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Relations to Other Wordsa. Word Lists pangram (list of words containing all the letters of the alphabet) [1-101,116,4-239,5-52,107,181,205,10-41,84,103,11-245,16-234,20-90,154,21-225]
a. fewest letters [16-234]
uncommon words: waqf & jynx & speltz & vugh & mockbird [see "Pangram" article]
b. fewest words
uncommon words: qwerty & flax & buckjumping & vozhds [see "Pangram" article]
c. containing most different letters, two words [6-111,172,10-42,21-27,84]
uncommon words: poldavy & thumbscrewing (20) [see "Pangram" article]
uncommon words: blacksmith & gunpowdery (20) [see "Pangram" article]
d. containing most different letters, three words [10-42]
uncommon words: jumbling & frowzy & sketchpad (23) [see "Pangram" article]
uncommon words: browzing & kvetchy & mudflaps (23) [see "Pangram" article]
e. alphabetic word chains [3-32,12-174,218]
f. consonym [23-240]
g. pangrammatic window (shortest stretch of natural text containing every letter)
[5-160,205,6-14,7-50,31-32,33-54,291,293,34-74,35-243,36-221,37-186,38-79,293,39-3,71,138,45-313,WW51.1-51,WW51.2-33]
e.g. "...exquisitely deep blue just then, with filmy white clouds drawn up over it like gauze" (67)
e.g. 139-letter window in Austen's Mansfield Park ("...tranquillize yourself...")
h. alliterative pangram (all words begin with the same letter) [IN1-7,IN1-15,WW53.4-125]
e.g. A (36): Ajax, advected Abkhaz aquas amplify awrong!
e.g. C (39): Cawing caziques carjacked complex, crafted Chevy cabs.
i. pandrome (palindromic pangram), shortest [11-98,32-34]
e.g. Sexy Roz' ilk cap a vast fight? I won Deb, a... a Jammu/Qum maja! Abed? No, with gifts, Ava, pack Liz' oryxes!
(75)
e.g. A buck, a yare Zagreb man, a waxer (dip Ava, flesh ajar), Mo, qat, a Qom rajah's elf, ... a yak: Cuba! (89)
j. pangrammatic crossword (small grid holding all 26 letters) [33-130,36-149]
e.g. all 26 letters in a 3x11 grid with 7 blanks (ELUCIDATORY, BIZ, VEX, QAF, HUK, JOP, PWN, ...) (33)
e.g. 3x12 grid built on QUODLIBETARY with JUP, FIZ, KEX, CWM, NOH, VAC (36)
k. case-sensitive pangram (all 26 letters in both cases) [34-139,35-307]
l. pangrammatic list (shortest natural list whose entries begin with every letter) [37-217,38-136]
e.g. index of The Dinosaur Data Book: its 616 genus entries begin with every letter
e.g. index of a Confuciusornithidae paper: all 26 initials within 288 entries
m. restricted-list pangram (fewest names from a fixed list, e.g. elements or countries, containing every available letter)
[IN2-56,IN3-14,IN5-32]
e.g. zinc lawrencium oxygen krypton flerovium bismuth lead: all 24 letters found in element names (47)
e.g. 8 country names containing every letter that country names use, in 43 letters
n. multiple pangram (word list using every letter exactly twice or three times), fewest words [4-239,5-52,11-245]
e.g. cwms dick grow gyps hadj jazz klux lynx miff qoph qutb vent verb (13 words, each letter twice)
o. pangrammatic highway (shortest road distance whose signs supply the alphabet in order) [21-135]
e.g. I-75 north of Detroit: A-Z from roadside signs in order, J from JUNE, K from MCKEARNS, Q from SQUARE
p. pangrammatic pyramid (text in which the 26 letters occur 1, 2, ..., 26 times) [13-175]
e.g. Addleheaded Dale. (H once, L twice, A 3, E 4, D 5 times)
e.g. Bergerson's 15-letter stage: C 1, U 2, S 3, O 4, N 5 ... A 12, L 13, D 14, E 15 times
q. Jotto set (five five-letter words using 25 different letters), and its solutions [29-220]
e.g. fudgy jambs phlox wreck qvint (25 letters, no Z)
e.g. dzong crwth jumps flaky vibex (25 letters, no Q)
r. panlist (complete natural list, e.g. a family of species, whose names together contain every letter), fewest items
[48-144]
e.g. turbot family Scophthalmidae: 8 Latin names (whiff-jagonis, aquosus, maximus, Zeugopterus...) + K in topknot
e.g. Clifton Fadiman's 10 best novels (Jones, Quixote, Karamazov ...)
s. twenty consonant poem (text using each of the 20 consonants exactly once before any consonant repeats; vowels free)
[29-74]
e.g. I quit my job: a crazy wage slave, dead hunk of pox
e.g. I asked Bill for a waxy TV quip. Oh, gaze in my juice.
overlapping words
a. crash list (word list with matching letters in some positions)
i. longest symmetric [11-230]
see "Crashing Words" article
ii. one-crash [19-146,215]
iii. pan-crash [8-112,15-186,211]
iv. non-crash, longest [B71,5-107,174,6-67,156,15-95,151,19-91]
b. chain (list of overlapping words) [15-93,212]
i. chain text (each word begins with the last letter or letters of the previous)
[3-228,4-62,22-179,28-195,34-137,42-21,60]
e.g. Eager rabbits seldom munch hay.
