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wordgame: words ending with A

wordgame: words ending with A

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Can you go through the entire alphabet for words ending in a?
It can be done.

Your score is the total number of letters used.

Rules
No proper nouns
No compound scientific/medical names
(you can have phobia but not claustraphobia, hydrophobia, ..etc)

I think 200 is achievable

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Is 'area' a good start?

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Agenda, boa, coma, delta, enchilada, feta, goa, hyena, iota, jura, karma, lytta, mania, nirvana, opera, pasta, quanta, rota, salsa, tufa, ulna, vendetta, whoa, xenia, yea, zebra.

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bra
cidra
diva
era

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flea
guerrilla

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hysteria
idea

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juxta
karma
lama
media
nova
ocarina
phobia

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quota
replica
spa
tea
uvula

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vista
wanna
xenophobia .... ok?
yoga
zebra

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Originally posted by Green Paladin
Agenda, boa, coma, delta, enchilada, feta, goa, hyena, iota, jura, karma, lytta, mania, nirvana, opera, pasta, quanta, rota, salsa, tufa, ulna, vendetta, whoa, xenia, yea, zebra.
Agenda, boa, coma (or cidra, but I don't know what that is), delta, enchilada, feta, guerrilla, hysteria, iota, jura/juxta (what do these mean?), karma, lytta, mania, nirvana, ocarina, phobia, quanta, replica, salsa, tuba (what's a tufa?), uvula, vendetta, whoa/wanna (aren't these just an exclamation and a misspelling?), xenia (what's this?), yea (exclamation/slang), zebra.


That seems to be the best list so far.

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Is Nirvana a word? 😕 Sme dubious choices here.

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Originally posted by Bifrost
Is Nirvana a word? 😕 Sme dubious choices here.
All the words from my list are in Collins. None are proper nouns.

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Originally posted by Green Paladin
Agenda, boa, coma, delta, enchilada, feta, goa, hyena, iota, jura, karma, lytta, mania, nirvana, opera, pasta, quanta, rota, salsa, tufa, ulna, vendetta, whoa, xenia, yea, zebra.
I make that a score of 127

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Agenda, boa, coma (or cidra, but I don't know what that is), delta, enchilada, feta, guerrilla, hysteria, iota, jura/juxta (what do these mean?), karma, lytta, mania, nirvana, ocarina, phobia, quanta, replica, salsa, tuba (what's a tufa?), uvula, vendetta, whoa/wanna (aren't these just an exclamation and a misspelling?), xenia (what's this?), yea (exclamation/slang), zebra.


That seems to be the best list so far.
agenda 6
boa 3
coma 4
delta 5
enchilada 9
feta 4
guerrilla 9
hysteria 8
iota 4
jura/juxta 4 or 5
karma 5
lytta 5
mania 5
nirvana 7
ocarina 7
phobia 6
quanta 6
replica 7
salsa 5
tuba 4
uvula 5
vendetta 8
whoa 4
xenia 5
yea 3
zebra 5

A total of 143/144 I think

Add your improvements with notes as we go.

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addenda 7 (was agenda 6)
bourkha 6 (alternative spelling of burka) was boa 3
comma 5 (was coma 4)
delta 5
enchilada 9
fantasia 8 (was feta 4)
guerrilla 9
hysteria 8
iota 4
jura 4 or 5
karma 5
lytta 5
myopia 6 (was mania 5)
nirvana 7
ocarina 7
phobia 6
quanta 6
replica 7
salsa 5
tuba 4
uvula 5
vendetta 8
whoa 4
xenia 5
yea 3
zebra 5

Thats +10

total 153

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