It’s not uncommon to see words of nine letters or more in an elite game. Mr. Anderson described elite Scrabble strategy as a mix between chess and poker.

Claim: The English language has at least one nine-letter word that remains a valid word as each of its letters is successively removed. There is a common English word that is nine letters long ...

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