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  2. Transposed letter effect - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, the transposed letter effect is a test of how a word is processed when two letters within the word are switched.. The phenomenon takes place when two letters in a word (typically called a base word) switch positions to create a new string of letters that form a new, non-word (typically called a transposed letter non-word or TL non-word).

  3. Scrabble variants - Wikipedia

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    Local variants include Take One or Take Four; the banning of 2 letter words; having a dictionary on hand for any players to use (but since it is a game of speed, this doesn't get used much); a bonus of 50 points for building a specific word, a bonus for longest word (number of letters in word, not tile values; and only if a single player has ...

  4. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Univocalic: a type of poetry that uses only one vowel; Palindrome: a word or phrase that reads the same in either direction; Pangram: a sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet at least once; Tautogram: a phrase or sentence in which every word starts with the same letter; Caesar shift: moving all the letters in a word or sentence some ...

  5. Game of the Day: Just Words - AOL

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    Just Words is a word game for one or two players where you scores points by making new words using singularly lettered tiles on a board, bringing you the classic SCRABBLE experience, but with a twist!

  6. Acrostic (puzzle) - Wikipedia

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    Letters 16 and 17 form a two-letter word ending in P. Since this has to be UP, letter 16 is a U, which can be filled into the appropriate clue answer in the list of clues. Likewise, a three-letter word starting with A could be and, any, all, or even a proper name like Ann. One might need more clue answers before daring to guess which it could be.

  7. Anagram - Wikipedia

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    In Anagrams, players flip tiles over one at a time and race to take words. They can "steal" each other's words by rearranging the letters and extending the words. In a version of Scrabble called Clabbers, the name itself is an anagram of Scrabble. Tiles may be placed in any order on the board as long as they anagram to a valid word.

  8. Wikipedia:List of two-letter combinations - Wikipedia

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    This list of all two-letter combinations includes 1352 (2 × 26 2) of the possible 2704 (52 2) combinations of upper and lower case from the modern core Latin alphabet. A two-letter combination in bold means that the link links straight to a Wikipedia article (not a disambiguation page).

  9. Yodh - Wikipedia

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    As a consonant, it is pronounced as a palatal approximant /j/, typically at the beginnings of words in front of short or long vowels. A long /iː/ usually in the middle or end of words. In this case it has no diacritic, but could be marked with a kasra in the preceding letter in some traditions.