47 "Secret" Letter Squares

. . . I list below a group of 47 "secret" letter squares. These are groups of words that all use the same four letters (with a few 5-letter words included). What are they good for? you may well ask. Well, if you're addicted to Boggle, which I am, then having these "letter squares" memorized gives you three, four, or even five, six or seven words for the price of one.

I can see you're still confused. Well, to be more specific, when you're playing Boggle, or any Boggle-based wordgame -- Babble, Bookworm, Scramble, Wordsplay, whatever -- and you see one of these words in a cluster on the grid, then, in most cases, you can get all the words in the group in one fell swoop. (Okay, some of these games don't accept some of these words. No matter. Don't try to remember which game will take which words; just type 'em all as fast as you can.)

Of course, in a perfect game, the four letters will appear in a perfect 2x2 square, but in many cases you can still make all the words even if the letters appear in a 1x2x1 cluster, or some other pattern. As long as they're all together.

Those of you who have played Boggle with me will be shocked that I'm revealing one of my secret strategies. Don't be. This is just one of my strategies and it's not all that secret. I have plenty other strategies that I'm not going to share. 8-)

I have arranged each group starting with the word that I tend to find the most often, followed by less common words, and then the least familiar words at the end of each group. Enjoy!

---o Seven-Word Letter Squares o---

1. lair > liar > rail > rial > lira > aril > lari

2. seat > teas > eats > east > sate > ates > etas

---o Six-Word Letter Squares o---

3. meats > teams > mates > tames > steam > metas

4. spot > stop > tops > pots > post > opts

5. steel > sleet > leets > teels > stele > teles

6. times > mites > items > emits > metis > stime

---o Five-Word Letter Squares o---

7. ales > sale > seal > lase > leas

8. peas > pase > apse > apes > spae

9. deer > dere > dree > reed > rede

10. diet > dite > tide > tied > edit

11. lone > nole > leno > noel > enol

12. hate > haet > heat > eath > thae

13. tale > teal > tael > late > tela

14. seam > same > mesa > mase > maes

15. meat > mate > team > tame > meta

16. miter > mitre > timer > remit > emir

17. pins > spin > snip > nips > psi

18. rose > roes > sore > ores > eros

19. roti > riot > tori > tiro > trio

20. rotis > riots > tiros > trios > trois

---o Four-Word Letter Squares o---

21. said > dais > aids > sadi

22. slap > laps > alps > pals

23. pass > saps > asps > spas

24. anan > nana > anna > naan

25. rats > star > arts > tsar

26. coin > cion > icon > coni

27. send > dens > ends > sned

28. door > rood > odor > ordo

29. seel > lees > eels > else

30. time > mite > item > emit

31. gore > goer > ogre > ergo

32. sink > skin > inks > kins

33. noir > iron > nori > inro

34. lion > loin > lino > noil

35. nose > noes > eons > ones

36. part > tarp > trap > prat

37. rile > lier > lire > riel

38. soil > oils > soli > silo

39. tows > stow > twos > swot

---o And a Few Fun Three-Word Letter Squares o---

40. duel > lude > leud

41. taxer > extra > retax

42. fate > feat > feta

43. huts > shut > tush

44. lane > lean > elan

45. pane > pean > neap

46. nitro > intro > niton

47. fret > reft > tref

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