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Chapter 2
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Typing and words
Tap tiles, type their letters or drag them into the submit bar. A word must be in the dictionary and at least as long as the difficulty asks (see Modes and difficulties).
Dictionaries
- English accepts British and American spellings (colour and color).
- Hungarian uses its own dictionary, with inflected forms (házban, kenyeret). CS, GY, LY, NY, SZ, TY and ZS are single tiles and count as one letter; accented vowels count as vowels.
- A word that isn't real costs nothing. If a real word is at most two typos away and the board can spell it, the game asks "Did you mean…?".
Which tile a letter picks
- Typing a letter takes the most valuable matching tile: special tiles first, then the most points.
- Multi-letter tiles (like -ING or SZ) win when you type their letters. Each of their letters counts toward the word's length and letter bonus.
- An Initial is picked only as the first letter, a Dot only as the last.
- A Joker can be any single letter and scores 0 points.
Building the word
- Removing a letter from the front or the middle leaves a gap; only a word without gaps can be submitted. Hold or right-click an empty spot to close the gaps.
- Hold or right-click a tile to put it at the front of the word.
- Drag a tile onto any spot of the word, onto an upgrade to use it on that tile, or back to the board.
- Refresh (hold it) swaps the whole board for new tiles and uses a refresh. Shuffle is free; hold it to sort A to Z, again for vowels first.
Keyboard
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| Letters | Add a tile; Shift puts it at the front |
| Enter | Submit |
| Backspace, Delete | Remove the last or the first letter |
| Esc | Clear the word |
| Hold 1 | Refresh |
| 2, hold 2 | Shuffle, sort |
| 3 | Bring back the best word you typed |
Every shortcut except the letters can be changed in Settings.
Free prefixes and suffixes
Some modifiers let a word start or end with an extra prefix or suffix on top of a real word (RE-, -ING…). The game strips it once, so the rest must be a real word.