ii. compound cycle (closed chain of words in which each adjacent pair forms a compound: ground water mark time
piece work horse play), shortest [2-118,3-38,3-41]
e.g. GROUND WATER MARK TIME PIECE WORK HORSE PLAY (back to GROUND)
e.g. tricycle: SAW HORSE POWER (sawhorse, horsepower, power saw)
e.g. bicycles: BOAT HOUSE (boathouse, houseboat); SHOT GUN (shotgun, gunshot)
iii. name chain (each adjacent pair of names is a real person's name) [4-46,4-51]
e.g. Emory Upton Sinclair Lewis Carroll Baker
e.g. Eve Marie Saint Patrick Henry ... Benjamin Franklin Roosevelt Grier Garson Kanin
iv. name splice (two names sharing a word merged into one) [19-245]
e.g. Boy George Bush; Thomas Jefferson Davis
v. word string or word stair (letter string in which every n consecutive letters form a word; ring if it closes),
longest [12-36,12-119,12-152]
e.g. SARIDEAD (sari, arid, ride, idea, dead)
e.g. GJUDZOSTWNEVRYMPHILACK (22 letters)
vi. directed word chain network ((n,m) chains: drop the first m letters of each word and add m new ones at the end,
e.g. PEA > EAT; networks, meshes, cores and longest chains) [24-154,24-159,24-228,26-40,26-125]
e.g. WASHERAGEMUD (3,1): was ash she her era rag age gem emu mud
e.g. PEA > EAT (drop first letter, add one at the end)
vii. disjoint word chain (longest sequence of distinct words from a set, each adjacent pair sharing no letter)
[48-204]
e.g. eight four seven thirty one ... (25 number names; neighbours share no letter)
viii. overlapping name (person's full name whose parts share end and start letters, so it can be written as one
string) [46-316,47-5]
e.g. WinSTONe (Winston Stone); MaxWELLington; MariGOLDberg
ix. syzygy (Lewis Carroll's chain linking each word to the next by a shared group of letters) [28-149]
e.g. CORMORANT (rmo) UPPERMOST (upp) SUPPLY
x. word maze or logomaze (maze whose corridors are word chains, travelled under fixed rules with loops but no dead
ends) [27-134]
e.g. Gordon's Logomaze: corridors are compound chains (hair-...-ship-yard); loops but no dead ends
c. circle or ring (list of overlapping words that loops back to the first word) [B23,1-215,9-161,10-189,11-215,18-167]
d. compasses [23-54]
cryptarithmetic word sets [23-67]
a. word equation using every digit, longest [23-67]
e.g., NINE * FOUR + FIVE = FORTY-ONE (20) (9895 * 3074 + 3865 = 30421-095)
b. doubly true alphametic (sum true in words and in digits) [31-191,31-230,39-179,40-199,WW51.1-10,WW51.2-41,WW51.4-101]
e.g. FORTY + TEN + TEN = SIXTY (29786 + 850 + 850 = 31486)
c. alphametic square root (word coding a pandigital square whose root spells a word in the same code) [3-123]
e.g. BREAKDOWNS = 2913408576, whose square root 53976 spells WARNS
d. literary cryptarithm (alphametic whose words make an apt statement and that has a unique solution) [22-251,23-26,23-67]
e.g. ODD + ODD = EVEN (655 + 655 = 1310)
e.g. PI x R^2 = AREA (96 x 7^2 = 4704)
word groups [1-212,10-85]
a. finite projective geometry [1-212,8-250,10-85,11-216,27-195]
i. finite affine plane of words [41-155,41-158]
e.g. order 2 on SIAM: lines IS, AM, AS, MI, MS, AI
e.g. order 3 on ADONIS: AD ON IS / IN AS DO / SO ID AN (rows, columns and all diagonals are lines)
b. square free and cadences [16-252,17-26]
c. Platonic solids [11-233,13-9,15-247]
d. word dice [3-29,6-103,108]
e. balanced [13-9,15-247]
f. word packing (fit a word set into the smallest rectangle, crossword style or touching)
[17-239,26-81,182,27-67,147,32-59,175,178,TJ10-4,TJ10-5,IN2-10,IN2-39,IN3-19,IN3-21,IN3-27,IN3-39,IN3-45,IN4-10,IN4-21,
IN4-25,IN4-31,IN4-34,IN4-35,IN4-52,IN5-7,IN5-25,IN5-44,IN5-102]
e.g. the first 1027 digits of pi as number words (4096 letters) packed in order into a 64 x 64 square
e.g. all US presidents' surnames in a crossword-style 450-cell rectangle
g. chess-move word grid (letter grid in which words are traced by king, queen or knight moves), most words
[1-110,236,3-40,7-101,212,14-251,29-56,82,202,32-163,TJ10-61]
e.g. king's moves in P E A R / A N ...: NEAR, PEA, PALE, RAN, LEAN
e.g. US presidents' surnames Washington to Clinton traced by king's moves in 93 letters
h. spiral alphabet (alphabet laid in a spiral so that words can be traced) [2-67,13-182,33-3]
e.g. A-Z spiralled from the centre: FAB in the 3x3, then ACME, ADO, HAD, RED; first 5-letter word SIGMA
i. orchard words (letters placed on tree-planting configurations, words along the rows) [39-217,41-2]
e.g. 9 letters in 10 rows of 3 (in order): pry eau nih yet nay her rat run hap put
e.g. 11 letters in 16 rows (transposed): yet shy due oat sen dry had sau nod hoe you ors are any nth put
j. word magic (numbers assigned to letters so that given words have equal sums) [40-293]
e.g. BASH BUMP CLAD CURE HORN MIND PLOT SITE each = 30
k. card-trick mnemonic (words in which each letter occurs exactly twice) [1-216,2-185,27-97,185]
e.g. MUTUS DEDIT NOMEN COCIS
common word: intestines
l. word-rich letter tuples (every choice of one letter from each set gives a word), most words [IN4-55,IN5-80]
e.g. {b,h,p,s} x {a,i} x {t}: bat bit hat hit pat pit sat sit
e.g. {b,c,f,h,m,p,r,s} x {a} x {t}: bat cat fat hat mat pat rat sat
m. symbol cover set (fewest words containing every member of a set of abbreviations) [IN3-10,IN3-16]
e.g. all element symbols in 36 words (abscessroot ... xenogamy)
e.g. 13 Canadian postal codes covered by 6 words
n. letter tree (binary tree of letters in which every downward path spells a word) [38-103,38-169]
e.g. K + ANALOGIES as a tree: saga, sage, sane, sank, sine, sink, silk, silo
o. compound-word grid (adjacent words in rows and columns form compounds) [32-21]
e.g. 20 x 20 grid of 400 words joined by 760 compound links
i. common-link compound set (one word forms compounds with each of several given words) [7-239]
e.g. FINGER: bowl, print, wave
e.g. CAKE: birthday, coffee, layer
p. isogrid (grid of words with no letter repeated in any row, column or diagonal), most letters [32-43]
e.g. shmaltz upwind very / wider fog humpbacks / puck blathers jinx (50)
q. interesting member of a set (every member of a closed set, e.g. the 50 states, given a logological property unique
within the set) [13-76,13-228,14-32]
e.g. MAINE: the only one-syllable state name
e.g. HAWAII: the only state name with a doubled I
r. magic circle (letters in a ring where every run of n adjacent letters transposes to a word) [18-167]
e.g. ring SUTINRGOABED: sturin truing trigon oaring barong borage bodega abodes abused busted suited nudist
s. pair-disjoint word set (no two letters appear together in more than one word), most words [19-146]
e.g. ale cab hag fan jam aid oak bed ice foe hen gem kin him jib fig oil con hod jog mob (21 from A-O)
e.g. EMU THY AGO TAU GYM HOE YOU HAM GET HUG TOM YEA (9 letters, 12 words)
t. rearrangeable word grid (grid of words cut into pieces that reassemble into a second grid of words)
[2-112,2-155,3-56,3-147]
e.g. Francis's 15x15 crossword cut into 25 3x3 blocks that reshuffle into a second crossword
e.g. pentomino rectangles: Eckler's 6-letter words survive the rearrangement in 17 of 20 places
u. alphabet cube (n-letter words plotted as points in an n-dimensional 26-unit lattice) [23-96]
e.g. HE = (8,5); HEM = (8,5,13); HEMP = (8,5,13,16)
e.g. GYP, HUM, KID, LEA lie on one straight line
v. compass words (two crossing words of equal odd length whose straight and right-angle readings are words, most), incl.
