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With many people going on holiday in the next few weeks, why not use your destination as a word-learning exercise.
We recently had a weekend break in CARDIFF so using that as your rack..
What are the 4 and 5 letter words you can make from the rack CARDIFF.
There are 24 words, 7 are mainly everyday words, if you can find 10-14 well done, and 14 or more excellent.
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ACID, CADI, CAID
ACRID, CAIRD, CARDI, DARIC
CARD, DRAC
CAFF
FARCI
CRIA
DAFF
DRAFF
FARD
ARID, DARI, RAID, RIAD
RAFF
FAIR, FIAR
DIFF
RIFF
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As from July 1, the UK Scrabble movement, and East Berks Scrabble Club have adopted Collins Scrabble Words 2019 (CSW 19) as the definitive word adjudication word list.
Some of the new words include :
EW
OK
ZE
BAE
BAO
DOX
UME
VAX
ZEN
Please note that articles written before July 1 relate to Collins Scrabble words 2015 unless otherwise stated.
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Collins Scrabble Words (CSW19) will be valid for all UK games from July 1 2019.
There are not that many new words to learn, compared to previous world list changes. For example, there are only 3 new two letter words. (EW, OK, ZE)
There are 6 three letter words to learn :
BAE - a sweetheart or lover
BAO – a steamed dumpling
DOX – to publish a document on the internet
UME – a fleshy, yellow fruit
VAX – short for vaccination
ZEN – a state of calm attentiveness
To help you remember the words, and associate them with other allowable words here are some simple quizzes based on 3 of these words.
1. What are the 2 other anagrams of UME?
2. Besides UME, what other 3 letter words start UM ?
3. Besides UME, what other 3 letter words end ME ?
4. Besides VAX, what other three letter words start VA?
5. Besides VAX, what other three letter words end AX?
6. Besdies ZEN, what other 3 letter words start ZE?
7. Besides ZEN, what other 3 letter words end EN?
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1. 1. EMU, MEU + UME
2. 2. UMM, UMP, UMS, UMU + UME
3. 3. AME, EME + UME
4. 4. VAC, VAE, VAG, VAN, VAR, VAS, VAT, VAU, VAV,VAW + VAX
5. 5. FAX, LAX, MAX, PAX, RAX, SAX, TAX, WAX, ZAX + VAX
6. 6. ZEA, ZED, ZEE, ZEK, ZEL,ZEP,ZEX + ZEN
7. 7, BEN, DEN, EEN, FEN, GEN, HEN, KEN, MEN, PEN, REN, SEN, TEN, WEN, YEN + ZEN
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Collins Scrabble Words (CSW19) will be valid for all UK games from July 1 2019.
There are not that many new words to learn, compared to previous world list changes. For example, there are only 3 new two letter words. (EW, OK, ZE)
There are 6 three letter words to learn :
BAE - a sweetheart or lover
BAO – a steamed dumpling
DOX – to publish a document on the internet
UME – a fleshy, yellow fruit
VAX – short for vaccination
ZEN – a state of calm attentiveness
To help you remember the words, and associate them with other allowable words here are some simple quizzes based on 3 of these words.
1. Besides B, what other letters can precede AE to make a three letter word ?
2. Besides BAE and BAO what are the other three letter words that start BA ?
3. What other three words end AO ? (besides BAO)
4. What are the other 3 anagrams of BAO ? (besides BAO)
5. Besides DOX , what three letter words start with DO ?
6. Besides DOX, what other three letter words end with OX ?
Answers :
1. . DAE, FAE, GAE, HAE, KAE, MAE, NAE, SAE, TAE, VAE, WAE, YAE + BAE
2. BAA, BAC, BAD, BAG, BAH, BAL, BAM, BAN, BAP, BAR, BAS, BAT, BAY + BAE,BAO
3. HAO, TAO + BAO
4. ABO, BOA, OBA +BAO
5. DOB, DOC, DOD, DOE, DOF, DOG, DOH, DOL, DOM, DON, DOO, DOP, DOR, DOS,DOT, DOW, DOY + DOX
6. BOX, COX, FOX, GOX, HOX, LOX, NOX, POX, SOX, VOX, WOX + DOX
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Collins Scrabble Words (CSW19) will be valid for all UK games from July 1 2019.
There are not that many new words to learn, compared to previous world list changes. For example, there are only 3 new two letter words.
These are :
EW – an interjection expressing disgust
OK – an interjection expressing assent
ZE – a gender-neutral third person singular subjective pronoun used instead of ‘they’
To help you remember the words, and associate them with other allowable words here are some simple quizzes.
Note – some knowledge of the new 3 letter words may be useful!
a) a) What other 2 letter words end in W ?
b) b) What three letter words (if any) start with EW or end with EW ?
c) c) What other 2 letter words contain a K ?
d) d) What three letter words (if any) start with OK or end with OK?
e) e) What other 2 letter words start with a Z ?
f) f) What three letter words (if any) start with ZE or end with ZE ?
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a) Besides EW, there are AW and OW
b) EWE, EWK and EWT.
DEW, EEW, FEW, HEW, JEW, LEW, MEW, NEW, PEW, REW, SEW, TEW and YEW.
c) Besides OK, there are KA, KI, KO and KY.
d) OKA and OKE.
BOK, ROK, WOK and YOK.
e) Besides ZE, there is ZA and ZO.
f) ZEA, ZED. ZEE, ZEK, ZEL, ZEN, ZEP and ZEX.
There are no words ending -ZE.
Note, none of the new 3 letters words can be pluralised. ZEN is a new three letter word.
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