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Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 7:55 pm
by Graeme Cole
Mine:

TOTALISE / TOTALISES / TOTALISED
DINOSAUR
LIAISON
FEDORA - I'm wearing one in my apterous picture. According to superstats, the plural is my most missed word ever.

Yours?

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:50 pm
by Thomas Carey
Mine says in tiedfirst there is ORIENTAL/RELATION , AUDITOR , TADPOLE and TAONGA. These were all from ages ago when I was rubbish. Wouldn't miss any of 'em now (except maybe TAONGA)

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:08 pm
by Jennifer Steadman
Any word ending in -TION, which is probably why I'm rubbish.

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:32 pm
by Ryan Taylor
AUDITOR and quite recently I've been missing SCENARIO a lot.

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 2:48 am
by Steve Balog
On the top of my list is ANODISE[S/D/R], AVERSION, NOTARI[ES/SE}, and TRIAGE[S/D] for words I know the meanings of that come up a lot. Also GIRASOLE/SERAGLIO as a set of letters I see a lot that I haven't gotten.

Yea the frequency that I miss "apto-spots" is a bit ridiculous.

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 4:18 am
by Andy Wilson

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:34 pm
by Ian Volante
Andy Wilson wrote:ASTEROID
This. Got three more misses than you too.

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:10 pm
by Mark Deeks
TANDOORI. How is anyone supposed to get a word that ends in an I?

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:31 pm
by Charlie Reams
Mark Deeks wrote:TANDOORI. How is anyone supposed to get a word that ends in an I?
I remember it as DORATION*.

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:44 pm
by Graeme Cole
Charlie Reams wrote:
Mark Deeks wrote:TANDOORI. How is anyone supposed to get a word that ends in an I?
I remember it as DORATION*.
I could never spot AUDITOR until I connected it with OUTRAID^. Same with LONGATE^ for TANGELO.

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:18 pm
by Charlie Reams
Graeme Cole wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:
Mark Deeks wrote:TANDOORI. How is anyone supposed to get a word that ends in an I?
I remember it as DORATION*.
I could never spot AUDITOR until I connected it with OUTRAID^. Same with LONGATE^ for TANGELO.
Yep. This topic used to get discussed a lot more in the past so I'm probably repeating myself, but I found these false-a-grams to be very useful scaffolding. After a while of using ROADIEST^ to get ASTEROID, you find you can remove the scaffolding and go straight to ASTEROID, but the false words makes it a lot easier to get to that point. And if it's a common phony like MOANIEST^ then so much the better.

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:43 am
by Mark Deeks
Good ploy.

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 4:21 pm
by Thomas Carey
ROADINESS works aswell (for ANODISERS)

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:04 pm
by LaurenHamer
NOTARISE(S)(D) and ROUTINES.

Every. Chuffing. Time.

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 8:06 pm
by Mark Deeks
Oh hell yeah. And DINOSAUR. And DILATOR.

Re: Common or high probability words you still always miss

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:58 am
by Peter Mabey
BARONET