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making words out of a long word

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grandtanteJE65 Mon 06-Apr-20 15:58:58

How many words can you make out of caterpillar?
You can have the letters a, r and l twice in one word. The other letters that only occur once in caterpillar, can only be used once in a word.

For example:
pill
rare
cat
ate

AGAA4 Mon 06-Apr-20 16:05:09

cat
cater
real
car
trill
lip
part

lots more but will do for now

threexnanny Mon 06-Apr-20 16:20:27

tap
cat
rat
cater
liar
till
car
tar
par
ape
pear
ear
tear
are

probably more

Bathsheba Mon 06-Apr-20 16:46:56

Far too many 3 and 4 letter words, so I'll just post 5 and above:

Plait
Plate
Place
Trail
Trial
Crate
React
Palate
Palace
Particle
Article
Trace
Triple
Replica
Capital
Caliper
Erratic

Could probably think of more, but that'll do for now smile

CherryCezzy Mon 06-Apr-20 18:02:20

To start with:
Altar
Alter
Alert
Clear
Ictal
Pillar

CherryCezzy Mon 06-Apr-20 18:08:25

Carer
Later
Pleat
Trill

CherryCezzy Mon 06-Apr-20 18:17:43

Crept
Irate
Riper

CherryCezzy Mon 06-Apr-20 18:46:45

Cellar
Carpet
Recall

Bathsheba Tue 07-Apr-20 09:37:35

A few more:

Racial
Recital
Carpet
Relic
Price
Lateral
Arterial
Trailer
Retrial
Paella

CherryCezzy Tue 07-Apr-20 10:13:44

Realt (usually allowed in games ?)
Relit
Patella
Aerial
Arterial
Placate
Parietal
Patellar

silverlining48 Tue 07-Apr-20 11:14:31

Wow that’s astonishing! Whoever would have thought so many would come from so few, ie just one ordinary little word.
Have stolen the idea for my Gc. Thanks.

grandtanteJE65 Wed 08-Apr-20 14:27:49

I had a class of schoolchildren who managed to make 80 words out of caterpillar.

Some of you have found words they didn't, thanks.

Practically any long word can be used to play this game.

Bathsheba Wed 08-Apr-20 14:35:06

It's one of the oldest word games in the book. Personally I like to play it using shorter words - long words just result in endless lists of words, pages and pages of them, especially if 3 letters are permitted. I prefer a bit of a challenge wink

CherryCezzy Wed 08-Apr-20 14:54:55

A good one for schoolchildren is the old name for Istanbul - Constantinople.

Dawn22 Tue 14-Apr-20 13:44:09

Anyone want to start another long word. Any suggestions. Over to you.