the game Crosspatch [22-236,23-54,23-237]
e.g. SLICK x KNITS: slink, slits, knick, stick
e.g. DRAPS x SWATS: all 12 readings are words
w. magic speller (words in a magic-square arrangement whose letters in every row and column together spell the same target)
[46-138]
e.g. Bud who? A Centrism / Narcism Debut How / ET Inchworms Baud: every line transposes to NORWICH BUMSTEAD
x. word graph (letters as nodes of a planar, king's-move or 3-D lattice graph in which a whole word set can be traced; S-,
K- and 3D-graphability) [28-3,28-142]
e.g. ZERO through TWELVE all traced in one 3-D (stacked-tetrahedron) letter graph
e.g. SPECTROHELIOKINEMATOGRAPHS is S-graphable but not K- or 3D-graphable
word squares [16-231]
a. simple [8-67,195,11-36,12-90,154,216,13-30,86,212,18-195,23-40,152,195]
i. progressive word square (each word is the one before minus its first letter plus a new last letter)
[1-154,20-47]
e.g. ZAG / AGE / GEM
e.g. SPUR / PURE / UREA / REAL
ii. tautonymic word square (square of tautonyms, so that its quadrants repeat) [6-151,6-248,7-37]
e.g. RABBIRABBI / ASAILASAIL / BASSABASSA / BISONBISON / ILANGILANG, then the five rows again
iii. knight's-tour word square (word square whose letters read along a knight's tour also spell words) [49-139]
e.g. 5x5 double square whose knight's-tour reading gives COLES, ERICA, MALTS, ERECT, EGEST
iv. nested word square (word square whose sub-blocks are also word squares: a 5x5 holding four 4x4 and nine 3x3
squares) [27-28]
e.g. near miss: DAMAN / ANANA / MALAR / ANANA / NARAS (sub-squares nest, but ANANA repeats)
v. set square (word square all of whose words come from one subject category) [23-101]
e.g. ALN / LEE / TAW: rows and columns ALN, LEE, TAW, ALT, LEA, NEW, all English rivers
vi. word-square support (expected number of random n-letter words needed to form one square), incl. commonest
(minimax-frequency) squares and base-word quality [25-67,25-70,26-5,26-99,26-183,29-80,30-154]
e.g. support about 15, 21, 68 and 455 words for squares of sizes 2 to 5
e.g. 153 squares from 298 common 4-letter words
b. double [8-67,9-80,151,13-4,195,14-13,25,121,153,15-70,23-216]
i. word-crossed grid (each cell takes one letter of a row word and one of a column word, every pair forming a
two-letter word) [14-67,14-74]
e.g. rows LOT / GAS / PER crossed with column words so that every cell is a two-letter word
c. compound [14-74,152,16-110,214,17-30]
d. reversible [9-199,12-195,13-11,17,14-210,213,15-16]
e. diagonal [14-213,15-233,16-26]
i. all-diagonal and pandiagonal (every diagonal, broken ones included, is a word), largest
[39-164,39-167,39-240,39-245,39-268,40-293,41-79]
e.g. SUMS / USED / MEAL / SDLP: diagonals SEES, SSAP, PASS
e.g. largest: all-diagonal 7-squares from the OED; 8-squares need place names; no 9-square found
f. spiral [15-233,16-26,93]
g. triangular tiles [16-32]
h. hexagonal tiles [13-124,151]
i. rug words [13-182,213]
j. cubes [9-3,11-156,12-76]
k. state abbreviations [23-53]
l. latin [23-226]
m. transposal square (every row and column transposes to a word) [2-58,12-240,13-72,26-90,32-195,35-68]
e.g. MAN / HWO / IST: rows man, who, its; columns him, was, not
n. heterogrammic word square (no letter repeated), largest [13-30,39-176,40-96,189,41-14]
e.g. SAD / PRO / YET (9 letters)
e.g. CYST / OPAH / RIMU / FLED (16 letters; YPIL in Web2)
e.g. WHICK / ROBYN / AFIVE / MUZED / PLATS (22 letters)
i. pangrammatic word square (word square containing all 26 letters; most different letters in a square) [26-86]
e.g. Grant's 6x6 FJORCK / LUVIAN / ADEPTI / GERMAL / ... uses 23 letters (no Q, X, Z)
o. magic word square (letter values in rows, columns and diagonals sum alike) [29-235,30-119,33-83,37-8,38-76,282,45-135]
e.g. TO ME IN RA LU / AN UR LO ET MI / EL IT MA NU OR / MU NO RE LI AT / RI LA UT OM NE
p. inversion square (rows read forward, columns upward) [23-143,33-54,33-57]
e.g. ALERT / MINER / ORATE / RELAX / APPLE: columns read upward AROMA, PERIL, PLANE, LATER, EXERT
q. word rectangle, largest [34-234,40-319,41-251,41-252]
e.g. French 9x8: DECROCHES/ECOEURANT/RONFLANTE/ATTRISTER/PARAPHERA/EMACIERAS/REITERAIS/ASSENASSE
r. non-square word forms (pyramid, diamond, half-square, windmill, star) [6-149,40-70,TJ7-13,TJ7-16,TJ8-70]
e.g. ramp: GROSS / EARED / FIBER / SUMOS / MOCHA, each shifted one; columns RE OAF SRIS SEBUM DEMO ROC SH
e.g. Peterson ramp of 9-letter rows from ROOSEVELT to CLEVELAND
s. hollow squares, lattices and sentence squares [1-225,3-215,35-255,36-17,137,37-30]
e.g. sentence square rows: SEVEN YOUNG CRAZY MAIDS SHALL SMART / YOUNG BRAVE IDEAS MOVED ALERT MALES / ...
