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Alphabetical OrderEntire Wordletters in alphabetical order [4-114,6-41,172,238,13-187]
a. longest [3-176,35-206]
common words: abhors, almost, begins, bijoux, biopsy, chimps, chinos, chintz (6-t)
uncommon word: aegilops (8)
b. longest with possible repeat [3-176,35-206]
common word: billowy (7)
uncommon word: aegilops (8)
c. all possible orders [11-246]
d. consonants in alphabetical order (vowels ignored), longest [35-105,36-287]
common word: baccalaureate (13)
common word: defrost
common word: bedpost
e. alphomic phrase (letters in alphabetical order split into a phrase) [32-229]
e.g. A BELL (label)
e.g. A CENT (enact)
e.g. I'M NOT (Minto)
f. cyclic alphabetical order (letters in order on a circular alphabet within one revolution), longest [13-187]
uncommon word: begorra
common word: subfloor
g. dialphabetical word (letters split into two interleaved subsequences each in alphabetical order), longest [12-236]
common word: fEMiNiNity (EMNN and fiiity)
h. alphabetical-word text (sentence in which every word has its letters in alphabetical order) [46-9]
e.g. I am Guy Dilnott IV: my boy is Guy Dilnott V
letters in reverse alphabetical order
a. longest [11-246,23-214,35-206]
common words: sponged, wronged (7-t)
b. longest with possible repeat [35-206]
common words: sniffed, spiffed, sponged, spoofed, spooked, spooled, spooned, trolled, wronged (7-t)
uncommon word: spoonfeed (9)
lipogram (word missing certain letters)
a. spelled with letters from first half of alphabet, longest [1-35,5-26,226,36-48]
common words: blackballed, blackmailed (11-t)
uncommon words: hamamelidaceae, hididdlediddle (14-t)
hyphenated word: heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh (18)
b. spelled with letters from last half of alphabet, longest [5-226,12-91,23-214,36-48]
common word: torturous (9)
uncommon word: tootsywootsy (12)
phrase: to usurp on or upon (15)
hyphenated phrase: porto Novo or Porto-Novo (20)
c. spelled with hexadecimal letters, longest
common words: acceded, defaced, effaced (7-t)
uncommon words: bedeaffed, decafaced (9-t)
hyphenated word: face-bedded (10)
d. spelled with first n letters, longest
see list Word Spelled with First N Letters for Each N
i. shortest word containing all of the first n letters of the alphabet [7-187]
e.g. A, AB/BA, ABC/CAB, CABDA, BACKED/BRACED, FEEDBACK/BOLDFACE
e. without AB, longest
common word: psychoneuroimmunology (21)
uncommon words: hydroxydesoxycorticosterones, counterimmunoelectrophoresis, hydroxydehydrocorticosterone (28-t)
phrases: clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin, compound formerly compounded interest, not to know whether one is
coming or going, spot test for infectious mononucleosis, ... and 3 others (34-t)
f. without ABCD, longest
common words: hypersensitivities, neurophysiologists, presumptuousnesses (18-t)
uncommon words: ureteropyelonephrostomies, ureterotrigonoenterostomy (25-t)
phrases: to lift, throw, or turn up the little finger, to tell someone where he gets or to get off (34-t)
g. without A to H, longest
common words: intuitionists, nutritionists, postpositions (13-t)
uncommon words: nonintrusionisms, nonintrusionists, supposititiously (16-t)
phrase: inositol myoinositol (19)
hyphenated phrase: porto Novo or Porto-Novo (20)
h. without A to K, longest
common words: monotonously, synonymously (12-t)
uncommon words: nonsynonymously, nontumultuously (15-t)
phrase: tumour, tumor symptom (18)
hyphenated phrase: porto Novo or Porto-Novo (20)
i. without A to N, longest
common word: torturous (9)
uncommon word: tootsywootsy (12)
j. without A to Q, longest
common words: struts, trusty, trysts (6-t)
uncommon words: susurrus, ruurruur, tuuttuut (8-t)
hyphenated word: tut-tut-tut (9)
k. without A to S, longest
common words: t, u, v, w, x, y, z (1-t)
uncommon word: tuuttuut (8)
hyphenated word: tut-tut-tut (9)
l. spelled with every nth letter in alphabet, longest [25-56,82,36-54,143]
see list Word Spelled with Every Nth Letter in Alphabet for Each N
m. lipogrammatic text (passage avoiding given letters), incl. lipogrammatic windows in published text
[2-138,10-131,31-49,122,123,218,220,32-294,39-212,42-21,43-299,44-4,47-141,TJ1-56,TJ1-60,TJ1-62,TJ3-69,TJ11-45,
WW52.4-52]
e.g. Gadsby (1939), Ernest Vincent Wright's novel written without the letter E
i. complementary-alphabet dialogue (two speakers whose letter sets are disjoint and together use the whole
alphabet) [11-14]
e.g. Sebbie uses only BEHILOSZ (upside-down calculator letters), Amanda the other 18
n. alphabet-partition word (longest word drawn from one half of a given split of the alphabet) [12-234]
e.g. split A-M / N-Z: longest pure words Hamamelidaceae (A-M) and nonsupports (N-Z)
letter-shift pair (shift letters to new letters in the alphabet to form another word)
e.g., HAL => IBM: H + 1 => I, A + 1 => B, L + 1 => M
a. rot-13 pair (shift letters by half the alphabet to form another word)
i. longest
common words: freire & server (6)
uncommon words: chechen & purpura (7-t)
uncommon words: abjurer & nowhere (7-t)
uncommon words: chechen & purpura (7-t)
uncommon words: annanna & naanaan (7-t)
uncommon words: arabara & nenonen (7-t)
uncommon words: fursher & shefure (7-t)
phrases: abba abba & noonnoon (8)
ii. longest reversed
common words: ravine & ravine (6-t)
common words: rebore & rebore (6-t)
uncommon words: antergan & antergan (8-t)
uncommon words: tavering & tavering (8-t)
b. fixed offset shift pair (shift letters by a fixed offset to form another word)
[L139,2-24,11-188,12-243,13-27,15-48,21-119,23-59,109,26-154]
i. longest
common words: primero & sulphur [shift of 3] (7)
uncommon words: corocoro & wiliwili [shift of 20] (8-t)
uncommon words: cananean & gererier [shift of 4] (8-t)
uncommon words: noonnoon & tuuttuut [shift of 6] (8-t)
ii. longest reversed
common words: hidden & jazzed [shift of 22] (6-t)
common words: bonnet & judder [shift of 10] (6-t)
