Start with vowels and work around them. Find rhyming patterns - for example if you can connect eat, you might find neighboring letters that can fit, such as meat, feat, beat, etc. Plurals count, so look for S's! Gerunds (verbs ending in -ing) and different tenses of verbs also count. Some words are very short - most of your score will come from two or three letter words. If you can't seem to find words you know, look for a combination of three letters that can be pronounced and try it because it might be a word or abbreviation - there's lots of words that aren't commonly used and I've learned some new words from WordPlay.