What the heck is a polyorth?

Oh, I love how Scrabble players love to make up words to describe other words. Here's an example from OSPD Polyorths.

I define a polyorth to be a word with three or more different spellings in the OSPD (TWL98).

It's no surprise that many of these words have been recently borrowed from other languages. Therefore, their spellings have not been standardized.

I guess the most famous of the polyorths is mentioned in Everything Scrabble: DJIN DJINN DJINNI DJINNY GENIE JIN JINN JINNEE JINNI.

I've already mentioned that I use these a lot: VUG VUGG VUGH.

But some of these are great surprises. It's like getting something on sale: learning one word but getting three more at the same time.

You might know KAF, but do you know: CAPH KAPH KHAF KHAPH?

Hey, I knew QURSH and QURUSH, but i didn't know GIRSH and GURSH.

QUETZAL doesn't make the list. It's only got one alternate spelling: QUEZAL. I could call it a bi-orth.

By the way, POLYORTH* is not good.