One Letter Word Game (New Run 2024-10-21)

[ratammer]

staring

[phillip1882]

taring

[ratammer]

Hm, not in Lexico, don't think we can have that one, sorry

[phillip1882]

I don't get the squiggle red line when I try it.
but ok.
searing

[The Snide Sniper]

smearing

I think to get out of gerundland all we need to do is change the G to something else.

[phillip1882]

well the only other letters that commonly follows an N is an E or a Y.
shearing

[ratammer]

hearing

[The Snide Sniper]

herring

Actually, I think it would be best to go for a D or a T. Like "grind" or "sink".

[ratammer]

erring

Sink would be a K, not T?

[phillip1882]

earing

[ratammer]

eating

[phillip1882]

beating

[ratammer]

betting

[The Snide Sniper]

setting

Okay, I've got this figured out. We need to go setting -> seating -> sealing -> sealine

[phillip1882]

seating

[ratammer]

setting

Okay, I've got this figured out. We need to go setting -> seating -> sealing -> sealine

"Sealine" isn't on Lexico, unfortunately. However, next person can remove a g from:

sating

[The Snide Sniper]

satin

setting

Okay, I've got this figured out. We need to go setting -> seating -> sealing -> sealine

"Sealine" isn't on Lexico, unfortunately. However, next person can remove a g from:

sating

Well, I wasn't using Lexico, I was using /usr/dict/words.

[ratammer]

satis

The rules of this thread specify Lexico, to avoid argument about whose word list is best.

[chridd]

sates

(technically, you could have gotten out of gerunds with earing -> earring)

[The Snide Sniper]

slates

[ratammer]

slate

(technically, you could have gotten out of gerunds with earing -> earring)

It would have been quite hard to stay out of gerunds that way, though.

[chridd]

skate

(hence the "technically")

[phillip1882]

skated

[ratammer]

seated

[phillip1882]

heated