The strict Swedish word list — just the SAOL 14 faksimil (Svenska Akademiens ordlista) headwords, with no SALDO inflection expansion. It is the SAOL 14 baseline that the standard list builds on, on its own — a leaner, dictionary-style word set for players who want to play SAOL headwords only.
What this is
The strict Swedish word list shipped with Alfa Kraft as Svenska (strikt): every word SAOL 14 prints in bold (Svenska Akademiens ordlista, Svenska Akademien’s normative word list), and nothing else. That means base forms like springa, plus the irregular forms SAOL lists as headwords in their own right — sprang, sprungit, ögon, större, är. The regular inflections SALDO generates (springer, katter, bilar) are not here. That matches how Svenska Scrabbleförbundet counts bold SAOL headwords in tournament play.
It is the SAOL 14 baseline that the standard Swedish list builds on, on its own — without the SALDO Morfologi inflection expansion the standard list adds. Every word here therefore also appears in the standard Swedish dictionary.
Only words in the Swedish alphabet [a-zåäö], 2–15 letters, survive into the final word list — see what gets filtered out below. The build is deterministic: the same inputs always produce the same output.
What gets filtered out
The same filters as the standard list, minus everything SALDO-specific — the strict list never reads SALDO. Dropped:
- Proper nouns (egennamn) — Sverige, Anna, Volvo. Words that double as names stay: björn, ros, sten.
- Abbreviations (förkortningar) — osv., dvs., bl.a., in every word class.
- Multi-word entries (till exempel) and compound elements (hälso-) — neither is a single playable word.
- Anything outside the alphabet — 2–15 letters from
[a-zåäö]; digits and punctuation are out, and accents fold to their Swedish equivalent (é → e).
Sources & credit
One source, from Språkbanken (University of Gothenburg):
- SAOL 14 (faksimil) — Svenska Akademiens ordlista, from Språkbanken’s SAOL 14 faksimil — the bold headwords.
The standard Swedish list adds inflected forms from SALDO Morfologi; the strict list does not.
Alfa Kraft is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed by Svenska Akademien or Svenska Scrabbleförbundet. The SAOL 14 headwords are taken from the SAOL 14 faksimil published by Språkbanken; to obtain the source data, follow the Språkbanken link above.