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29 You Can Put an E After That?

A more unexpected use of the E is that it goes after a lot of other words to form new words, or, in Scrabble jargon, it is a versatile ‘hook’ (because it hooks onto the word). The large number of these E hooks means you might be able to fit in a seven-letter word or other good play that might otherwise have had to go unplayed. Here are a few E end-hooks:

HEM becomes HEME

HET becomes HETE

TIG becomes TIGE

FORM becomes FORME

LENS becomes LENSE

LOWS becomes LOWSE

RARE becomes RAREE

COMIC becomes COMICE

CARPAL becomes CARPALE

PENSION becomes PENSIONE

Many of these words are just old or variant versions of the word without the E (as in ‘Ye Merrie Olde’). A TIGE is the trunk of an architectural column, a RAREE show was a carnival, and you might know the COMICE is a pear and a PENSIONE is a small Italian hotel.