Favourite words found

[DrPlacebo]

Just found BARRATORS. I always find it especially satisfying to find common law terms that aren't often used today.

[kittencaboodle]

Congratulations! Maybe everyone else was too busy procrastinating?
I have a theory that some patterns are more difficult to find than others. I don't mean the words themselves, but how the letters are distributed in the boards. As a swiper (because my typing skills are abysmal), I try to get a feel of the shapes and patterns of the hidden words, and sometimes this feels like trying my brain into knots. Some long words sit there as plain as day and it takes a real effort to find anything but the longest word on the board. Others are better at hiding and pretending to look like a random jumble of letters.
The other day, I found PRESTIGIOUSLY in a 4x4 that had been played 34 times and the previous longest word had been 7 letters. These types of finds are the most gratifying.

Oooh, so satisfying - congrats to you!

[crazykate]

I just played a board that had been played 33 times, and while there were several 9+ words indicated, the previous longest word was only 8 letters long. I believe I found the easter eggs: PROCRASTINATE and PROCRASTINATES. Why no-one else could see them is a total mystery!

Congratulations! Maybe everyone else was too busy procrastinating?
I have a theory that some patterns are more difficult to find than others. I don't mean the words themselves, but how the letters are distributed in the boards. As a swiper (because my typing skills are abysmal), I try to get a feel of the shapes and patterns of the hidden words, and sometimes this feels like trying my brain into knots. Some long words sit there as plain as day and it takes a real effort to find anything but the longest word on the board. Others are better at hiding and pretending to look like a random jumble of letters.
The other day, I found PRESTIGIOUSLY in a 4x4 that had been played 34 times and the previous longest word had been 7 letters. These types of finds are the most gratifying.

[kittencaboodle]

I just played a board that had been played 33 times, and while there were several 9+ words indicated, the previous longest word was only 8 letters long. I believe I found the easter eggs: PROCRASTINATE and PROCRASTINATES. Why no-one else could see them is a total mystery!

[Spike1007]

I really didn't think it would work, but I just got PARADOXOGRAPHERS.

[BoggleOtaku]

Saw CYBERSQUATTING in hex, but ran out of time to finish typing. Has that been spotted before (trying to figure out if hex has new dictionary words)?

[Naboka]

Ran across these in back to back games. Was going to comment on the first, so took a screen shot, then played another game, and...

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You'd think that to take something out of a charnel house, you'd have to put something in, but charnelling isn't a word apparently.

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Here's a word that has always been relevant, (though coined in early 1800's) but should get more play these days. Like kakistocracy and kleptocracy.
Except rule by gold.

Love this picture of the scales off justice being influenced by money. Stolen justice.

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[BoggleOtaku]

Kakizume is the culinary stuffing of persimmons (柿詰め). Close!

[Naboka]

Sometimes I just enjoy knowing fun words. I just played AGUTI, not a particularly high scoring word, but the letters were there and I felt smug knowing what it was 😄

That's a good find. Never seen it spelled that way. But that's the thing about wordtwist--the discoveries.

Since my hand's messed up, I've been exploring long and UR words on boards with fewer words available. Frankensteining words--my new hobby.

After reading your post, found a word I've never seen before. Kakizome. Kaki 's a persimmon But kaki-stocracy's? Kaki-something? Had noticed -zome as in rhiz-ome? Why not try it? Kaki-zome? And it worked! Cracked me up.

All those endorphins flooding your brain when you succeed. Makes it addictive.

All of my guesses as to it's meaning were fruitless. It's Japanese for "first writing," and applies to the first calligraphy done at the beginning of the year. All those rich concepts that have meaning in other cultures. Fascinating.

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[crazykate]

Sometimes I just enjoy knowing fun words. I just played AGUTI, not a particularly high scoring word, but the letters were there and I felt smug knowing what it was 😄

[Naboka]

This is for lalatan.

Ran across a game where you had gotten a 16/30.

Opening the board, the underpinning 12 letter word took about 3 seconds, but couldn't for the life of me add the last 4 until time almost ran out.

Microbes in the air. Good find.

[DrPlacebo]

CONTANGO always strikes me as an oddball word when I see it in business news, not least because no one seems to have much of an idea about the etymology.

(Also got points for the plural forms CONTANGOS and CONTANGOES.)

[Boulevardiere]

Ah, thanks! I've watched a few episodes of Dr Who, but it's a very niche thing in my country, not like in the UK where it's part of the culture

I stand corrected! That's the only place I've ever seen/heard the word, and it became quite a thing for a while, so I assumed. Never mind, carry on!

[crazykate]

It's from a Dr Who episode showing an advertisement for a perfume, "Petrichor" that has the slogan, "For the girl who's tired of waiting".

Ah, thanks! I've watched a few episodes of Dr Who, but it's a very niche thing in my country, not like in the UK where it's part of the culture

[JJBeanie]

I don't actually know that reference. Could you explain?

It's from a Dr Who episode showing an advertisement for a perfume, "Petrichor" that has the slogan, "For the girl who's tired of waiting".