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Name a Valid Word #2

Name any valid word that is in the Scrabble dictionary which meets each of the criteria.
Words must be in the North American Scrabble dictionary (OWL4), and also not be flagged by the Google Chrome spellchecker
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Last updated: September 24, 2019
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First submittedSeptember 21, 2019
Times taken51,328
Average score58.8%
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Criteria
Words
Ends in X, is a body part
appendix | coccyx | cortex | larynx | pharynx | thorax | others ...
Five letters, ends in FUL
awful | woful
Five letters, ends in ONY
agony | crony | ebony | irony | loony | peony | phony | stony | others ...
Five letters, ends in O, is a
musical instrument
banjo | bongo | cello | guiro | kazoo | piano | taiko
Five letters, starts and ends in H
harsh | hatch | heath | heigh | hitch | hooch | humph | hunch | hutch
Starts with B, is a tree
birch | balsa | beech | banyan | baobab | buckeye | bergamot | others ...
Five letters, ends in SON
arson | bison | boson | mason | meson
Has three or more A's, is a
type of food
asparagus | banana | baklava | cassava | lasagna |
macadamia | papaya | others ...
Seven letters, starts with PORT
portage | portals | portend | portent | porters | portico |
porting | portion | portray
Six letters, starts with EAR
earbud | earful | earned | earner | earths | earthy | earwax | earwig
Five letters, starts and ends in C
civic | codec | colic | comic | conic | cosec | cubic | cynic
Five or more letters, ends in LORD
milord | landlord | overlord | slumlord | warlord
Yiddish loan word, ends in Z
blintz | kibitz | klutz | plotz | schmutz | schnoz
Compound word with two double O's
cookbook | moonroof | foolproof | footloose |
footstool | schoolroom | others ...
Five letters, Q is the second letter
equal | equid | equip | squab | squad | squat | squid | others ...
Seven letters, ends in BIT
exhibit | gigabit | inhabit | inhibit | kilobit | megabit | rarebit | others ...
Starts with T, is a muscle
tarsal | triceps | tongue | trapezius
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Level 79
Nov 11, 2019
Could 'klutz' be accepted as a Yiddish loan word that ends in Z?
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Level 88
Nov 11, 2019
It worked for me.
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Level 79
Nov 13, 2019
Interesting - now it does work (for me)!
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Level 75
Nov 11, 2019
Schmaltz is derived from Yiddish.
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Level 69
Nov 11, 2019
Also "putz"
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Level 74
Jan 24, 2021
Agreed, please add schmaltz. I have some in my fridge and definitely am not much of a Yiddish speaker :)
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Level 74
Jan 6, 2023
*bump* for adding schmaltz and putz. In case there is any confusion, schmaltz is not the same as schmutz. You don't want to be cooking with schmutz!
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Level 74
Jan 6, 2023
came to agree also with schmaltz
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Level 68
Jan 6, 2023
Schmaltz is still not there.
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Level 79
Nov 11, 2019
portkey? lol
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Level 65
Jan 8, 2020
That was gonna be my second guess, but it allready accepted porting, eventhough I didnt really know if it was a word..
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Level 65
Nov 11, 2019
I love this quiz! Please make 100 more
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Level 66
Nov 11, 2019
Craic??
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Level 67
Nov 11, 2019
What about "dobro" for the five-letter instrument? Technically, it's a brand name, but musicians use it as a generic term for a very particular kind of guitar that is regarded and played differently than a normal electric or acoustic. It's usually set across your lap, and you pluck it like a banjo while using a slide to control the notes. The average guitar player cannot play dobro. In a band, you'd say "Jim plays drums. Kerry plays guitar. Amy plays dobro." Not sure what the requirements of this quiz are, but as a seasoned musician, I'd say "dobro" definitely qualifies.
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Level 62
Jan 6, 2023
It’s not a valid Scrabble word, though, and you covered the reason why.
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Level 77
Jan 8, 2023
I don’t know how this instrument sounds… but I think a Croatian dobro is good! … … :D
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Level 66
Nov 11, 2019
Arrabiatta for a type of food
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Level 70
Nov 11, 2019
terabit is not accepted
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Level 65
Jan 9, 2023
Tried that one, didn't work. Figured out it didn't accept bit multiples and moved on... turns out it didn't accept just this one.
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Level 47
Nov 11, 2019
apendix for the first one.
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Level 47
Nov 11, 2019
nevermind it's 2 p's
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Level 65
Nov 11, 2019
May I recommend that "shvitz" be accepted? Once I had that one in my head, all the other ones flew away.
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Level 65
May 15, 2023
I tried schvitz too. Just looked and it appears to be in the Scrabble dictionary.
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Level 43
Nov 11, 2019
Oh for the love, I thought it said "Six letters and ENDS in EAR" so I spent a whole minute wondering why linear wouldn't work. 😶
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Level 59
Nov 12, 2019
Is it a problem that my mind went to awful, agony, harsh and arson almost immediately? for numbers 2, 3, 5, and 7?
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Level 65
Jan 8, 2020
I had awful, agony, hatch and bison I believe.
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Level 84
Nov 12, 2019
I was hoping pooper-scooper would have made it. D'oh!
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Level 42
Nov 12, 2019
"Yiddish loan word, ends in Z" is badly phrased; I thought it meant a Yiddish word meaning loan.
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Level 76
Jan 6, 2023
"Loan word" is a commonly-used term for a word borrowed from another language.
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Level 47
Nov 13, 2019
I'm learning head & neck anatomy so I automatically went for tensor veli palatini but couldn't think of trapezius lol
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Level 50
Jan 26, 2024
I went for tensor fasciae latae
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Level 58
Nov 13, 2019
'Amaranth' is a type of food with three 'a's.
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Level 22
Nov 18, 2019
blackwood is a type of tree
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Level 65
Jan 8, 2020
Wow, Im one of the 2,8% that got them all and english isnt even my language!