common words: hitter & napped [shift of 22] (6-t)
common words: bantry & pikers [shift of 9] (6-t)
common words: ravine & ravine [shift of 13] (6-t)
common words: rebore & rebore [shift of 13] (6-t)
common words: lethal & shoals [shift of 19] (6-t)
common words: bigwig & suisun [shift of 14] (6-t)
uncommon words: antergan & antergan [shift of 13] (8-t)
uncommon words: tavering & tavering [shift of 13] (8-t)
uncommon words: noonnoon & tuuttuut [shift of 6] (8-t)
phrases: red alder & redlander [shift of 0] (9-t)
phrases: red alert & trelander [shift of 0] (9-t)
phrases: margin up & punnigram [shift of 0] (9-t)
iii. longest multiple
common words: cheer => diffs => jolly [shifts of 1, 7] (5)
uncommon words: annanna => booboob => naanaan [shifts of 1, 13] (7)
iv. most multiple
common words: god => owl => sap => wet [shifts of 8, 12, 16] (3)
uncommon words: ala => dod => epe => grg => hsh => iti => juj => lwl => nyn => ozo => pap => sds => tet =>
ufu => whw => xix [shifts of 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23] (15)
phrases: bk. => e e => -ene => aja => dmd => ene => fof => iri => lul => nwn => oxo => pyp => rar => sbs =>
udu => vev => yhy => ziz [shifts of 3, 3, 25, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24]
(17)
c. changing offset shift pair (shift letters by a changing offset to form another word), longest [12-50,36-10]
e.g., EMU => FOX: E + 1 => F, M + 2 => O, U + 3 => X
common words: benito & egoism [shift of 23] (6-t)
common words: fracas & oblong [shift of 9] (6-t)
common words: magnus & showed [shift of 6] (6-t)
common words: rostra & sorrow [shift of 25] (6-t)
common words: talcum & uakari [shift of 25] (6-t)
uncommon words: kahikateas & nemoricole [shift of 3] (10)
d. multiplicative offset shift pair (shift letters by a multiplicative factor through alphabet to form another word),
longest [15-48]
e.g., ONE => WRY: O * 5 => W, N * 5 => R, E * 5 => Y
common words: humani & namers [factor of 5] (6-t)
common words: belsen & pariah [factor of 21] (6-t)
common words: nevins & ponape [factor of 3] (6-t)
common words: bonobo & revere [factor of 9] (6-t)
uncommon words: avivaviva & orerorero [factor of 15] (9-t)
uncommon words: nifinifin & paraparap [factor of 3] (9-t)
phrases: hannah hannah & nerren nerren [factor of 5] (12)
e. shiftgram pair (shift letters through alphabet and transpose to form another word), longest
[M179,2-25,12-218,13-22,88,182,29-35,35-309,36-21,177,250]
common words: deflectors & distraught [shift of 11] (10-t)
common words: nonnuclear & reflective [shift of 17] (10-t)
common words: preserving & refractive [shift of 13] (10-t)
common words: spaghettis & stepladder [shift of 15] (10-t)
common words: forbidding & twinklings [shift of 5] (10-t)
uncommon words: overbearinger & reverberation [shift of 13] (13)
f. atbash pair (reflect letters across center of alphabet) [37-50]
e.g., ARK => ZIP: A => Z, R => I, K => P
i. longest
common words: grogs & tilth (5)
uncommon words: lullul & ofoofo (6-t)
uncommon words: lillil & orooro (6-t)
uncommon words: iviivi & rerrer (6-t)
uncommon words: iliili & rorror (6-t)
uncommon words: ifiifi & rurrur (6-t)
phrases: horny frog & slim-built (9)
ii. longest reversed
common words: boorish & shrilly (7)
hyphenated words: klop-klop & klop-klop (8)
iii. atbash shift pair (atbash reflection combined with a shift), longest [37-50]
e.g. PEWTERER (9) TEMPERER; DUENDE (6) ENDUED
iv. complementary bigram word (letter pairs whose values sum to 27: AZ, BY ... MN) [34-286,35-70]
common word: evolve
e.g. loverish
g. collinear word set (three or more words in arithmetic letter-shift progression) [17-233,20-241,24-114,25-142,44-67]
e.g. GYP, HUM, KID, LEA: letters in arithmetic progression (+1, -4, -3)
i. halfway words (three words in which every letter of the middle word lies alphabetically midway between the
corresponding letters of the other two) [25-13]
e.g. AGE-JIG-SKI
e.g. NAVY-TERN-ZINC
h. vowel-consonant shift pair (vowels shifted within AEIOU, consonants within the consonants) [40-151,47-276]
e.g. BIN => COP (+1); HIS => JOT (+1)
i. partial letter shift (some letters of a word shifted by one common amount to spell another word), incl. shift triangles
[27-54]
e.g. DAY to LIGht (shift 8); TO to NIght (shift 20)
j. self-referential number-name shift (number name letter-shifted into an expression of the same number or of itself)
[47-85]
e.g. THREE +4 = XLVII, read (X/L)(V)+I+I = III; TEN +10 = DOX ('do X')
roller-coaster (word with letters that alternate between going forward and backward in alphabet), longest [13-79,22-175,239,34-224]
common words: decriminalization, parameterizations (17-t)
uncommon words: decontextualizations, decontextualisations, multilateralizations (20-t)
phrase: limiting membrane of retina (24)
letter sums (add together positions of letters in alphabet)
a. highest, for each length [5-226,7-117,12-216,28-253,31-202,36-195,37-209,284,38-67]
see list Word with Highest Letter Sum for Each Length
b. lowest, for each length [5-226,7-117,12-216,28-253,31-202,36-195,37-209,284,38-67]
see list Word with Lowest Letter Sum for Each Length
c. words with same letter sum, longest well-mixed [M184, 13-25,15-18]
common words: authoritativenesses & dichlorodifluoromethane (23)
uncommon words: presuppositionlessnesses & dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (31)
hyphenated words: hystero-salpingo-oophorectomies & supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34)
phrases: continuing, continuous, uninterrupted revolution & angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia
(51-t)
phrases: chondropharyngeal part of middle pharyngeal constricto & familial hyperbetalipoproteinemia and
hyperprebetalipo (51-t)
phrases: australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation & hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase
deficie (51-t)
