Saturday brain teaser: Spelling and vocabulary.

JB

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How many common, correctly spelled English words can you make from the following 5 letters. You must use all 5 letters once in each word.<br /><br />AEGLR<br /><br />What are the words?<br /><br />(202)
 

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Re: Saturday brain teaser: Spelling and vocabulary.

I count four...<br /><br />plus one proper surname.<br /><br />Should I put them up now, or wait a bit?
 

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I've got five with no propers
 

Fishin' Jeff

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Scratch that 5...one questionable word is not in my dictionary.<br />Down to four but still trying.
 

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Does a proper name count?<br /><br />Ive got six if my two proper names count.
 

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I've got 15<br /><br />ear, are, leg, gel, ale, age, rag, gar, lag, rage, gale, lear, earl, regal, large.<br /><br />Make that 16<br /><br />lea
 

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Originally posted by RPJS:<br /> I've got 15<br /><br />ear, are, leg, gel, ale, age, rag, gar, lag, rage, gale, lear, earl, regal, large.
You must use all 5 letters once in each word.<br />
Nope,.......<br />You've got 2....
 

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I'll throw a few down for starters.<br />glare,large,regal,lager,grael,grale
 

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Originally posted by Bondo:<br />
Originally posted by RPJS:<br /> I've got 15<br /><br />ear, are, leg, gel, ale, age, rag, gar, lag, rage, gale, lear, earl, regal, large.
You must use all 5 letters once in each word.<br />
Nope,.......<br />You've got 2....
One day I'll learn to read :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 

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Originally posted by rolmops:<br /> I'll throw a few down for starters.<br />grael,grale
What are these? My dictionary says "grail".<br /><br />Those are the same ones I have and my two proper are Alger, Horatio and Elger, Sir name.
 

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Originally posted by Reel Poor:<br />
Originally posted by rolmops:<br /> I'll throw a few down for starters.<br />grael,grale
What are these? My dictionary says "grail".<br /><br />Those are the same ones I have and my two proper are Alger, Horatio and Elger, Sir name.
Just checked.You are right. Both words are middle english and no longer in use.If you want to see them written in literature,read "Sir Lancelot and the grene Knigte"
 

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Can I use this: "ragle" As in; Daz a ragle azz traylor unner dat boat. :D
 

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The GLARE from the windshield of a Buick REGAL caused me to spill my LARGE LAGER!
 

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Originally posted by Fisherman Jeff:<br /> The GLARE from the windshield of a Buick REGAL caused me to spill my LARGE LAGER!
If you would fix dat ragle azz sun visor you wouldnt have that problem..
 

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Re: Saturday brain teaser: Spelling and vocabulary.

Originally posted by JB:<br /> How many common, correctly spelled English words can you make from the following 5 letters. You must use all 5 letters once in each word.<br /><br />AEGLR<br /><br />What are the words?<br /><br />(202)
Does that mean that a letter can be added as long as the word contains each of the listed letters once?
 

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Re: Saturday brain teaser: Spelling and vocabulary.

The ragle azz vizor blew out the widow due to the stong northeast GALER.
 

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Re: Saturday brain teaser: Spelling and vocabulary.

Way to go, Jeff!! :D
 
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Re: Saturday brain teaser: Spelling and vocabulary.

I think that gel is an abbreviation rather than a word. There is a name for fish that take any bait. SEE: Have you seen any of these.
 

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hahahaahah you smart guys are killing me.<br /> that may have been me with that ragle azz tralor :)
 

Reel Poor

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Re: Saturday brain teaser: Spelling and vocabulary.

So JB what are the five common words and their proper spelling?
 
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