During the Winter League Season we ask players to write down challenges on the results slips. These words can be used as useful pointers to other words too.
Recently after a game of Boggle, www.fuzzylogicinc.net/boggle was used to check how many words we had NOT found in the grid. There were quite a few, most of which we knew but didn’t find in the time. However some of the others caught our eye…
CANEH ALANE HAEN ONCET
They can all be formed by hooking common words on a Scrabble board : CANE+H, ALAN+E, A+LANE, HAE+N, ONCE+T. We then used zyzzyva (though probably other word lookup tools are available) to find other anagrams and hooks.
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Anagrams of unusual word |
Base word being hooked |
Front hooks to the base |
Back hooks to the base |
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CANEH |
HANCE |
CANE |
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CANED |
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NACHE |
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CANEH |
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CANER |
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CANES |
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ALANE |
none |
ALAN |
none |
ALAND |
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ALANE |
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ALANG |
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ALANS |
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ALANT |
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ALANE |
none |
LANE |
ALANE |
LANES |
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FLANE |
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PLANE |
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SLANE |
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HAEN |
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HAE |
THAE |
HAED |
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WHAE |
HAEM |
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HAEN |
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HAES |
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HAET |
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ONCET |
CENTO |
ONCE |
BONCE |
ONCER |
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CONTE |
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NONCE |
ONCES |
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PONCE |
ONCET |
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SONCE |
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Next time you challenge a word, why not write it down, and look up the many derivatives later. Lots of new words for the price of one!