phrases: hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase deficie & international Telecommunications Satellite
Organisatio (51-t)
phrases: rami communicantes nervi auriculotemporalis cum nervo & familial hyperchylomicronemia with
hyperprebetalipopro (51-t)
d. word with unique letter sum, shortest
common words: a (1-t)
common words: b (1-t)
common words: c (1-t)
common words: h (1-t)
uncommon words: presuppositionlessness (22)
hyphenated words: laparohystero-oophorectomy (25)
phrases: to put or set the or one's best foot first, foremost o (41-t)
phrases: to turn or twist a person round one's little finger (41-t)
hyphenated phrases: fluorescent treponemal antibody-absorption test (43)
e. balanced letter sum (average position of letters in alphabet equal to 13.5), longest [M186,27-206,30-204,32-204]
common word: vaingloriousnesses (18)
uncommon word: costotransversectomies (22)
phrases: quos deus vult perdere prius dementat, sulcus interventricularis anterior, summons ad warrantizandum, to
warrant, superior mesenteric artery syndrome (32-t)
hyphenated phrase: twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (34)
i. alphabet ruler word (average letter value at a given fraction of the alphabet) [33-119]
common word: wizard (letter sum 81 / 6 letters = 13.5, the midpoint of the alphabet)
f. letter sum divisible by each letter, longest
e.g., CAB = C(3) + A(1) + B(2) = 6, which can be divided by 1, 2 and 3
common word: barbaric (8)
uncommon word: territorialler (14)
i. divisible word (value of the nth letter divisible by n) [35-136]
common word: ADOPT (A=1, D=4, O=15, P=16, T=20 divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
g. letter sum with a number property (prime, square, cube; triple prime) [34-132,35-199]
common word: PRIME (letter sum 61, prime)
common word: SQUARE (letter sum 81 = 9 x 9)
e.g. BE (triple prime: sum 7, 2 letters, B and E at prime positions)
h. perfect word (letter values are the proper factors of a perfect number) [40-179]
e.g. CAB (1+2+3=6)
i. vowel-consonant balanced word (vowels and consonants have equal letter sums) [44-296]
e.g. hole: E+O = 20 = H+L
j. digital root of letter sum [12-98,WW52.2-52,WW52.4-43]
e.g. valuable 76 > 13 > 4; sprouts 128 > 11 > 2
k. letter-sum run (a word for every letter sum from 1 up), longest unbroken run [28-91,151,37-284,38-67]
e.g. unbroken run of letter sums extended to 501, then to 547
l. letter-sum synonyms and antonyms (pairs with equal letter sums) [34-287]
e.g. SAME = ALIKE = 38; HEAT = COLD = 34; BUY = SELL = 48
m. alphanumerically truthful equation (number-name equation whose letter sums agree too) [37-186,37-202,38-77,38-137]
e.g. ELEVEN + TWO = TWELVE + ONE (letter sums 63 + 58 = 87 + 34 = 121)
n. totally extreme word (letter sum equals the concatenated values of first and last letters) [44-237]
e.g. CLIFF = 3+12+9+6+6 = 36, the values of C (3) and F (6) side by side
o. self-numbering word (letter values combined by arithmetic give the word's own number) [IN4-13,IN5-10,IN5-13]
e.g. HYDROGEN: (8+25-4-18)/(-15+7+5+14) = 1, its atomic number
e.g. TEN = (20+5!)/14 = 10
p. equation word (letter values in order punctuated by arithmetic operators into a true equation) [48-143]
e.g. CAB: 3 = 1+2; ADD: 1x4 = 4
q. numerical rhyme (word whose letter sum is a number whose spoken name rhymes with the word) [45-293]
e.g. CONTRAVENE = 117 (one hundred and seventeen)
e.g. GONE = 41 (forty-one); KANGAROO = 82 (eighty-two)
r. seesaw alphanumeric value (letter values alternately added and subtracted), highest and lowest [46-174,46-247]
e.g. TARAMASALATAS = 20-1+18-1+13-1+19-1+12-1+20-1+19 = +115 (highest)
e.g. CZAREVITCHES = 3-26+1-18+5-22+9-20+3-8+5-19 = -87 (lowest)
letter product (multiply together positions of letters in alphabet)
a. subtransposition (words with same letter product), longest well-mixed [M183, 13-25,15-18]
common words: multiconductor & manufacturability (17-t)
common words: crystallographer & paternalistically (17-t)
common words: personalization & microencapsulated (17-t)
common words: procrastination & anachronistically (17-t)
common words: psychotherapists & phosphodiesterase (17-t)
common words: respectfully & postbaccalaureate (17-t)
common words: thermoregulation & neuropharmacology (17-t)
uncommon words: reithrodontomyses & pseudosaccharomycetaceae (24-t)
uncommon words: glycerophosphocholine & electroencephalographies (24-t)
uncommon words: histoincompatibilities & mediastinopericarditides (24-t)
phrases: malicious burning of other's property & incompatible blood transfusion reaction (36)
b. closest to one million
common word: curing (1000188)
uncommon words: typey, teaette, jebytt, pytye, teeteed, tetty, yatteed, yetted (1000000-t)
c. closest to two million
common words: cuffing, curbing, garifuna, guilin, ingrain, raining (2000376-t)
uncommon word: teethy (2000000)
d. closest to three million
common word: peyote (3000000)
e. closest to four million
common words: braining, brining, girding, luring, ruling, uighur, uncurl (4000752-t)
uncommon words: payette, peepeye, petyte, tetteed, tettet (4000000-t)
f. closest to five million
common words: coining, gurion, juicing (5000940-t)
g. word with unique letter product, shortest
common words: a (1-t)
common words: c (1-t)
common words: g (1-t)
common words: k (1-t)
common words: q (1-t)
common words: r (1-t)
common words: u (1-t)
common words: w (1-t)
common words: y (1-t)
... and 2 others
uncommon words: cq (2-t)
uncommon words: qm (2-t)
uncommon words: qv (2-t)
digital word (letters replaced by their alphabetical positions as decimal numbers) [22-51,177,23-175]
e.g., WORD = (23, 15, 18, 4)
a. numberdrome (digital word palindrome), longest
e.g., HAIR = (8, 1, 9, 18)
common word: insulins (8)
uncommon words: hagahhagah, hidihhidih (10-t)
hyphenated word: heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh (18)
b. digital charade pair (digital words the same ignoring separations between numbers), longest well-mixed