i. multi-letter-cell square (word square whose cells hold letter groups or whole words) [12-47]
e.g. SH ED / ED IT: rows and columns SHED, EDIT
t. word ladder square (every row and column is a word ladder) [31-248]
e.g. FAN PAN PEN PET / FIN PIN PUN PUT / FIG PIG PUG PUS / DIG BIG BUG BUS
u. word-shift square (rows are alphabet shifts of one another) [40-149]
e.g. LAP / APE / PET (each row the previous one shifted 15 letters)
e.g. HER / EMU / RUT shifted 10 => ROB / OWE / BED
v. bilingual word square [10-23,42-150]
e.g. VERGER / ECARTE / RADIAL / GRILLE / ETALON / RELENT (French and English)
w. invertible word square (turned upside down forms another square) [44-300]
e.g. asea / Neap / save / ales, upside down: sale / ares / dean / ease
x. hypersolid word forms (word tesseracts and beyond) [4-147,202,42-283,43-14]
e.g. 3x3x3x3 tesseract, first cube: FOG OBI GIG / ACE CAR ERA / ATE THE EEL
y. word sudoku (sudoku of letters whose rows or regions spell words) [38-266,40-30,88,194,47-83,WW52.1-73]
e.g. sudoku on AFHIORSTZ whose grid contains ROSS, FAITH, SHORTZ
i. sudopang (sudoku grid holding the 26 letters plus hyphen three times each, every band of three rows and columns
pangrammatic) [48-56]
e.g. top band: cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz
z. minimum-letter word square (fewest distinct letters in an n x n double word square) [5-104,5-168]
e.g. BARB / AREA / RIAL / EARL (6 letters)
subtransposal list, longest [2-24,12-218,23-109]word girders, longest [L159,9-150,23-50,109]
a. word girder ladder and ring (chain of words in which each adjacent pair is a word girder) [23-50]
e.g. CITY-TANS-LYSE-PORT-MULL-DEED-BRAG-FLOW
e.g. ring ROPE-PART-MULL-DEED-BINS
shortest common supersequence (shortest string containing every word of a list as a subsequence) [34-157,34-228,34-231,35-146,37-118,37-121,38-21,38-208]
e.g. ONE, TWO, THREE in THRWONEE (8)
e.g. the nine planets in MNVESARCPJLUPITHURYOANUSER (26)
a. shortest word containing the letters of several given words (letters reusable across words, order free; e.g. state names
hidden in one word), shortest [49-255,49-287,50-11]
e.g. PARACME for CAP, MAP, AREA
e.g. HOODIA for IDAHO, OHIO; HAIRWOOD for IDAHO, IOWA, OHIO
positional word list (word with each letter A-Z at the centre, both flanking halves also words) [11-124,11-191,11-214,11-232,12-52]
e.g. bugaboo (bug-A-boo); carport (car-P-ort); sunspot (sun-S-pot)
tautogram (every word begins with the same letter) [33-128,33-187,35-136,35-246,38-158,38-184,TJ3-14,TJ3-76,TJ3-87,IN1-15,IN5-20,WW51.3-90,WW51.4-103]
e.g. Warm weather, Walter! Welcome warm weather! We were wishing winter would wane
e.g. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
a. end-letter tautogram (every word of a sentence ends with the same letter) [48-238]
e.g. Dartmouth frosh clash with Pittsburgh church parish, clinch fifth triumph
acrostic (initial letters of lines spell a word), incl. double acrostic and telestich [1-53,7-199,228,8-20,23-137,28-202,34-267,299,36-200,38-105,39-46,205,40-6,43-125,169,245,TJ1-8,TJ3-87,TJ6-25]
e.g. Carroll's "A boat beneath a sunny sky": line initials spell ALICE PLEASANCE LIDDELL
e.g. Schwarzenegger's 2009 veto letter: line initials spell I FUCK YOU
a. accidental acrostic (longest word spelled by the initials of consecutive lines of a published text) [12-113]
e.g. TIGHT, in a Dorothy Sayers story
b. acro-equation (definition of a set written in initials only, to be decoded) [11-239,12-242]
e.g. S+M+T+W+T+F+S = W (days of the week); R+O+Y+G+B+I+V = S (spectrum)
c. automynorcagram (text whose word initials spell out the text itself) [8-157,8-219,9-17,13-203]
e.g. "Midnight intombed December's naked icebound gulf. Haggard, tired ..." (initials MIDNIGHT ...)
d. convertible acrostic (the same words relineated give a second poem with its own acrostic) [2-159,3-203]
e.g. Lindon: acrostic CATS CATS CATS CATS, relined: CHASE 'EM, SCAMP, GO ON!
