Senior Solutions

The most well-known letter groups are RETINA, SATINE and SATIRE. You will notice that none of them include the letter O, but maybe there is a SENIOR solution for that. No, it isn’t quite as good as the big 3, but if you take 6 tiles and see SENIOR then as you reach back into the bag to take one of the remaining 94 tiles there are 74 of them that will make a 7 letter word. Just 20 that will not. More than half of the ‘bogey’ letters are the other 11 E’s because that is the only major letter that will not fit.

A Grade Challenge

8 letter words, all including the letters SENIOR

S     E     N     I     O     R     E     G

S     E     N     I     O     R     K     T

S     E     N     I     O     R     L     M

S     E     N     I     O     R     T     X

S     E     N     I     O     R     C     R

B & C Grade Study List

This week I have chosen to give you a list with 54 words. More than is usual on the B and C learning list, so I am just going to give you all the possibilities for the words which go with each extra letter  and not distract you by listing the meanings

A – ERASION

C – COINERS, CRINOSE, ORCEINS, ORCINES, RECOINS, SERICON

D – DINEROS, DONSIER, INDORSE, ORDINES, ROSINED, SORDINE

G – ERINGOS, IGNORES, REGIONS, SIGNORE

H – HEROINS, INSHORE

I – IONISER, IRONIES, IRONISE, NOISIER

J – JOINERS, REJOINS

L – LIENORS, NEROLIS, SONLIER

M – MERINOS, MERSION

N – RONNIES

O – EROSION

P – ORPINES, PIONERS, PROINES

R – IRONERS, ROSINER

S – ORNISES, SENIORS, SONERIS, SONSIER

T – NORITES, OESTRIN, ORIENTS, STONIER, TERSION, TRIONES

U – URINOSE

V – ENVIROS, RENVOIS, VERSION

W – SNOWIER

X – OREXINS

Answers to A Grade Challenge

ERINGOES   -- Plants that are also called sea hollies

INSTROKE   -- The upstroke of a piston

MISENROL  -- To enrol incorrectly

NITROXES  -- Mixtures of nitrogen and oxygen

RESORCIN  -- A colourless phenol used in dyeing

Happy Scrabbling

Patrick