e.g., ABOVE = (1, 2, 15, 22, 5), LOVE = (12, 15, 22, 5)
common words: clovers & clobbers (8-t)
common words: craving & crabbing (8-t)
common words: staving & stabbing (8-t)
uncommon words: bellying & belaveing (9-t)
uncommon words: cloving & cabobbing (9-t)
uncommon words: parlunes & paravanes (9-t)
uncommon words: proclus & praecavas (9-t)
uncommon words: sabylles & saveables (9-t)
uncommon words: skylles & saleables (9-t)
... and 2 others
c. digital reversal pair, longest
e.g., ABULIA = (1, 2, 21, 12, 9, 1), SULU = (19, 21, 12, 21)
common words: enamels & ilocano (7)
uncommon words: isodomon & daemoness (9)
d. numbergram (digital transposal set), largest [22-177]
common words: nows & owns & snow & sown & axiom & clods & colds & exams & iowan & maxes & melds & milne & minya &
mused & odium & scold & wanes & weans & caused & clades & decals & licked & mailed & medial & sauced &
scaled & dieback (27)
uncommon words: cryons & myrsen & noshow & nowres & owners & resown & rowens & rownes & scorny & snowre & sowner &
swoord & synroc & wenros & woners & woords & wornes & worods & worsen & adrowes & adrowse &
ashwood & bescorn & boronic & bromine & carneys & caryens & carynes & cedrols & censure & chesoun &
chounse & coaxers & cobiron & coenuri & cohunes & colders & corldes & courdes & coursed & craneys &
craynes & crenels & creolin & croudes & crusoed & cuoshen & decours & demures & dibromo & diework &
dreamsy & dremels & dyermas & embrion & enceurs & encures & encurse & erineum & ermelin & erodium &
exormia & hamynes & heymans & holonic & hounces & imborne & incoler & iowaner & licorne & locrine &
lonches & maynhes & medlers & melders & meliner & merline & meunier & moldier & mordieu & mureeds &
museder & muserde & mynahes & newares & nickery & niemler & nochels & nouches & nourice & omidyar &
onychas & ouncier & radeyms & ramexes & ramysde & redowas & resumed & scenary & schekyn & schoold &
scolder & scoured & serbdom & sewaren & smerled & sombred & sourced & swerked & synocha & unireme &
weaners & wearnes & weasner & werenas & woaders & woodash & ambereds & amberoid & anerobic &
aneuches & arcadyes & awardees & baconier & boehmian & bohemian & brocades & carbeens & carbenes &
careline & causeder & cedrelas & cenobiar & cerealin & cesuraed & chaneles & chelonia & cheneaus &
cinereal & coalshed & cordelia & cordiale & creedals & daycares & declares & deerlick & descaler &
doralice & embrased & embreads & esclared & halidome & hanceles & haumedes & helicaon & hielamen &
hieleman & leechkin & lickeder & maileder & medialer & meridale & necialer & necrobia & raceline &
reinbeck & reliance & remailed & remedial & rescaled & sauceder & saucered & scaleder & senechal &
shawanee & yhackeds & bridecake & carabinee & abecedaria (179)
hyphenated words: cryons & myrsen & no-show & noshow & nowres & owners & resown & rowens & rownes & scorny &
snowre & sowner & swoord & synroc & wenros & woners & woords & wornes & worods & worsen &
adrowes & adrowse & ash-wood & ashwood & bescorn & boronic & bromine & carneys & caryens &
carynes & cedrols & censure & chesoun & chounse & coaxers & cob-iron & cobiron & coenuri &
cohunes & colders & corldes & courdes & coursed & craneys & craynes & crenels & creolin &
croudes & crusoed & cuoshen & decours & demures & dibromo & die-work & diework & dreamsy &
dremels & dyermas & embrion & enceurs & encures & encurse & erineum & ermelin & erodium &
exormia & hamynes & heymans & holonic & hounces & imborne & incoler & iowaner & licorne &
lime-rod & locrine & lonches & maynhes & medlers & melders & meliner & merline & meunier &
moldier & mordieu & mureeds & museder & muserde & mynahes & newares & nickery & niemler &
nochels & nouches & nourice & omidyar & onychas & ouncier & radeyms & ramexes & ramysde &
redowas & resumed & scenary & schekyn & schoold & scolder & scoured & serbdom & sewaren &
smerled & sombred & sourced & swerked & synocha & unireme & weaners & wearnes & weasner &
werenas & woaders & woodash & ambereds & amberoid & anerobic & aneuches & arcadyes & awardees &
baconier & boehmian & bohemian & brocades & carbeens & carbenes & care-line & careline &
causeder & cedrelas & cenobiar & cerealin & cesuraed & chaneles & chelonia & cheneaus & cinereal &
coal-shed & coalshed & cordelia & cordiale & creedals & daycares & declares & deer-lick &
deerlick & descaler & doralice & embrased & embreads & esclared & halidome & hanceles & haumedes &
helicaon & hielamen & hieleman & leechkin & lickeder & loi-cadre & loin-ache & maileder &
medialer & meridale & necialer & necrobia & raceline & reinbeck & reliance & remailed & remedial &
rescaled & sauceder & saucered & scaleder & senechal & shawanee & yhackeds & bridecake &
carabinee & abecedaria (189)
phrases: crony's & cryons & myrsen & no show & no-show & noshow & nowres & on show & owner's & owners & resown &
rowens & rownes & scorny & snowre & sowner & swoord & synroc & wenros & woners & woords & wornes & worods &
worsen & adrowes & adrowse & air wood & ash wood & ash-wood & ashwood & bescorn & boronic & bremen's &
bromine & carney's & carneys & caryens & carynes & cedrols & censure & chesoun & chounse & coaxer's &
coaxers & cob-iron & cobiron & coenuri & cohunes & colders & con brio & corday's & corldes & courdes &
coursed & craneys & craynes & crenels & creolin & croudes & crusoed & cuoshen & decours & delmer's &
demures & dibromo & die-work & diework & dreamsy & dremels & dyermas & embrion & enceurs & encures &
encurse & erineum & ermelin & erodium & exormia & hamynes & heymans & holonic & hounces & imborne &
incoler & iowaner & licorne & lime-rod & locrine & lonches & maynhes & medlers & melders & meliner &
merline & meunier & moldier & mordieu & mureeds & museder & muserde & mynahes & newares & nickery &
niemler & nochels & nouches & nourice & omidyar & onychas & ouncier & radeyms & ramexes & ramysde & red
elms & redowas & resumed & scenary & schekyn & schoold & scolder & scoured & serbdom & sewaren & smerled &