e. mnemonic (phrase whose initials or words encode a list or rule: Roy G. Biv)
[10-115,12-94,17-97,17-162,18-171,20-218,21-43]
e.g. Roy G. Biv (rainbow colors); FACE (treble-clef spaces)
e.g. Barbara, Celarent, Darii, Ferio (medieval syllogism mnemonic)
f. abecedarius or alphabet poem (successive lines or stanzas begin with A to Z), incl. alphabetic mesostic and line-end
telestich [28-131,28-202]
e.g. A is the anchor ... Z is the zany
pilish (successive word lengths give the digits of pi) [32-32,38-14,39-257,41-297,42-43,42-225,42-258,43-14,43-102,43-140,44-167,TJ3-14,TJ5-10,TJ8-30,TJ11-40,IN4-41,IN5-34]
e.g. How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics
e.g. (word lengths 3.14159265358979)
Kruskal count (counting on by word lengths, every start converges on the same word) [31-175,32-156,32-215,32-267,33-291,40-3,41-309]homoliteral and heteroliteral text (successive words always, or never, share a letter) [6-59,7-50,51,8-110,9-96,231,33-291,35-262]
e.g. homoliteral: Sam saw Wanda and Dan (each word shares a letter with the next)
e.g. heteroliteral: Big fat cows run (no two adjacent words share a letter)
every word shares a feature (same bigram, trigram, doubled letter or vowel pair) [32-215,33-203,34-159,35-56,35-145,35-157,WW51.2-7,WW53.2-18,WW53.3-18,WW53.3-72]
e.g. The thin thief threw thirty thistles (every word contains TH)
a. isomorphic text (every word of a sentence has the same letter pattern) [6-37]
e.g. cannulate kittenish cannibals vaccinate dissocial harridans
e.g. nymphlike neighbors anxiously savouring unmatched royalties
shrinking words (each word a subsequence of the one before) [35-292,36-46,36-137]
e.g. startling > starling > string > sting > sing > sin > in > I
a. poemutation (poem whose later lines are drawn, letters in order, from the letters of the first line) [7-222]
e.g. first line "The medium is the message" yields MESS, AGE, SAGE (Suhor)
boustrophedon text (alternate lines written backwards) [31-192]
e.g. THE QUICK BROWN FOX / GOD YZAL EHT REVO SPMUJ
fixed-length text (every word has the same number of letters) [3-41,19-202,20-208]
e.g. Lone loon sits upon thin nest
letter-subsequence message (messages spelled by lighting subsets of a fixed letter string) [12-242]
e.g. EAT AT EWARTS > EAT WARTS (letters lit in order)
stutter (one letter group repeated several times across word boundaries: bringing in ginger) [14-98,15-13]
e.g. VicTOR TORTORelli; brINGING IN GINGer
e.g. Bahama Mama, Ma'm - am amazed
wordcycle (a word written over and over and re-divided into a sentence) [19-170]
e.g. Open, o pen, ope. Nope, no pen open.
e.g. Banana ban: a nab, Ana, nab a nana.
embedded-string story (narrative crammed with words containing a given letter string or spelling exception) [28-56,28-120]
e.g. ANT story: Anthony Santiago from Antwerp ...
Entire Wordreversal pair (reverse the letters in a word to form another word) [L38,288,14-93,151,218,37-21]
a. longest
common words: desserts & stressed (8)
uncommon words: deifieder & redeified (9-t)
uncommon words: redeliver & revileder (9-t)
uncommon words: desineres & serenised (9-t)
uncommon words: resolutes & setuloser (9-t)
b. inside-out word pair (reverse letters in word halves and/or reverse word halves), longest
e.g., CITRUS => RUSTIC, CIRCLE => CLERIC, LEMONS => MELONS
common words: backward & drawback (8-t)
common words: downward & drawdown (8-t)
common words: headroom & moorhead (8-t)
common words: alerting & relating (8-t)
common words: presents & serpents (8-t)
common words: brawlers & warblers (8-t)
common words: brawling & warbling (8-t)
uncommon words: aminations & animations (10-t)
uncommon words: aceraceaes & arecaceaes (10-t)
uncommon words: aceraceous & arecaceous (10-t)
uncommon words: amorallest & aromallest (10-t)
uncommon words: allecteder & cellateder (10-t)
uncommon words: apoponaces & opopanaces (10-t)
... and 24 others
c. reversible heterogram (isogram whose reversal is also a word), longest [31-260]
common words: diaper & repaid
common words: spacer & recaps
uncommon words: stinker & reknits
d. alphabet reversal pairs (AxxxZ and ZxxxA, BxxxY and YxxxB, ...) [39-19]
common words: draw & ward
common words: gnat & tang
uncommon words: bray & yarb
e. pairagram and pairindrome (phrase pairing a word with its transposal or reversal) [27-232,31-212,40-110,41-59,102,176]
e.g. smug tan mustang; leaf flea; toga goat
e.g. stressed desserts
i. logical configuration (meaningful phrase pairing a word with itself plus or minus one letter) [49-18,47-289]
e.g. old gold, lucky Lucy, gaunt aunt
f. bilingual reversal (a word in one language reversed is a word in another) [TJ10-40]
e.g. nier & rein (Dutch & French, liver); dop & pod (Dutch & English); knik & kink
e.g. Evoles ut ira breve nefas sit; regna! => Anger? 'Tis safe never. Bar it! Use love.
