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Word Scramble - U.K. Cities

Beat the clock to unscramble the names of official cities of the United Kingdom. The answers change every time you play.
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
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Calum
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First submittedApril 15, 2014
Times taken64,801
Average score50.0%
Rating4.57
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Scramble
City
cchhsreeit
Chichester
dbdfraor
Bradford
nlcnilo
Lincoln
ioltbsr
Bristol
orxfdo
Oxford
tseerch
Chester
selwl
Wells
Scramble
City
mhulotpy
Plymouth
ouerrhobepgt
Peterborough
trrou
Truro
eswaans
Swansea
erntismtwse
Westminster
gilstrni
Stirling
faelbst
Belfast
Scramble
City
nsernisev
Inverness
cfidllehi
Lichfield
siabylrus
Salisbury
edrbeena
Aberdeen
wreny
Newry
efehisfdl
Sheffield
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55 Comments
nwspence
+10
Level 39
Apr 17, 2014
A very enjoyable quiz - and deceptively tricky! I didn't manage to get 'Leicester' and I have lived here for 10 years!!!
Calum
+2
Level 41
Apr 17, 2014
Glad you enjoyed it!
davemcarlson
+2
Level 54
Sep 2, 2015
One note for QM - I'd like to see Liecester accepted as an alternate spelling, just for those of us who don't live in the UK and have rarely, if ever seen the word (this is the first alternate spelling request I've made, and I've done hundreds of quizzes here)
Wilbur
+28
Level 44
Nov 7, 2016
What? How can you ask for an anagram to have an alternative spelling, you may as well ask for daciffr to be an alternative spelling for Cardiff because I'd never heard of it so rearranged the letters to make a word that I thought looked a bit like it might be a place.
Sifhraven
+7
Level 76
Dec 8, 2018
it would be like accepting Now Yerk, for New York (hey that is a funny one! never knew it was an anagram haha)
Berney
+11
Level 84
Apr 16, 2019
The whole point of this quiz is that the letters need to be arranged in the correct order with no alternative spellings.
abracadabrant
+1
Level 54
Jan 8, 2023
and donnol for london
ander217
+1
Level 74
May 24, 2014
Liked this one. Thanks.
nettybet
+1
Level 77
May 24, 2014
Couldn't get Lisburn -good quiz
Coyuznik
+9
Level 85
May 24, 2014
For "Wentpro" I kept trying "Portwen" until I remembered that place was just made up for Doc Martin. Darn you Martin Clunes for making such a memorable character/series!
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 92
Jan 9, 2023
If only he and Hugh Laurie's House, M.D. could've collided.
CaritasInVeritate
+2
Level 90
May 26, 2014
I live just outside Lisburn and it was the one that stumped me!
Quizzler14
+1
Level 66
May 29, 2014
I got London. 8-)
plattitude
+3
Level 94
Jul 8, 2014
Very enjoyable. I admit, I ran down the list of Premier league towns before I actually got to anagramming... got me a good start on the list.
gtohara
+3
Level 56
Jul 23, 2014
Why can't I convince my subconscious that Nottingham is not a fictional location?
DanielJS
+4
Level 55
Dec 21, 2020
As someone who lives in Nottingham, I can assure you that it's a real place. It is the home of twice European football champions Nottingham Forest (1978/79 and 1979/80 seasons) and 1984 Winter Olympic ice dance gold medallists Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
camus
+1
Level 80
Jan 8, 2021
Our textbooks for learning English in school was Nottingham-centered for some reason. I still remember they mentioned that Nottingham is home to the Olde Trip to Jerusalem, the oldest pub in the UK (although that's more of a marketing claim).
Galeag
+2
Level 68
Mar 24, 2021
Nottingham does not exist. It's like Bielefeld in Germany, isn't it ?
Malbaby
+1
Level 70
Jul 31, 2016
If you like anagrams and geography try my ...... Mal's 'World Capitals Anagrams'
LyRiKH
+1
Level 51
Dec 11, 2016
Nice quiz
AlejandroAP
+1
Level 87
Dec 31, 2016
Great work!
Malbaby
+1
Level 70
Apr 1, 2017
Good quiz, if you enjoyed this try my ....... Mal's 'World Capitals Anagrams' ..... and Mal's 'World Capitals Anagrams 2'
RealDad12
+1
Level 67
Apr 1, 2017
There should be more of these, and that's not because I got 80%!
tshalla
+5
Level 78
Apr 1, 2017
This quiz is featured on the same day as another one about fruit. I guess I didn't pay much attention to what I'd clicked, so I spent the first minute or so trying hard to unscramble all these fruits I'd never heard of. All while thinking that, unexpectedly, this was the toughest quiz I'd ever taken.
Sifhraven
+2
Level 76
Dec 8, 2018
haha really? That s funny :)
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Jun 3, 2024
and weirdly the quiz I have taken just now right before this one was about fruits! what are the odds!