sombred & sourced & swerked & synocha & unireme & weaners & wearnes & weasner & werenas & woaders & wood
ash & woodash & ambereds & amberoid & anerobic & aneuches & arcadyes & are dawes & awardees & baconier &
bar codes & beni amer & boehmian & bohemian & brocade's & brocades & carbeens & carbenes & care-line &
careline & causeder & cedrelas & cenobiar & cerealin & cesuraed & chaneles & chelonia & cheneaus &
cinereal & coal-shed & coalshed & cordelia & cordiale & creedals & day cares & daycare's & daycares &
daycares% & declares & deer lick & deer-lick & deerlick & descaler & doralice & due cares & embrased &
embreads & esclared & halidome & hanceles & haumedes & helicaon & hielamen & hieleman & hold aces & in a
creel & leechkin & lickeder & loi-cadre & loin-ache & maileder & medialer & meridale & necialer &
necrobia & race line & raceline & red scale & reinbeck & reliance & remailed & remedial & rescaled &
sauceder & saucered & scaleder & senechal & shawanee & yhackeds & be ashamed & bridecake & carabinee &
abecedaria (217)
e. numbergram (digital transposal set), largest all words of different length [22-51]
common words: dropouts & outspread & pasteboard & breakfasted (4-t)
common words: snouts & jillion & beatniks & databases (4-t)
common words: stormy & lectors & lemaitre & aerobatic (4-t)
common words: strymon & monolith & educators & metalheads (4-t)
common words: mount & lament & tackled & backdate (4-t)
common words: moult & jumble & tamable & backbeat (4-t)
common words: outrow & rowboat & alembert & traceable (4-t)
common words: immunity & militancy & vaccinates & dialectical (4-t)
common words: wanton & untamed & bandmate & backdated (4-t)
... and 37 others
uncommon words: monstruosity & consultoriest & latrodectusses & mediatoriallest & attachablenesses (5-t)
uncommon words: ontrusty & atrovents & latentlier & jubilateder & deblateratia (5-t)
uncommon words: stumpworks & stumpsucker & postsaccular & plasmaticaler & carapaciallest (5-t)
uncommon words: outwrest & lettucers & acervatest & teachablest & betabacteria (5-t)
uncommon words: triumphously & puericultures & imperativaller & bacillariophyta & alphabeticallier (5-t)
uncommon words: nextmost & jocundity & unmeditate & ambidentate & abjudicateed (5-t)
... and 171 others
f. square digital word (concatenated letter values form a perfect square) [4-34,40-297]
e.g. HAVE = 8.1.22.5 = 81225 = 285^2
g. digital generic sequence (digit string of letter values is a tautonym, palindrome or run) [41-219]
e.g. CADET = 3.1.4.5.20 = 314520 and CENT = 3.5.14.20 = 351420 (digits 0-5 once each)
sum pair (adding adjacent letters forms another word) [10-47,12-216,30-48,39-122]
e.g., CAN => DO: D = C + A, O = A + N
a. longest
common words: bandar => cores (6-t)
common words: affine => glows (6-t)
common words: loyola => annam (6-t)
common words: gloved => sakai (6-t)
common words: sanded => torii (6-t)
uncommon words: baghdad => cholee (7-t)
uncommon words: armando => senors (7-t)
uncommon words: bandaka => corell (7-t)
uncommon words: alokola => mazzam (7-t)
uncommon words: annanna => oboobo (7-t)
uncommon words: arieira => sannas (7-t)
... and 52 others
hyphenated words: sanasanas => toot-toot (9)
b. longest progressive
common words: look => adz => ed => i (4-t)
common words: trio => lax => my => l (4-t)
common words: sank => toy => in => w (4-t)
uncommon words: diffid => molom => baab => cbc => ee => j (6-t)
uncommon words: navvie => owren => lows => alp => mb => o (6-t)
uncommon words: neppen => sufus => naan => obo => qq => h (6-t)
uncommon words: utuutu => oopoo => deed => iji => ss => l (6-t)
uncommon words: niffin => wolow => laal => mbm => oo => d (6-t)
uncommon words: razzar => sazas => taat => ubu => ww => t (6-t)
c. Fibonacci or additive word (each letter the sum of the preceding two or three, mod 26), longest
[37-297,38-310,39-224,41-215]
e.g. POET: P+O = 31 = 5 = E (mod 26), O+E = 20 = T; likewise HOWL, ORGY, WAXY (4 letters)
e.g. German WURMER (6): W+U = R, U+R = M, R+M = E, M+E = R (mod 26)
d. word sum without carrying (column-wise letter addition mod 26 of two words gives a word) [30-48]
e.g. ABAFT + OCCUR = PEDAL (A+O = P, B+C = E, A+C = D, F+U = A, T+R = L, mod 26)
e.g. HOLLY + SKIFF = AZURE; HOLLY + TWIST = BLUES
difference pair (subtracting adjacent letters forms another word) [B43,3-231,4-139,8-163,207,10-48,12-216,29-228,30-37]
e.g., BONBON => MALMA: M = O - B, A = N - O, L = N - B
a. longest
common words: hazels => gauss (6-t)
common words: kiters => boomy (6-t)
common words: miters => doomy (6-t)
common words: ojibwe => eager (6-t)
common words: photog => hsueh (6-t)
common words: repaid => moore (6-t)
common words: eldest => shyly (6-t)
common words: waiter => vroom (6-t)
uncommon words: bonniest => mazedly (8)
b. longest progressive
common words: lint => cut => ha => g (4-t)
common words: pint => gut => la => k (4-t)
common words: onto => ate => go => r (4-t)
common words: barn => aid => re => m (4-t)
common words: sing => jug => on => a (4-t)
common words: trio => bit => so => d (4-t)
uncommon words: aniest => medly => harm => gie => xd => t (6)
c. chaotic words (no repeated differences between adjacent letters), longest [23-180]
common words: accomplishments, euphemistically, expressionistic, impressionistic, interrogatories, macroscopically,
microenterprise, misapprehension, overzealousness, physiotherapist, tyrannosauruses, uncontroversial
(15-t)
uncommon words: autosuggestibility, hemibasidiomycetes, photofluoroscopies, combinatorialliest, predicamentalliest,
prepublicationnest, quadraphonicallier, remythologizations, uncontradictablier (18-t)
phrases: I should think suppose, gain the confidence of (19-t)
d. chaotic pairs (no repeated inter-letter shifts), longest [23-110]
interpret, statesman (9)
e. cyclic difference word (differences of successive letters form another word) [30-125]
e.g. TAPES -> GOON (differences of T-A-P-E-S mod 26: 7, 15, 15, 14)