g. ananym (name spelled as the reversal of a real name; names whose reversals are words) [11-19,11-89]
e.g. Harpo (Productions) from Oprah; Llareggub from "bugger all"
h. back slang (words spoken or written reversed as a secret language) [3-215]
e.g. yob for boy; riah for hair
i. circular palindrome and circular reversal (word read around a circle from any starting letter, forward or backward)
[27-167,26-237,30-115]
e.g. STIFLE read backward around a circle gives ITSELF
e.g. PREMATURE read backward around a circle gives PERU TAMER
uncommon word: sensuousnesses
deletion [L110,9-161,23-190]
a. beheadment (delete first letter in a word to form another word)
i. longest [6-198,13-15]
common words: preservationists => reservationists (16)
uncommon words: methyldichloroarsine => ethyldichloroarsine (20-t)
uncommon words: premisrepresentation => remisrepresentation (20-t)
phrases: a distinction without a difference => distinction without a difference (30)
ii. longest progressive [6-198,12-154]
common words: stabled => tabled => abled => bled => led => ed => d (7)
uncommon words: prescribes => rescribes => escribes => scribes => cribes => ribes => ibes => bes => es => s
(10-t)
uncommon words: restabling => establing => stabling => tabling => abling => bling => ling => ing => ng => g
(10-t)
uncommon words: hegemonies => egemonies => gemonies => emonies => monies => onies => nies => ies => es => s
(10-t)
uncommon words: estreating => streating => treating => reating => eating => ating => ting => ing => ng => g
(10-t)
uncommon words: oestrouses => estrouses => strouses => trouses => rouses => ouses => uses => ses => es => s
(10-t)
uncommon words: tenostoses => enostoses => nostoses => ostoses => stoses => toses => oses => ses => es => s
(10-t)
uncommon words: anotherest => notherest => otherest => therest => herest => erest => rest => est => st => t
(10-t)
iii. longest double progressive [6-198,12-154]
common words: immigrants => migrants => grants => ants => ts (10)
uncommon words: unindividuallest => individuallest => dividuallest => viduallest => duallest => allest =>
lest => st (16)
iv. longest double [7-168,9-62]
common words: deinstitutionalization => institutionalization (22)
uncommon words: deinstitutionalizations => institutionalizations (23-t)
uncommon words: indistinguishablenesses => distinguishablenesses (23-t)
uncommon words: reinstitutionalizations => institutionalizations (23-t)
uncommon words: undistinguishablenesses => distinguishablenesses (23-t)
phrases: incomplete atrioventricular dissociation => complete atrioventricular dissociation (38-t)
phrases: to tell say, speak the truth and shame the devil => tell say, speak the truth and shame the devil
(38-t)
v. for each letter, longest [6-88,181,198,213,13-159,14-219,15-155,16-96,220,17-85,23-214]
vi. n-progressive, longest [6-198]
b. curtailment (delete last letter in a word to form another word)
i. longest progressive [7-168,9-62,11-152]
common words: lapsers => lapser => lapse => laps => lap => la => l (7-t)
common words: martens => marten => marte => mart => mar => ma => m (7-t)
common words: menders => mender => mende => mend => men => me => m (7-t)
common words: parsecs => parsec => parse => pars => par => pa => p (7-t)
common words: parsees => parsee => parse => pars => par => pa => p (7-t)
common words: parsers => parser => parse => pars => par => pa => p (7-t)
common words: passers => passer => passe => pass => pas => pa => p (7-t)
common words: pastels => pastel => paste => past => pas => pa => p (7-t)
uncommon words: terrestrialises => terrestrialise => terrestrialis => terrestriali => terrestrial =>
terrestria => terrestri => terrestr => terrest => terres => terre => terr => ter => te => t
(15-t)
uncommon words: terrestrialised => terrestrialise => terrestrialis => terrestriali => terrestrial =>
terrestria => terrestri => terrestr => terrest => terres => terre => terr => ter => te => t
(15-t)
uncommon words: terrestrialisms => terrestrialism => terrestrialis => terrestriali => terrestrial =>
terrestria => terrestri => terrestr => terrest => terres => terre => terr => ter => te => t
(15-t)
hyphenated words: ecclesiastically => ecclesiasticall => ecclesiastical => ecclesiastica => ecclesiastic =>
ecclesiasti => ecclesiast => ecclesias => ecclesia => ecclesi- => eccles => eccle => eccl
=> ecc => ec => e (16)
ii. longest double progressive [9-62]
common words: canonically => canonical => canonic => canon => can => c (11-t)
common words: contentedly => contented => content => conte => con => c (11-t)
uncommon words: intransitiviziner => intransitivizin => intransitiviz => intransitiv => intransit => intrans
=> intra => int => i (17)
iii. longest nontrivial [7-168,9-62]
common words: bougainvillea => bougainville (13-t)
common words: epiphenomenal => epiphenomena (13-t)
common words: hypochondriac => hypochondria (13-t)
common words: mitochondrial => mitochondria (13-t)
common words: pennsylvanian => pennsylvania (13-t)
common words: philadelphian => philadelphia (13-t)
common words: steeplechaser => steeplechase (13-t)
common words: underachiever => underachieve (13-t)
uncommon words: historicophilosophical => historicophilosophica (22-t)
uncommon words: phenylethylmalonylurea => phenylethylmalonylure (22-t)
uncommon words: representationalissest => representationalisses (22-t)
uncommon words: sternocleidomastoidest => sternocleidomastoides (22-t)
phrases: plasma thromboplastin factor B => plasma thromboplastin factor (27)
hyphenated phrases: human T-cell lymphotropic virus I => human T-cell lymphotropic virus (28)
iv. longest double [7-168,9-62]
common words: disadvantageousnesses => disadvantageousness (21-t)
common words: straightforwardnesses => straightforwardness (21-t)
uncommon words: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosises =>
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (47)
v. gender curtailment (a boy's name minus its last letter is a girl's name) [33-39]
e.g. Norma(n), Fran(k), Julia(n), Olive(r), Brenda(n)
c. delete letter from any position to form another word
i. longest progressive
common words: colonizers => colonizes => colonies => colones => clones => cones => ones => one => ne => n
(10-t)
common words: personages => personage => personae => persona => person => peron => peon => eon => on => n
(10-t)
uncommon words: determinabliest => determinablest => eterminablest => terminablest => terminables =>
terminales => terminals => terminal => termina => ermina => emina => mina => ina => na => a
