6 LETTER WORD ANAGRAM: L A I S E L

3 letter words
AIL
ALE
ALL
ELL
ILL
LEA
LEI
LIE
SEA

4 LETTER WORDS
AILS
ALES
ELLS
ILEA
ILLS
ISLE
LEAS
LEIS
LIES
SAIL
SALE
SEAL
SELL
SILL

5 LETTER WORDS
AISLE
LISLE

6 LETTER WORDS:
ALLIES

8 Scrabble Players in Cheyenne

In Oct 2010 I moved to Cheyenne, WY and within a few days started a scrabble club. After a year I've got 8 regular members...a couple of people have come for a couple of times and then never come again.

I had a Scrabble tourney today - and we had a nice write-up in the local Cheyenne paper on Wednesday, talking about the club and mentioning the tourney.

Result? 1 - 1! new person on Thursday, and that same new person today (who wiped the floor with the competition.) No spectators, nobody else.

Very disappointing.

Don't know if the new guy will continue to come, he's young and rather brusque, so not really fun to play even for the guys most nearly at his level...

Typical!

30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary

Okay, not specifically Scrabble related - I should be studying words with multiple Is, words with Js, Zs, Qs, all that stuff.

But, in my opinion, Scrabble players should know the meanings of every word they play!

Test V - hononyms
1. why does modern music have such a strange [a) affect b) effect] on you?

2. Most buildings have [a) stationary b) stationery] walls.

3. The [a) principal b) principle] features of Southern California are sunshine and smog.

4. Sitting contentedly by the fire, the cat licked [a) it's b) its] paws

5. His vocal [a) cods b) chords] were inflamed

6. he sat for hours [a) poring b) pouring] over the dictionary.

7. He listened with [a) baited b) bated] breath for the second shoe to fall.

8. Admiral Nelson is famous for one of the most important [a) navel b) naval] encounters in British history.

9. The scene of the accident was lighted by a huge [a) flare b) flair].

10. The boxer made a [a) feint b) faint] with his left.

And not precisely an honynym but one I see pretty often.

11. It's a [a) mute b) moot] point.


Bibliography
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary

Only 8 people in Cheyene, WY play scrabble

At least that's what it seems like.

I'm having a recreational Scrabble tournament on Saturday - there was an article in the paper about my Scrabble club yesterday - and people were asked to pre-register, no one's doing it.

My weekly Scrabble meeting is tonight..I'm hoping we'll get some new people but I am not really sanguine...

I guess this explains why no one ever holds Scrabble Tournaments in Wyoming or Colorado - closest place that has a tournament - a sanctoned tournament - is Texas,. And that's where I intend to go next year. And that's what my training in this blog is all about.

But I sure do wish I could get some more members of my scrabble club here...

2 letter A-words, quiz

There are 16 two letter A words.

Name them.

(AC, AF, AJ, AO, AP, AQ, AU and AZ are NOT words.)

2 letter words and their definitions, Part 2

BA - eternal soul, in Egyptian mythology

BE - 1st person singular

BI - bisexual

BO - pal

BY - a pass in certain card games

DE - used in names

DO - to begin and carry through to completion

2 letter words - help remembering

There are 16 2-letter words

There are 5 B-words

There are 2 D words

There are 10 E words

There are F words

There is 1 G-word

There are 5 H-words

There are 5 I words

There is 1 J word

There are 2 K words

There are 3 L-words

There are 7 M-words

There are 4 N-words

There are 13 O-words

There are 3 P-words

There is1 Q-word

There is 1 R word

There are 3 S-words

There are 3 T words

There are 6 U words

There are 2 W words

There are 2 X words

There are 3 Y words

There is 1Z word

2 letter words and their definitions, part 1

There are NO 2-letter words beginning with V or C.

The As are easy to remember, I admit.

AA - a rough type of lava. (The opposite of that is PAHOEHOE, "smooth, billowy lava). Both Hawaiian words.

AB - an abominal muscle

AD - an advertisement

AE - one (not sure how you'd ever use this in a sentence, but it's a Scots word.)

AH - aah.

AI - a 3-toed sloth in the forests of Venezuela, Guianas and northern Brazil

AL - an East Indian mulberry tree

AM - 1st person singular

AN - indefinate article

AR - the letter R

AS - to the same degree

AT - in the position of

AW - used to express protest, disgust or disbelief.

AX - cutting tool

AY - aye (yes, as in "Aye, Aye, sir)






_____________________
Bibliography
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition. Merriam-Webster.

My Scrabble Club

I moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming a year ago, and started a Scrabble Club shortly thereafter. We meet every Thursday at the Cheyenne County Library, if anyone would like to visit us and play Scrabble.

It's been an educational experience, as I learned over the course of the last year just how much I didnt' know. I'd say half of our members (there are 8 regulars) are much better scrabble players than me, a couple our really just beginners, and perhaps one or two are at my level.

We've got a new member now who is serious about learning Scrabble words - the two letter words, the 7 letter bingoes, etc. He doesn't intend to enter any tournaments (as I do) he's simply interested in elevating his game.

And so that is who this blog is for to, as well as those who are interested in attending tournaments. Whether you want to learn new words just to...well, to learn them!, or because you want to go to a tourney someday, learn with me.

Manifesto, October 10, 2011

On October 16, 2012,I want to have learned/memorized the over 100,000 2-to-8 letter words in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (the American edition!) as well as Scrabble strategy, so that I can compete at a decent level in an NSA sponsored Scrabble tournament.

Learn along with me.