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dagny
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Using Scrabble rules, what two letters can bookend all five vowels creating three-letter words? For example, let's take T and G:
Tag Teg Tig Tog Tug
Well, two of them don't seem like words. Let's try G and T:
Gat Get Git Got Gut
Well, two of them don't seem to work as well.
There are probably many solutions and I have found some. But is there a solution for all five vowels plus Y? I thought I had one but now see I don't.
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bhunders
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Two?
TAG: an identifying marker TEG: a yearling sheep TIG: TOG: to clothe TUG: to pull with force
Two?
GAT: pistol GET: to aquire GIT: interj - used as an order of dismissal GOT: past tense of GET GUT: to remove the guts (intestines) of
Definitions taken from 'The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary'.
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davidm
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary
TIG: n. Game of Tag. [var. of Tick]
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Lindy
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Using SOWPODS as a reference:
HAP HEP HIP HOP HUP HYP
all exist. (Got it by thinking of all the words that took Y as a middle letter)
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bhunders
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Which two? Gat is an possible abbreviation for Gatling gun, and Git is in the title of a Monkees song and a very common word in the UK...
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garyncurtis
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GIT: A corruption of 'get', for offspring (in southern US dialect) and used in British dialect, 'worthless git...'
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KlSwena
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I also noted it was on my UKACD word list, but it is not in the OSPD. So it depends on what dictionary is acceptable when playing by 'Scrabble Rules'.
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johnb123
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I was going to claim that it shouldn't be allowed because it's an acronym. But then I looked up the rules and it doesn't say acronyms aren't allowed just abbreviations (along with capitalized, foreign and hyphenated words).
And to think of all the times I've had a whole rack full of consonants
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quest_marsman
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bag beg big bog
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Jaxler
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B and G is my favorite solution to all 5 vowels because it uses all pretty common words. Others have concentrated on my mistake of using 'Scrabble Rules.' I meant only no proper names and not the dictionary which has everything. Anyway... Let's get back to the bigger question: Is there a solution with all common, or near common, words for all 6 vowels? Okay, is there a solution, common or not, with the Scrabble Dictionary?
Someone came up with one (H*P) but there are three odd ones in there and he didn't mention if they were all in the Scrabble Dictionary.
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Javid
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The closest thing I have to all 5 vowels and 'sometimes Y' is:
Dae Dee Die Doe Due Dye
'Dae' isn't in the Scrabble Dictionary as far as the online one goes.
Yes, the H*P solution is good according to the Scrabble Dictionary.
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