When we consider the 2000 most commonly played bingos in Scrabble under the OWL2 word list, we find that the SECOND most common ending letters for these bingos are the letters -TED. In another article we describe why this is important.
To become a better Scrabble player, you need to increase the number of bingo words that you are capable of playing. An efficient way to do this is to first learn the most commonly played bingos with the most commonly used endings.
The most commonly played bingos that end in -TED are:
1. equated
2. aviated
3. ozonated
4. opiated
5. oriented
6. invited
7. zonated
8. jointed
9. arointed
10. bigoted
11. enrooted
12. awaited
13. quieted
14. quoited
15. nonrated
16. ingoted
17. unquoted
18. intuited
19. intorted
20. aerated
21. ruinated
22. foveated
23. togated
24. rerouted
25. quanted
26. foliated
27. fagoted
28. toileted
29. notated
30. violated
31. obviated
32. iodated
33. tainted
34. requited
35. pivoted
36. glouted
37. anointed
38. agitated
39. vitiated
40. donated
41. aurated
42. outvoted
43. grouted
44. garoted
45. ideated
46. faceted
47. devoted
48. unrooted
49. liquated
50. gavotted
As usual, the list is in playrank order starting with the most often played word EQUATED. Also, this list only applies to games played under the OWL2 word list.
Notice the prevalence of vowels in the bingos, making these words an excellent way to dump vowels.
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