(15-t)
uncommon words: terrestrialises => terrestrialies => terrestrialis => terrestrials => terrestrial =>
terrestria => terrestri => terrestr => terrest => terest => erest => rest => est => st => t
(15-t)
uncommon words: terrestrialised => terrestrialise => terrestrialis => terrestrials => terrestrial =>
terrestria => terrestri => terrestr => terrest => terest => erest => rest => est => st => t
(15-t)
uncommon words: terrestrialisms => terrestrialism => terrestrialis => terrestrials => terrestrial =>
terrestria => terrestri => terrestr => terrest => terest => erest => rest => est => st => t
(15-t)
uncommon words: terrestrializes => terrestrialies => terrestrialis => terrestrials => terrestrial =>
terrestria => terrestri => terrestr => terrest => terest => erest => rest => est => st => t
(15-t)
uncommon words: transversannest => transversanest => transversaest => transversest => transverses =>
transveres => transvers => transves => transes => ranses => anses => ases => ses => es => s
(15-t)
... and 3 others
hyphenated words: ecclesiastically => ecclesiasticall => ecclesiastical => ecclesiastica => ecclesiastic =>
ecclesiasti => ecclesiast => ecclesias => ecclesia => ecclesi- => eccles => ecces => eces
=> ces => es => s (16)
ii. longest nontrivial
iii. longest double deletion
iv. extraction chain (progressive one-letter deletion down to two letters, the removed letters spelling a word in
order) [48-186]
e.g. agate gate ate at (AGE); madam adam dam am (MAD)
d. alternating terminal elision (alternate between deleting first and last letters to form a word list), longest [8-87]
common words: cloners => cloner => loner => lone => one => on => n (7-t)
common words: craters => crater => rater => rate => ate => at => t (7-t)
common words: graters => grater => rater => rate => ate => at => t (7-t)
common words: stoners => stoner => toner => tone => one => on => n (7-t)
common words: slowest => lowest => lowes => owes => owe => we => w (7-t)
uncommon words: laceratest => lacerates => acerates => acerate => cerate => cerat => erat => era => ra => r (10-t)
uncommon words: maceratest => macerates => acerates => acerate => cerate => cerat => erat => era => ra => r (10-t)
uncommon words: nacarinest => acarinest => acarines => carines => carine => arine => arin => rin => ri => i (10-t)
uncommon words: prorations => rorations => roration => oration => oratio => ratio => rati => ati => at => t (10-t)
uncommon words: sheatherys => sheathery => heathery => heather => eather => eathe => athe => ath => th => t (10-t)
uncommon words: estrousest => estrouses => strouses => strouse => trouse => trous => rous => rou => ou => o (10-t)
... and 2 others
e. terminal elision (delete first and last letters to form another word)
i. longest [L118]
common words: gratifications => ratification (14-t)
common words: preoccupations => reoccupation (14-t)
common words: revolutionists => evolutionist (14-t)
uncommon words: prestandardizations => restandardization (19-t)
uncommon words: preacknowledgements => reacknowledgement (19-t)
uncommon words: platitudinarianisms => latitudinarianism (19-t)
uncommon words: prestandardisations => restandardisation (19-t)
phrases: asexual reproductions => sexual reproduction (20-t)
phrases: ionization potentials => onization potential (20-t)
ii. longest progressive [L118]
common words: amended => mende => end => n (7-t)
common words: aerator => erato => rat => a (7-t)
common words: amassed => masse => ass => s (7-t)
common words: amasses => masse => ass => s (7-t)
common words: ashamed => shame => ham => a (7-t)
common words: bashers => asher => she => h (7-t)
common words: beaters => eater => ate => t (7-t)
common words: astarte => start => tar => a (7-t)
common words: bothers => other => the => h (7-t)
... and 82 others
uncommon words: levitativer => evitative => vitativ => itati => tat => a (11)
f. dismembered (delete either first or last letters to form words) [7-168,213,8-87,174]
i. longest
common words: preservationists : reservationists & preservationist (16)
uncommon words: prestandardizations : restandardizations & prestandardization (19-t)
uncommon words: preacknowledgements : reacknowledgements & preacknowledgement (19-t)
uncommon words: platitudinarianisms : latitudinarianisms & platitudinarianism (19-t)
uncommon words: prestandardisations : restandardisations & prestandardisation (19-t)
ii. word torture or progressive dismemberment (word all of whose contiguous subsequences are words), longest
[7-168,213,8-87,174]
common words: fads : ads & fad & ad & ds & fa (4-t)
common words: lads : ads & lad & ad & ds & la (4-t)
common words: done : don & one & do & ne & on (4-t)
common words: ados : ado & dos & ad & do & os (4-t)
common words: pads : ads & pad & ad & ds & pa (4-t)
common words: fire : fir & ire & fi & ir & re (4-t)
common words: lass : ass & las & as & la & ss (4-t)
common words: mass : ass & mas & as & ma & ss (4-t)
common words: fits : fit & its & fi & it & ts (4-t)
... and 5 others
uncommon words: tamarines : amarines & tamarine & amarine & marines & tamarin & amarin & arines & marine &
tamari & amari & arine & marin & rines & tamar & amar & arin & ines & mari & rine & tama &
ama & ari & ine & mar & nes & rin & tam & am & ar & es & in & ma & ne & ri & ta (9)
iii. word with no contiguous subsequence that is a word, longest
uncommon words: jfk (3-t)
uncommon words: kkk (3-t)
iv. word with no subsequence that is a word, longest
common words: ad (2-t)
common words: ah (2-t)
common words: am (2-t)
common words: an (2-t)
common words: as (2-t)
common words: at (2-t)
common words: ax (2-t)
common words: be (2-t)
common words: bs (2-t)
... and 66 others
uncommon words: jfk (3-t)
uncommon words: kkk (3-t)
g. delete consecutively repeated letters to form a word, longest
common words: interviewees => interviews (12)
uncommon words: undistinguishableness => undistinguishablene (21)
phrases: ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer => ask a silly question and you get a silly answer (40)
h. letter subtraction (delete all copies of letter in a word to form another word)
i. longest
common words: adventuress => adventure (11-t)
common words: hairinesses => harnesses (11-t)
common words: smatterings => mattering (11-t)
common words: unsheathing => unseating (11-t)
common words: worldliness => wordiness (11-t)
uncommon words: unconstitutionallest => unconstitutionaest (20)
phrases: chenodesoxycholic acids => chenodeoxycholic acid (22-t)