(Edit and no, I did not try to make fruit anagrams :) )

Moosefight
+15
Level 59
Apr 3, 2017
I think the anagram for Leicester should be changed to Erectiles.
catlover2496
+1
Level 43
Apr 16, 2017
+1
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Jun 3, 2024
Select ire
boopuffyboo
+5
Level 50
Apr 29, 2018
"Drabford" from just outside of Bradford, can confirm
Moos1005
+1
Level 88
Oct 29, 2018
Even if you had used the smallest towns in the UK that nobody knows, I would have enjoyed this quiz just for the anagrams!
Sifhraven
+2
Level 76
Dec 8, 2018
comment Before taking it: I am prepared to type a lot of extra letters ;)

I always love the word worchestershiresauce, and hearing wustersos (or wooster)

AbiA
+1
Level 88
Jan 18, 2023
It’s spelt Worcestershire sauce and pronounced wuss-tuh-shuh-sorss in England (but there are variations including your suggestion).
Tomasmental
+1
Level 95
Jan 8, 2021
solved 100% and 2:08 to spare.
Ghostbuster
+3
Level 93
Jan 9, 2021
Exeter should definitely be renamed Teerex
Fuse
+3
Level 80
Jan 9, 2021
"Kingston" should not be included for Kingston upon Hull. "Kingston" generally refers to this Kingston in London. "Kingston upon Hull" is usually referred to as just Hull (like the football team).
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jan 9, 2021
Obvious mistake now fixed. Thank you.
lvtharrison
+1
Level 81
Jan 10, 2021
I struggled with two. The city I have lived in most of my life and the city that gives the county its name. Slightly troubling.
Pacobell444
+1
Level 43
Feb 10, 2021
As someone who is not from the UK, my football knowledge helped me here HAHA
Pharley
+1
Level 75
Feb 11, 2021
Official name of Stoke is Stoke-on-Trent
shape816
+1
Level 68
Feb 11, 2021
This could almost be a Massachusetts town quiz as well
Azerk
+2
Level 64
Jan 9, 2023
The joys of New England and England having the same cities
sam14yaaaaa
+1
Level 37
Feb 12, 2021
20/20 finally!!
fadeaway6193
+4
Level 69
Aug 14, 2021
Some of these look like legit Welsh town names even when mashed up
ImNotAmerican
+1
Level 38
Jan 9, 2023
Like Evrltnompoawh?
DrWhoFanJ
+1
Level 64
Jan 8, 2023
A little update needed to add the three new cities for the Platinum Jubilee, I think. (Not including the names here to not spoil it once they are added.)
Triffid
+1
Level 67
Jan 8, 2023
Needs more time. Unless you intend people to work them all out in advance and then type them in, which really makes a time limit redundant.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Jun 3, 2024
Had plenty of time imo. I got nearly all of them instantly and then had enough time to try all options for Ely (twice because I forgot which I had tried already before I did it again systematically), and several for ywrne until my subconscious told me there might be a city called newry. And I think I stared forever at nritlgsi (like a full minute? felt like it anyway)

(and I am not from the UK so have no advantage)

Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Jun 3, 2024
Edit: did it again to see how much time there is to guess. Once I did all the ones I could see immediately I had about 1:30 minute left. In this case I had missed 2 on my first check of the words. So one and a half minute to try to make sense of 2 words does not seem too bad. I did not manage to get em though this time. One was cofermhdsl and I had never heard of chelmsford nor could I make an educated guess.

Perhaps this will help. First only do the ones you see immediately, skip the others. And then I checked if there were words that have -ham or -port something other (common suffixes) hidden in them (did not think of -ford ;) ). If you don't see it then, it might atleast help you to make an educated guess.

stubart409
+1
Level 69
Jan 9, 2023
There's nothing worse than copping one in the iretecles.
rainangel
+1
Level 46
Oct 2, 2023
i got them all except salisbury, which i worked out within the last second but didn't have time to type it xd
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Jun 3, 2024
I got them all, but had never heard of ely. And nottingham and stirling were very hard to unscramble (for me, stirling may have been less hard if I was more familiar with it). Newry was also tough, not sure I have heard of it before or not.

And people that use these answers to finish the quiz, really.. what gratification do you get by just copying answers..

RobNobody
+1
Level 80
Aug 27, 2024
Dangit, kept trying to force a "mouth" into "Southampton."
TurkeyCookTime
+1
Level 85
Nov 21, 2024
I missed Armagh because I kept seeing "Graham".
noupsoup
+1
Level 56
Nov 30, 2024
yle mentioned!!!
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