Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Hallowords
by Sandy Wood - October 23, 2009 - 7:30 AM

POSSIBLE WORDS:

aeon
allow
aloe
alone
anew
elan
hale
hall
hallow
halo
heal
heel
hell
hello
hewn
hole
hone
howl
lane
lawn
lean
llano
loan
lone
newel
noel
wale
wall
wane
weal
wean
well
whale
wheal
wheel
when
whole
who’ll

NOTE: Your dictionary may have words not included on this list. If you found any of them, I’d certainly consider them correct. Congratulations!

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Comments (7)

  1. Let’s make it an even 40 (or so) words!

    You forgot:
    HALLOWEEN =P
    and WHO’LL is like 1.5 words.

    So, it looks as if you’ve got a solid 39.5 words there!

    I’m sure others will start flooding in with words from urbandictionary.com or from different languages!

    TGIF!!

    posted by J on 10-23-2009 at 8:28 am

  2. I’m sure they will, J – mine was just a good “starting list” of the more common English words. Thanks!

    posted by Sandy Wood on 10-23-2009 at 8:43 am

  3. Three others I found:

    ANOLE
    HALON
    WHOA

    posted by Lugh on 10-23-2009 at 8:57 am

  4. More common words? Llano??

    posted by Bill on 10-23-2009 at 9:23 am

  5. Well, “common” as in ones that typically appear in a “standard” dictionary as opposed to a larger one. :)

    posted by Sandy Wood on 10-23-2009 at 10:17 am

  6. Ah, fair enoguh.

    posted by Bill on 10-23-2009 at 10:44 am

  7. “Ween” for to have an opinion. Quite common in poetry, I ween.

    posted by Gollum on 10-23-2009 at 11:05 pm

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