10 obscure words that will help you beat anyone at Scrabble

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Check out the final board from a World Scrabble Championship and you might feel like you're reading a foreign language.

You'd only know all those words if, like many Scrabble champions, you'd spent months poring over the dictionary, learning names for plant parts and ancient instruments.

We dug up the words from the last four years of Scrabble championships and highlighted some of the weirdest below. See if you can guess what they mean — we've included the definitions, too.

From Merriam-Webster: Plural of gynoecium, or "the aggregate of carpels or pistils in a flower"

From Merriam-Webster: Archaic variant of piragua, or "a 2-masted flat-bottomed boat"

From Merriam-Webster: An alternate spelling of catty, or "any of various units of weight of China and southeast Asia varying around 1 1⁄3 pounds"