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Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2022 7:42 pm
by ratammer
staring
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2022 10:08 pm
by phillip1882
taring
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 1:10 am
by ratammer
Hm, not in Lexico, don't think we can have that one, sorry
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 5:38 pm
by phillip1882
I don't get the squiggle red line when I try it.
but ok.
searing
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 7:04 pm
by The Snide Sniper
smearing
I think to get out of gerundland all we need to do is change the G to something else.
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 11:08 pm
by phillip1882
well the only other letters that commonly follows an N is an E or a Y.
shearing
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 12:24 am
by ratammer
hearing
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 1:34 am
by The Snide Sniper
herring
Actually, I think it would be best to go for a D or a T. Like "grind" or "sink".
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 8:41 pm
by ratammer
erring
Sink would be a K, not T?
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 10:55 pm
by phillip1882
earing
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 11:04 pm
by ratammer
eating
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 3:39 pm
by phillip1882
beating
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 9:58 pm
by ratammer
betting
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 12:05 am
by The Snide Sniper
setting
Okay, I've got this figured out. We need to go setting -> seating -> sealing -> sealine
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 1:27 am
by phillip1882
seating
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2022 8:48 pm
by ratammer
The Snide Sniper wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 12:05 am
setting
Okay, I've got this figured out. We need to go setting -> seating -> sealing -> sealine
"Sealine" isn't on Lexico, unfortunately. However, next person can remove a g from:
sating
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2022 8:50 pm
by The Snide Sniper
satin
ratammer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 8:48 pm
The Snide Sniper wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 12:05 am
setting
Okay, I've got this figured out. We need to go setting -> seating -> sealing -> sealine
"Sealine" isn't on Lexico, unfortunately. However, next person can remove a g from:
sating
Well, I wasn't using Lexico, I was using /usr/dict/words.
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2022 8:54 pm
by ratammer
satis
The rules of this thread specify Lexico, to avoid argument about whose word list is best.
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 1:19 am
by chridd
sates
(technically, you could have gotten out of gerunds with earing -> earring)
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 2:43 am
by The Snide Sniper
slates
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 6:43 am
by ratammer
slate
chridd wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 1:19 am
(technically, you could have gotten out of gerunds with earing -> earring)
It would have been quite hard to
stay out of gerunds that way, though.
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 6:47 am
by chridd
skate
(hence the "technically")
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 5:59 pm
by phillip1882
skated
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 7:16 pm
by ratammer
seated
Re: One Letter Word Game
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 9:03 pm
by phillip1882
heated