Saturday, September 10, 2005

4x4 Words

I sometimes amuse myself with pastimes like this. Can you think of any other 4x4 words? Keep your eyes open, and post them (the words, not your eyes, you fool).

abet/bate/beat/beta
acts/cast/cats/scat
ales/leas/sale/seal
alps/laps/pals/slap
amen/mane/mean/name
ares/arse/ears/eras/sear/sera (looted from Gaby 'n Fish)
arts/rats/star/tars
asps/pass/saps/spas*
bast/bats/stab/tabs
bust/buts/stub/tubs
dale/deal/lade/lead
deli/diel/idle/lied
east/eats/sate/seat/teas
eels/else/lees/seel (pillaged from Gaby 'n Fish) * # †
emit/item/mite/time
ents/nest/nets/sent/tens
eons/nose/ones/sone
eros/ores/roes/rose/sore
evil/live/veil/vile
gnus/guns/snug/sung
hips/phis/pish/ship
hits/sith/$&@%/this (נגנב מיש לנו הרבה בקוונים
inks/kins/sink/skin
lair/lari/liar/lira/rail (lifted from DoughBoy)
last/lats/salt/slat
leap/pale/peal/plea
list/lits/silt/slit
mate/meat/tame/team
naps/pans/snap/span
nips/pins/snip/spin
opts/post/pots/spot/stop/tops
owns/snow/sown/wons
pare/pear/rape/reap
pars/raps/rasp/spar
part/prat/rapt/tarp/trap (thieved from DoughBoy)
past/pats/spat/taps
rues/ruse/suer/sure/user

* Extra marks for repeated letter.
# Besides, who knew that "seel" was a word (The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Second Edition: "to stitch closed the eyes of, as a falcon during training")?
† Jesus is Lord!

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