letters restricted to mathematical sequences [5-51,108,32-8,33-135,34-132,189]
a. all letters restricted to squares = ADIPY, longest [19-171,36-296]
common words: papaya, payday (6-t)
uncommon word: apapapapa (9)
hyphenated word: yada-yada-yada (12)
phrase: yadda yadda yadda (15)
b. all letters restricted to primes = BCEGKMQSW, longest [27-87]
common words: cesses, emcees, messes (6-t)
uncommon words: meseemses, sweeswees, skewesses (9-t)
hyphenated word: see-see-sees (10)
c. all letters restricted to Fibonacci sequence = ABCEHMU, longest
common words: bacchae, beecham (7-t)
uncommon word: macacahuba (10)
hyphenated word: heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh (18)
d. word embedded in the Fibonacci sequence mod 26 [36-198,36-199]
e.g. Fibonacci numbers mod 26 (Z = 0): ZAABCEHMUHCKNYMLYKJUEZEEJOY... contains ZEE and JOY
e.g. the same 84-letter loop also holds MAN, CRUM, RUM, LAM, HEM
e. odd-letter word (spelled only with letters in odd alphabet positions, ACEGIKMOQSUWY), longest; even-letter words
likewise [25-56]
uncommon word: massasaugas
uncommon words: acquiesces & sequacious
e.g. odd-letter place names: MACAU, MOSCOW
equidistant word (nth letter same distance from A as nth letter from end is from Z), longest
common words: hovels, wizard (6-t)
hyphenated word: klop-klop (8)
letters in order minus not, longest
common words: acquaintanceship, begrudgingly, biodegradability (7-t)
uncommon words: acquaintanceships, biopsychologist, intersubstitutability, actinostereoscopy, browdinsterschips,
grandiloquacity, interdefinability (8-t)
hyphenated word: north-northwestwardly (9)
phrase: a civil question deserves a civil answer (11)
total disorder (no letter in its alphabetic place), longest [2-14,12-91]
common word: deinstitutionalization (22)
uncommon word: nepparterrestaalplaatserretrappen (33)
phrases: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, commissioners standard ordinary table, croats, and Slovenes, Kingdom of the
Serbs, erasable programmable read only memory, ... and 96 others (34-t)
vicinal (each letter has an alphabetic neighbor in the word), longest [M168,16-176,220,17-28,32-75]
common word: unreconstructed (15)
uncommon words: alkylbenzenesulfonates, counterdistinguisheder (22-t)
hyphenated word: tristhio-dimethyl-benzaldehyde (28)
phrases: caput longum musculi bicipitis brachii, federal islamic republic of the comoros, idiopathic paroxysmal
rhabdomyolysis, nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (34-t)
letter sum of equal-sized pieces equal [M186,3-10,4-185]
e.g., EXIT: E(5) + X(24) = 29 = I(9) + T(20)
a. numerical tautonym (two halves have same sum), longest [3-244,30-204,290,31-11,36-141]
common words: conditionalities, persuasivenesses, unconventionally, vasoconstriction, whatchamacallits (16-t)
uncommon words: hypergammaglobulinemicer, hypobetalipoproteinemias (24-t)
phrase: familial lipoprotein lipase inhibitor (34)
i. functional numerical tautonym (halves give equal results under subtraction, multiplication or division of letter
values) [48-61]
e.g. BATS (B-A = T-S = 1), FARM (F-A = R-M = 5), LAMB (L-A = M-B = 11)
b. three equal-sized pieces have same sum, longest
common word: exterminator (12)
uncommon words: microspectroscopes, subminiaturisation (18-t)
phrase: some one is walking over my grave (27)
c. four equal-sized pieces have same sum, longest
common word: underpayment (12)
phrases: phoxinus phoxinus, riddle me, riddle me (16-t)
d. five equal-sized pieces have same sum, longest
hyphenated word: tit-tit-tit-tit-tit (15)
e. numerical palindrome (parts' letter sums read as a digit palindrome), longest [29-242,30-66,42-307]
e.g. RESEDACEAE: RESED = 51, ACEAE = 15 (51.15)
e.g. UNINTERMITTENT: UNINTER = 101, MITTENT = 101 (101.101)
e.g. EMBOLISM 35.53; GAMBIA 21.12
f. numerical charade (word split anywhere into groups whose letter sums are equal, palindromic or in progression)
[43-58,43-145,43-184,44-34,44-192,45-138,WW53.1-70,WW53.2-38]
e.g. POE.TRY 36.63; CAM.EL 17.17; GAM.B.LED 21.2.21
g. triangular progression (word as a letter triangle whose row sums form an arithmetic progression)
[42-88,42-167,42-172,42-255]
e.g. QUILLS: Q / UI / LLS = 17, 30, 43 (step 13)
e.g. RESIGN: R / ES / IGN = 18, 24, 30 (step 6)
h. alternate numerical tautonym (odd- and even-position letters have equal sums) [42-307]
e.g. IMPONDERABLE: I+P+N+E+A+L = 57 = M+O+D+R+B+E
e.g. MYTH: M+T = 33 = Y+H
i. digitalised numerical tautonym (halves have equal sums of the digits of their letter values) [44-152]
e.g. TH.EN: 2+8 = 10 = 5+5 (T=20 gives 2, N=14 gives 5)
e.g. ATO.NAL: 1+2+6 = 9 = 5+1+3
j. numerical Russian doll (letter sum of an inner block equals the sum of the outer letters around it) [47-92]
e.g. maTUred: T+U = 41 = M+A+R+E+D
balance points [M186,2-37,31-11,18]
e.g., STEAD balances at T: 1 * S(19) = 1 * E(5) + 2 * A(1) + 3 * D(4))
a. word balances about some position, longest
common words: consubstantiation, thoughtlessnesses, unintelligibility (17-t)
uncommon word: nepparterrestaalplaatserretrappen (33)
b. word balances about central position, longest [2-37]
common words: consubstantiation, thoughtlessnesses, unintelligibility (17-t)
uncommon word: nepparterrestaalplaatserretrappen (33)
c. ratio balance point to length, leftmost
common word: wrongheaded (0.36)
uncommon word: yugada (0.33)
d. ratio balance point to length, rightmost
common word: aces (0.87)
last in reverse alphabetical order, for each letter [B98,5-186,7-157,214]base 26 words [2-14,10-30,14-113]
a. words in pi (pi written in base 26 or 27, or reduced mod 26) [32-243,32-250,33-36,40-3]
e.g. pi in base 26 (A=0): D.DRSQLOLYRTRODNL...: LO at digit 6, then ROD inside TROD
e.g. first 6- and 7-letter words in base-26 pi: OXYGEN; SUBPLOT (digit 115042)
b. base pair (words in different number bases with the same value) [38-154]
e.g. GIRL (base 30) = BEER (base 34) = 449031 (digits 0-9, then A = 10 ...)