wasted quite a bit of time on the tree. I read started and ends with b so tried baobab, which it didnt accept, retyped it 4 times then changed the spelling eventhough I was pretty sure I typed it correctly. Then reread the question and saw it only had to begin with a b so gave an easier answer (beech or birch) was surprised to see baobab actually show up in the list! I guess I did spell it wrong initially. And with alternate spelling spelled it wrong again? But thinking I did the opposite of what I did initially, so thought if the first time wasnt right this way should.. (oa-ao) . Could have had more than a minute left otherwise, now 40 sec

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Level 28
Jan 11, 2020
Halibut for 7 Letter words ending in BIT.
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Level 76
May 4, 2020
Read what you just wrote, but slowly.
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Level 43
May 4, 2020
If you're American I know exactly who you're voting for in 6 months.
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Level 59
Feb 16, 2020
I managed to forget about bananas in the food with 3+ vowels question while eating a banana.
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Level 74
Mar 18, 2020
Voodoo?
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Level 76
May 4, 2020
Not a compound word.
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Level 30
Apr 6, 2020
Just a tiny thing, but the five letter second letter Q has the word others spelled wrong. Good quiz!
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Level 46
Apr 27, 2020
Is it bad that the first -son word I thought of was arson?
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Level 43
May 4, 2020
Why not kibbutz?
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Level 71
May 4, 2020
Would 'hawkbit' (a type of dandelion) be valid for the 'seven letter word ending in "bit"' question? Tried it but it wasn't accepted. Likewise 'bay' for the trees beginning with B.
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Level 35
May 5, 2020
This is an English language quiz. Why is there a Hebrew/Jewish word in there that unless you are Jewish/Israeli or North American it is highly unlikely that you will know those words.
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Level 63
Jan 6, 2023
I don't think it's that unreasonable? Have you never heard the word Klutz before?
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Level 45
Mar 15, 2024
They are loan words from Yiddish into English. Those are recognized English words now.
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Level 51
Jun 10, 2020
Great quiz. Please add the temporalis muscle of the head
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Level 75
Aug 3, 2020
Masala for food with at least three 'a's?

Also, if you don't mind my asking, how do you build these lists? I've been playing with making some sort of similar quizzes, but I can't find a good way to search the Scrabble dictionary.

