I thought it might be interesting to look at some higher scoring 4 letter words without listing the ones with J, Q, X and Z that everyone has already seen. Let's use the letters H and K. How many 4 letter words can you list that have both an H and a K in them? I am not even going to tell you how many there are. Just grab that scrap of paper sitting next to your computer and start writing down the ones that you know. I am sure that you can think of some! STOP RIGHT THERE Yes,

There are some words that you might think take an S for a plural when in fact they don’t, but you can hook an S at the beginning instead. The list below shows first the base word, followed by words made by hooking a letter in front and then finally any words that can be made by hooking a letter afterwards. Because the base word can never be followed with an S there might be no words in that final column. Also, I am listing so many words, that I won’t be including the meanings

This is a list of some 8 letter words ending in –ING. It was inspired by my spotting an anagram pair both of which I would have considered challenging because they looked as though the base word was a noun rather than a verb. That pair was: BAGELING Beating someone 6-0 at tennis. The zero is referred to as a bagel BEAGLING Hunting with beagles I have chosen 8 letter words to look at for this because it means the past tense of BEAGLED and BAGELED are also words of bi

Sometimes you get a nice easy 7 letter word on your rack, but it doesn’t fit on the board. A good example would be ROUTINE. There is no other anagram so if the only 7 letter word you have doesn’t fit you will either have to find an 8 letter word using something on the board or you will have to play OU somewhere for a small score and hope to get lucky drawing to INTER. So what 8 letter words might you be able to make with ROUTINE plus one other letter? There are 13 of them. I