What's the proper format for an SPF record?

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Published on 2011-01-28T07:53:44Z Indexed on 2011/01/28 23:28 UTC
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Querying my domain I get:

The TXT records found for your domain are:
v=spf1 ip4:50.22.72.198 a mx:wordswithfriends.net ~all

So superficially it appears OK. However I also get the following message

SPF records should also be published in DNS as type SPF records.
No type SPF records found.

I want to make sure things are absolutely airtight. So in addition to TXT records I also want a pure SPF record. However I cannot figure out the format. Placing the same text in an SPF record does not seem to work.

Edit:

At the moment I have a TXT record but not SPF record. When I cut and paste from TXT straight to SPF I get some type of crazy recursive DNS error so quickly deleted the SPF. I just want to know the correct format. Copying

v=spf1 ip4:50.22.72.198 a mx:wordswithfriends.net ~all

Straight into an SPF record doesn't work.

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