Words of Power: Target Words and Minimum Level : Is 'flame jet burst' a wordspell?

[Duncan Forsyth]

Is 'flame jet burst' a wordspell?

A wordspell containing 'burst' has a minimum level of 1. 'Flame jet' is a level 0 word.

Up to today, I have understood those rules to mean, "'flame jet burst' is a level 1 wordspell", but a friend's reading of the same rules is that 'flame jet burst' is not a wordspell.

Can anyone settle this one, or throw some light on it?

Link to the relevant but ambiguous rules for target words: http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateMagic/wordsOfPower/targetWords.h tml

[Serisan]

Burst flame jet is a viable level 1 wordspell. The target words merely indicate the minimum level slot allowed.

Ultimate Magic wrote:

Level: This line lists the minimum level for a wordspell containing this target word.

As such, there's nothing stopping you from using Flame Jet other than it being a suboptimal choice for a level 1 slot.

[Kazaan]

Basically, you use the highest of either the level of the target word or the effective level of the effect words combined. To illustrate:

Barrier is level 3. Two level 0 effect words in the same word spell is level 2. The level of this spell is 3. By contrast, Burst is level 1. Burst with two level 0 effect words is level 2.