c. sematria (letter strings read as base-27 integers) [26-67]
e.g. LEE = 12x27^2 + 5x27 + 5 = 8888 (base 27, A = 1)
number names [7-56,13-55,14-166,215,16-117,23-20]
a. number name hidden in a word (letters in order, not adjacent), for each number [2-13,31-223,33-299,34-254,36-83,36-174]
e.g. cOuNtErfeit hides ONE; THeRmomEtEr hides THREE
b. hidden number name (word containing a number name as a substring) [WW53.3-33]
e.g. posix (six), thundred (hundred)
e.g. often (ten), weight (eight), bone (one)
c. anagrammatic number equation (true equation whose two sides are transposals: ELEVEN + TWO = TWELVE + ONE)
[3-169,14-167,25-244,35-308,44-94,44-254,45-88]
e.g. ELEVEN + TWO = TWELVE + ONE
d. self-summing number name (letter sum equals the number) [14-167,18-217,28-210,40-288,40-291,41-320,WW53.2-26]
e.g. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE = 58+74+19+66+34 = 251
e.g. FOURTEEN DOZEN = 104+64 = 168
i. self-summing number names under assigned letter values or a rearranged alphabet (each number name sums to its
own number), most; longest consecutive run [22-238,23-12,23-20,23-93,24-165,24-222,25-59]
e.g. with S = 1, I = 2, X = 3: SIX = 1+2+3 = 6 (letter values chosen so names sum to themselves)
e. letter-truthful number name (contains letters whose values sum to the number) [32-298,34-139]
e.g. fivE (E = 5); eigHt (H = 8); nIne (I = 9); tHirtEen (H+E = 13)
f. truthful number name (counts a feature of itself: letters, bigrams, subwords) [2-179,3-41,33-221]
e.g. FOUR has four letters (likewise Japanese NI, SAN; German VIER; Spanish CINCO)
g. truthful arithmetical charade (letter values of the name combine arithmetically to the number) [44-254,44-258]
e.g. FIVE = (-F+I+V)/E = (-6+9+22)/5 = 5
h. eban number (number name without E) [TJ9-22]
common words: two & four & six & thirty & forty & sixty
i. supervocalic number name (contains each of AEIOU once, or n times) [TJ9-26,TJ9-33]
e.g. FIVE THOUSAND (vowels I, E, O, U, A once each)
j. self-counting number name (as many consonants as its value) [TJ4-62]
e.g. ONE (one consonant, N); THREE (three consonants, T H R)
k. pangrammatic number name (uses all 23 letters found in number names) [7-50,36-221]
e.g. 1,001,000,000,001,000,001,001,002,568: one octillion one septillion ... sixty eight (91 letters)
l. same rank in alphabetical and numerical order [14-18,TJ2-14]
e.g. 1-4 alphabetized: four, one, THREE, two (three is 3rd in both orders)
e.g. for 1-999 there are no matches at all (Eckler)
m. letter-count and letter-sum chains (iterate on the number name; convergence) [28-187,34-208,35-213]
e.g. ELEVEN (6) -> SIX (3) -> THREE (5) -> FIVE (4) -> FOUR (4): letter counts end at FOUR
n. alphamagic square (magic square whose number names' letter counts also form a magic square) [20-56,24-70,40-271,41-95]
e.g. 5 22 18 / 28 15 2 / 12 8 25 -> letter counts 4 9 8 / 11 7 3 / 6 5 10 (both magic)
o. acrostic equation (initials of the number names in a true equation spell the result) [41-153]
e.g. TEN = Twenty + Eighty - Ninety
p. sumagram (word that is an anagram of number names added and subtracted) [37-134,38-40,38-100]
e.g. SIXTEEN + TEN - NINE = SEXTET
e.g. FORTUNE = TEN + FOUR
q. inflationary language (raise each number word hidden in a word by one) [18-169,WW51.2-13]
e.g. wonderful -> twoderful, before -> befive, create -> crenine
r. number names in alphabetical order (alphabetically first and last number names, cardinal, ordinal, fraction)
[4-110,13-55,14-86]
e.g. 1-999 alphabetized: first EIGHT, last TWO HUNDRED TWO
s. number-name or element-name transaddition (fewest letters added to transpose the name into a word or place name)
[8-216,9-16,10-22,10-37,10-122,10-227,11-12,11-138]
e.g. THREE -> ETHER, THERE; SEVEN -> EVENS; TEN -> NET (no letters added)
e.g. EIGHTY has no transposal in English (Francis)
t. bi-square and bi-triangular number name (square or triangular number whose name also has a square or triangular number
of letters) [28-212]
e.g. FOUR, NINE (4 letters); THIRTY-SIX, FORTY-NINE, SIXTY-FOUR, EIGHTY-ONE (9 letters)
u. equiliteral number-name set (number names with equal letter counts; self-referential when the set's size is a member)
[28-102,28-173]
e.g. ZERO FOUR FIVE NINE: the four 4-letter names, with FOUR among them
e.g. ONE TWO SIX TEN (all three letters)
v. crossnumber (number names interlocked crossword-fashion: grids, cubic grids, symmetric chains, number trees), incl.
quancrete poetry [26-25,26-223]
e.g. THREE across, TEN down from its T, NINE down ending on its last E
w. snowball-histogram number name (number name whose letter counts are exactly 1, 2, ..., N) [45-288,46-7]
e.g. THREE NONILLION THIRTEEN TRILLION NINETEEN BILLION: 1 B, 2 H, 3 R, 4 O, 5 T, 6 L, 7 E, 8 I, 9 N
non-vicinal word (no two letters alphabet neighbours), longest [31-178,32-75,35-84]
uncommon words: cancellanses & carpet
alternating odd and even letters (alternate between odd and even alphabet positions), longest [34-292,35-136]
e.g. JUPITER: J10 U21 P16 I9 T20 E5 R18 (even, odd, even, odd ...)
constant-step word (each letter a fixed number of places after the last, cyclically), longest [42-167,WW53.1-65]
e.g. tepal (+11), mucks (+8), anana (+13)
forwards-and-backwards word (letters rise alphabetically to a peak, then fall) [35-206]
e.g. BIRTH (B<I<R<T>H), MOUSE (M<O<U>S>E), FORUM (F<O<R<U>M)
frame word (outermost letter pairs alternate up and down the alphabet, working inward) [30-224]
e.g. FRAME over WORDS: F<W, R>O, A<R, M>D, E<S (directions alternate)
word weave (letters in odd and in even positions each in alphabetical order), longest [38-47,38-153]
e.g. HANDSETS (odd letters H N S T and even letters A D E S both alphabetical); BUCKLING; WATCHMAN
ambidextrous word (first half from A-M, second half from N-Z; antidextrous the reverse), longest [34-292,34-295,35-56,35-57,36-3,39-116,41-176]
e.g. AMBIDE|XTROUS, BLADDE|RWORTS (first half A-M, second half N-Z)
alphabet window word (letters from one block of n consecutive letters), longest for each n [35-96,36-46,36-137]
e.g. HAMAMELIDACEAE (14, A-M only); NONSUPPORTS (11, N-Z only)
half-and-half word (letters split equally under several bipartitions of the alphabet), most bipartitions [38-233]
e.g. PA, PI, VOID and VIOLET split evenly under 8 of 10 bipartitions (vowels, odd/even, A-M/N-Z ...)
