tournament and club list of acceptable Scrabble words. It lists playable words that contain 2 - 8 letters. The word condition is not in the "official" dictionary because it contains 9 letters.
Yes. Any word that meets the Scrabble rules is allowed (e.g. allowed and aloud both are acceptable Scrabble words).
The connecting letter should be able to create a valid word acceptable in the scrabble game.