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Published: 26 July 2019

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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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Written by HG

Category: Wordplay

Published: 02 July 2019

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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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Published: 27 June 2019

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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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Published: 20 June 2019

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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 ?

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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