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Morbius

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Infight/infighter
« on: March 02, 2022, 07:25:55 PM »
From the recent FREIGHTING game:  Infight - rare; Infighter - common.  Seems anomalous to me.  Infighter should be rare in my view.  It was the least played common word in that puzzle, not surprisingly. 

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Re: Infight/infighter
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2022, 09:39:09 PM »
I certainly didn't have either of those so I would vote for rare FWIW...

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Re: Infight/infighter
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2022, 02:51:20 PM »
I imagine both infight and infighter are back-formations from infighting. I agree they both should be rare. Infighting is common, and so is the word.
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