A good tile to get, on a par with the M. In fact, M and P go particularly well together (except perhaps in politics), like in words containing IMP and EMP: BLIMP, WIMP, HEMP, TEMPT, etc. Two-letter words with the P are:
PA father
PE a Hebrew letter
PI a Greek letter
PO a chamberpot
OP an operation
UP
Handy threes include PIX (a receptacle used in a church service), PYX (same as PIX), PAX (a sign of peace) and the less wholesome POX. There are also POZ (positive) and ZEP (a large sandwich).
PRE- is a handy prefix, especially as a PRE- word is often a hook for a RE- word. You can have:
On a side note, there’s a wonderful Indian English word PREPONE, to bring forward in time. They figured that if you could postpone a meeting, then you ought to be able to prepone one too.
By Barry Grossman
Barry is a leading UK Scrabble player and winner of several tournaments. He is the author of Scrabble for Beginners (Chambers), Need to Know Scrabble, Scrabble – Play to Win and The Little Book of Scrabble Trickster. He has also contributed to numerous other books on the subject of words and word-games, has been a series champion of Channel 4’s Countdown, and has written four comedy series for BBC Radio 4. He lives in Hertford.
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