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Level 53
Aug 25, 2020
Please add bloodwood
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Level 42
Sep 17, 2020
accept bayobab
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Level 47
Sep 28, 2020
shoebox for the compound word
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Level 43
Mar 6, 2021
That has 0 of the required 2 double o's. A double o means 2 o's in a row.
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Level 76
Jan 6, 2023
Shooeboox, then.
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Level 66
Sep 28, 2020
Taramasalata for a type of food
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Level 58
Oct 2, 2020
Taramasalata!
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Level 41
Feb 24, 2021
For some reason my brain was just saying

“Portkey, put portkey”

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Level 43
Mar 6, 2021
3 seconds to spare!
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Level 61
Mar 17, 2021
Is 'Lordship' not a word?
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Level 58
May 11, 2021
I tried POOPOO for the double O's question because that's how my seventh grade level mind works.
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Level 46
May 20, 2021
avacado?
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Level 58
Jun 3, 2021
It's A-V-O-C-A-D-O. 2 a's.
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Level 65
Aug 12, 2021
Bookroom didn't work for the double o's
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Level 82
May 8, 2022
Nor did bootroom. Not a scrabble word for some reason.
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Level 76
Sep 20, 2021
Spritz for a Yiddish loan word ending in Z?
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Level 82
Jun 12, 2022
is there any reason why singular tricep doesn't work for the last one?
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Level 76
Jan 6, 2023
Because the muscle is called the triceps. It's both singular and plural.
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Level 81
Aug 16, 2022
boxelder for tree?
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Level 56
Sep 27, 2022
earing is missing from the list !
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Level 71
Jan 6, 2023
If you are thinking of the jewelry.... That's earring (7 letters)
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Level 65
Oct 6, 2022
I feel like trapdoor is a compound word with two o's
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Level 76
Jan 6, 2023
It's looking for a compound word with two sets of double o's, like cookbook.
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Level 28
Nov 12, 2022
Moonlight should work for the compound word

Marmalade for the food with at least 3 a's

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Level 76
Jan 6, 2023
Moonlight only has one double o, not two.
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Level 64
Nov 13, 2022
Avacado has three A’s
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Level 60
Jan 6, 2023
avocado*, there are two A's
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Level 76
Dec 30, 2022
Fun quiz. What about "putz" and "kibbutz?"
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Level 62
Jan 6, 2023
So apparently triceps only come in pairs these days...can you accept just 'tricep' please?
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Level 76
Jan 6, 2023
The muscle is called the triceps, both singular and plural.
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Level 91
Jan 6, 2023
Gaylord, as in the container? I know it derives from a proper name, but its use is now generic like Xerox.
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Level 72
Jan 6, 2023
Food with 3 A's? Amaranth?
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Level 66
Jan 6, 2023
Should I admit that I interpreted "Yiddish loan word" as "Yiddish word pertaining to money lending" and not as "word borrowed from Yiddish"?
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Level 60
Jan 6, 2023
Doesn't "hosho" fit for the musical instrument clue?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosho_(instrument)

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Level 55
Jan 6, 2023
"woful" isn't how you spell "woeful" btw
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Level 64
Jan 7, 2023
Maybe moonpool should be included?
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Level 65
Jan 7, 2023
The only food I could think of with at least three a's was calabash and it didn't count. Could it be added?
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Level 65
Jan 8, 2023
Piccolo is another musical instrument that should be added.
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Level 46
Jan 8, 2023
Maybe include empanada for the food types?
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Level 70
Jan 8, 2023
Shouldn't tricep be accepted for muscle that starts with a T?
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Level ∞
Jan 8, 2023
It's not accurate but we'll accept it.
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Level 46
Jan 9, 2023
craic is a 5 letter word that starts and ends with c
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Level 32
Jan 10, 2023
tibialis muscle?
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Level 28
Jan 21, 2023
what about avacado :( I couldn't think of anything else so I was stuck on it lol
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Level 86
Jun 28, 2023
Lol I tried this as well. Found out afterwards the correct spelling is "avOcado"
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Level 68
Feb 18, 2023
Kibbitz? Am I the only one who spells this with a double b?
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Level 47
Apr 21, 2023
For the one with Q as the second letter, the list says "ohers", instead of "others". Doesn't affect quiz play, but it would look better spelled correctly.
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Level 53
May 30, 2023
I tried "footlooker" for two double O's.
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Level 60
Jun 6, 2023
Empanadas have three a's
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Level 79
Jun 24, 2023
Microorganism should work
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Level 59
Dec 9, 2023
whats with airport?