inword (letters fall alphabetically between successive letter pairs of another word) [32-133]
e.g. NO is an inword of YES (N between Y and E, O between E and S)
e.g. IMPS of GLORY; IRON of BLUES; CHIMED of AVARICE
letter-length word (n-letter word beginning or ending with the nth letter), for each n [TJ7-82]
e.g. counting back from Z: by (Y), six (X), know (W), Negev (V), bureau (U), without (T), analysis (S)
alphagram rank (first, last and midpoint words among the sorted letter sets of a length) [4-28,TJ2-61,IN5-84,IN5-86,IN5-89]
e.g. alphagram dictionary: second entry under B is HUBBLE-BUBBLE, last is BY; under D, FUDDY-DUDDY ... DUX
scrambled alphabet (letter order chosen to maximize alphabetical-order words) [4-70,6-153,7-73,21-145]
a. alphabet ring (the 26 letters in a circle so that every adjacent bigram or trigram occurs inside a word), fewest words
[10-189,10-216,11-215]
e.g. QURGHFICKJAWNTZVOMSPLYBDEX: adjacent trigrams occur in words (shUR, bURG, thorouGH ...)
b. word-free alphabet (letter order in which no word longer than three letters is in alphabetical order) [4-170]
e.g. UIAOEYSDBPMHTGNLRKCFWVJQXZ: the only 4+ letter word in this order is IAOS (near miss)
Subset of Wordconsecutive letters in alphabet
a. containing most [L168,4-10,144,5-22,7-61,11-36,108,12-169,15-77,151,154,212,16-156,26-34,115,175]
common words: disenfranchising, goldfinches, kilimanjaro, lightfaced (7-t)
uncommon words: hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, tympanosquamosaler, tympanosquamosaller (10-t)
phrases: knight of st john of jerusalem, knights of st john of jerusalem, quos deus vult perdere prius dementat,
desquamative interstitial pneumonia, ... and 3 others (11-t)
b. containing most, for each letter [32-101]
see list Word Containing Most Consecutive Letters in the Alphabet after Each Letter
c. consecutive alphabetic letters in left-to-right order
i. containing most
common words: absconded, kilimanjaro, kilmarnock, reconstructive, redistributive (5-t)
uncommon word: skelmanthorpe (6)
ii. containing most, for each letter [L168,4-207,7-62,88,188]
see list Word Containing Most Consecutive Letters in Order after Each Letter
d. consecutive alphabetic letters in order consecutively, containing most [L168,20-176,32-101,WW51.3-42,WW51.4-4]
common words: overstuffed, understudy (4-t)
e. consecutive runs of consecutive alphabetic letters, containing most
common words: catastrophist, damndest, sophist (3-t)
uncommon words: echinoders, myctophidest, psammophidest (4-t)
f. ratio of consecutive alphabetic letters to length, highest
common words: backed, braced, cabled, quarts, squirt (0.83-t)
uncommon words: feigh, struv (1-t)
g. consecutive alphabetic letters in reverse order consecutively, containing most [WW51.4-9]
common words: abandonment, apportionment, bedchamber, bedclothes, bioweapons, cantonment, capone, capons, component,
confederacy, confederate, corespondent, correspond, correspondence, correspondent, cosponsor,
cottonmouth, coupons, crampons, ... and 81 others (3-t)
uncommon words: boutsrimes, tamponment, weaponmaker (4-t)
h. consecutive run up and down, longest
common word: overstuffed (7)
phrase: overstuffed chair (8)
i. circular alphabetic quartet (word containing four letters consecutive in the circular alphabet) [4-10]
e.g. AZOXY (X, Y, Z, A), FIGHT (F, G, H, I), LEMON (L, M, N, O)
j. undominated alphabetic sequence (run of consecutive alphabet letters in a word that no word extends) [15-77]
e.g. RSTU in oveRSTUffed: no word has QRSTU or RSTUV as adjacent letters
letters in alphabetical place or alphabet crashes [4-96,5-133,140,206,12-59,15-180,35-215]
a. letters in alphabetical place without shifting alphabet, containing most
common word: archetypical (5)
uncommon word: saccharhinoceroidest (6)
b. letters in alphabetical place with shifting alphabet, containing most [5-140,12-92]
common words: cooperatively, inoperative, neighborlinesses (6-t)
phrases: adenosine monophosphate, archiepiscopal staves, cyclic adenosine monophosphate, filiform apparatus, ... and
12 others (7-t)
c. no letters in alphabetical place, longest [2-15,12-91]
common word: deinstitutionalization (22)
uncommon word: nepparterrestaalplaatserretrappen (33)
phrases: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, commissioners standard ordinary table, croats, and Slovenes, Kingdom
of the Serbs, erasable programmable read only memory, ... and 96 others (34-t)
d. last letter invariant, for each letter [4-96]
e. first letter reverse invariant, for each letter [4-91]
f. alphabetically progressive invariant set (A in position 1, B in position 2 ... each gives a word) [34-212,34-307,35-213]
e.g. ORES: ARES, OBES, ORCS, ORED (A in place 1, B in place 2, C in place 3, D in place 4)
g. cycle structure of a word (letters' alphabetical ranks read as a permutation and split into cycles) [10-52]
e.g. PROBLEM = 6751324 (ranks B1 E2 L3 M4 O5 P6 R7), cycles (1 6 2 7 4)(3 5)
h. alphabetic pattern (the set of shifted alphabets that crash with a word's letters, used to group words as letter
patterns group them) [26-9]
e.g. WRETCH crashes with the W, Q, C and Y shifted alphabets (W 1st of W..., R 2nd of QR..., E 3rd of CDE...)
i. unique-shift word (every letter has a different alphabetic shift, value minus position, so no two letters crash under
one shifted alphabet), longest [26-212]
uncommon word: quantificationally (18)
last letter next in alphabet after first letter
e.g., DONE, FOG, RAYS, WAX
a. shortest, for each letter
see list Shortest Word with Last Letter Next In Alphabet after First for Each Letter
scrambled alphabetic run (permutation of consecutive alphabet letters), longest [32-51,32-169,32-188]
e.g. debacle (DEBAC), feedback (EDBAC), subdeacon (BDEAC): ABCDE scrambled
alphabetic bigram word (made of two-letter units of alphabet neighbours) [35-292]
common words: stop & post & stab
a. equally-spaced bigram word (word made of two-letter units whose letters are the same number n of places apart in the
alphabet), for each n [50-71]
e.g. LO.AD (+3), ST.OP (+1), CH.IN.CH (+5), MU.CK (+8), OX.EN (+9)
alphabetically extreme word or name (first or last entry of a dictionary or gazetteer) [10-120]
e.g. Zzyzx Springs (California, last in gazetteers); zyzzogeton; ZZXJOANW (a hoax)
friendly alphabet (alphabet order in which every block of n adjacent letters occurs together in some word) [15-93]
e.g. MCVITLBZOUXFRNED...: every 6 adjacent letters in a word, e.g. MCVITL in victimizable
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