Friday Find-a-word: Caribbean
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posted 8 years ago
How many standard dictionary words, three letters or longer, can you make using the letters in the word Caribbean?
Some easy examples are:
care, bean, bear...
[ December 05, 2008: Message edited by: Bert Bates ]
Some easy examples are:
care, bean, bear...
[ December 05, 2008: Message edited by: Bert Bates ]
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Bert Bates
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posted 8 years ago
So far, my own loose editing and very loose sorting summarizes the entries as:
are, ace
bean, bear, bare, bin, brine, brane?, brain, brair, bribe, brace
brie, bane, babe, ban
care, car, cab, crab, crib, can, carbine!, crane, cane, cairn!, crier,
ear,
ire, ice,
nib, near, nice
rib, rabbi, ran, rain, rein, rice, race
To which I'll add:
cabin, acre, narc?, nab...
are, ace
bean, bear, bare, bin, brine, brane?, brain, brair, bribe, brace
brie, bane, babe, ban
care, car, cab, crab, crib, can, carbine!, crane, cane, cairn!, crier,
ear,
ire, ice,
nib, near, nice
rib, rabbi, ran, rain, rein, rice, race
To which I'll add:
cabin, acre, narc?, nab...
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posted 8 years ago
[Bert]: brane?
brane
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Sadly, I must now bow out of further word-listing, at least until most of the other players give up. As Paul C speculated in his post, there are indeed online resources that can help with this, and I've read some of their results. Consequently I think it's no longer fair for me to present answers as if they're things I thought of myself. Everything I posted previously came from my own memory. But now I've been corrupted by external sources.
I will offer one cryptic hint though:
There is at least one other seven-letter word, besides carbine, that I wish I'd though of myself. I think it's somewhat less obscure than carbine was. And oddly enough, I was kind of tempted to use the word in the preceding sentence.
It's not quite so esoteric as carbine - and yet, in a sense, it's more obscure and esoteric than carbine.
I have said too much already. I must go.
brane
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Sadly, I must now bow out of further word-listing, at least until most of the other players give up. As Paul C speculated in his post, there are indeed online resources that can help with this, and I've read some of their results. Consequently I think it's no longer fair for me to present answers as if they're things I thought of myself. Everything I posted previously came from my own memory. But now I've been corrupted by external sources.
I will offer one cryptic hint though:
There is at least one other seven-letter word, besides carbine, that I wish I'd though of myself. I think it's somewhat less obscure than carbine was. And oddly enough, I was kind of tempted to use the word in the preceding sentence.
It's not quite so esoteric as carbine - and yet, in a sense, it's more obscure and esoteric than carbine. I have said too much already. I must go.
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posted 8 years ago
carb(SF allowed?), bicarb,arena, arc, bier, baric, baba!
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