phrases: desoxyribonucleic acids => deoxyribonucleic acid (22-t)
phrases: knights grand commanders => knight grand commander (22-t)
phrases: le chatelier's principles => le chatelier principle (22-t)
ii. longest progressive [L116,6-210,23-131,216]
common words: bennett => benne => bee => b (7-t)
common words: brenner => benne => bee => b (7-t)
common words: erasers => eases => ass => a (7-t)
common words: titbits => ibis => bs (7-t)
uncommon words: knickyknacky => knickknack => nicnac => nina => ia (12)
iii. each letter, each position [23-229]
i. charitable (delete any letter to form another word) [4-171,5-53,109,8-109,M88]
i. longest
common words: shoots : hoots & soots & shots & shots & shoos & shoot (6)
uncommon words: greists : reists & geists & grists & grests & greits & greiss & greist (7-t)
uncommon words: boundes : oundes & bundes & bondes & boudes & bounes & bounds & bounde (7-t)
uncommon words: roondes : oondes & rondes & rondes & roodes & roones & roonds & roonde (7-t)
uncommon words: shoopes : hoopes & soopes & shopes & shopes & shooes & shoops & shoope (7-t)
uncommon words: shoores : hoores & soores & shores & shores & shooes & shoors & shoore (7-t)
uncommon words: staines : taines & saines & stines & stanes & staies & stains & staine (7-t)
... and 8 others
ii. progressive charitable (all contiguous and non-contiguous subsequences are words), longest
common words: ads : ads & ad & as & ds (3-t)
common words: fas : fas & as & fa & fs (3-t)
common words: has : has & as & ha & hs (3-t)
common words: his : his & hi & hs & is (3-t)
common words: ill : ill & il & ll (3-t)
common words: dos : dos & do & ds & os (3-t)
common words: gos : gos & go & gs & os (3-t)
common words: ass : ass & as & ss (3-t)
common words: its : its & is & it & ts (3-t)
... and 10 others
uncommon words: xxxviii : xxxviii & xxviii & xxxiii & xxxvii & xviii & xxiii & xxvii & xxxii & xxxvi &
viii & xiii & xvii & xxii & xxvi & xxxi & xxxv & iii & vii & xii & xvi & xxi & xxv & xxx &
ii & vi & xi & xv & xx (7)
j. stingy (cannot delete any letter to form another word), shortest [5-54,109,11-54]
common words: fuze (4-t)
common words: fuzz (4-t)
common words: jazz (4-t)
common words: razz (4-t)
uncommon words: jfk (3-t)
uncommon words: kkk (3-t)
k. delete-reverse [Neil Picciotto]
i. longest
common words: retriever => reverter (9)
uncommon words: tattarrattats => tattarrattat (13)
ii. longest progressive
common words: redeems => seeder => redes => seer => res => er => r (7-t)
common words: redness => sender => redes => seer => res => er => r (7-t)
common words: redcaps => spacer => recap => pace => cap => pa => a (7-t)
common words: spacers => recaps => space => caps => sac => cs => s (7-t)
common words: spacier => recaps => space => caps => sac => cs => s (7-t)
common words: streams => smarts => trams => mart => ram => ma => a (7-t)
common words: spirits => strips => spirt => trip => pit => ti => i (7-t)
common words: seaport => tropes => sport => tops => pot => to => o (7-t)
uncommon words: lacinesses => essenical => laciness => senical => laines => senil => line => eni => in => n
(10)
l. sliding window (word that contains other words that first increase and then decrease in length), longest
e.g., PAST = P & PA & PAS & PAST & AST & ST & T
common words: fads : fa & fad & fads & ads & ds (4-t)
common words: lads : la & lad & lads & ads & ds (4-t)
common words: done : do & don & done & one & ne (4-t)
common words: ados : ad & ado & ados & dos & os (4-t)
common words: fare : fa & far & fare & are & re (4-t)
common words: fire : fi & fir & fire & ire & re (4-t)
common words: mare : ma & mar & mare & are & re (4-t)
common words: lass : la & las & lass & ass & ss (4-t)
common words: fits : fi & fit & fits & its & ts (4-t)
... and 11 others
uncommon words: romaniest : ro & rom & roma & roman & romani & romanie & romanies & romaniest & omaniest & maniest &
aniest & niest & iest & est & st (9-t)
uncommon words: tamarines : ta & tam & tama & tamar & tamari & tamarin & tamarine & tamarines & amarines & marines &
arines & rines & ines & nes & es (9-t)
uncommon words: sheathers : sh & she & shea & sheat & sheath & sheathe & sheather & sheathers & heathers & eathers &
athers & thers & hers & ers & rs (9-t)
m. isodeletion (delete letter to form a word with the same letter pattern as another word)
i. longest well-mixed
common words: phenylketonurics => cytomegalovirus (16)
uncommon words: bishydroxycoumarin => bacteriohemolysin (18-t)
uncommon words: nonintrospectively => cricoarytenoideus (18-t)
uncommon words: monographicalliest => podobranchiallest (18-t)
uncommon words: nomographicalliest => podobranchiallest (18-t)
phrases: bat mitzvah or bat mizvah => launchpad or launch pad (21)
ii. longest not well-mixed
common words: chlorofluorocarbon & chlorofluorocarbons (19-t)
common words: oversimplification & oversimplifications (19-t)
uncommon words: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane & dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes (32)
phrases: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate & nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphates (41-t)
phrases: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation & transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulations (41-t)
hyphenated phrases: granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor & granulocyte-macrophage
colony-stimulating factors (45)
iii. longest progressive
common words: acknowledgements => acknowledgments => acknowledgment => grandiloquent => ambidextrous =>
forecasting => authorizes => outranked => gunwales => languor => thrace => beryl => true =>
thy => lo => m (16-t)
common words: phenylketonurics => cytomegalovirus => ambidextrously => unproblematic => ambidextrous =>
forecasting => authorizes => outranked => gunwales => languor => thrace => beryl => true =>
thy => lo => m (16-t)
uncommon words: anthropomorphitizeed => anthropomorphitizes => anthropomorphitize => anthropomorphites =>
anthropomorphize => anthropomorphic => anthroposophic => hyaloiditides => doublechecks =>
normalities => authorizes => outranked => gunwales => languor => thrace => beryl => true =>
thy => lo => m (20-t)
uncommon words: hydrotherapeuticians => hydrotherapeutician => hydrotherapeutical => hydrotherapeutics =>
hydrotherapeutic => cryptocephalous => archbishopling => ventriloquism => ambidextrous =>
forecasting => authorizes => outranked => gunwales => languor => thrace => beryl => true =>
thy => lo => m (20-t)
uncommon words: incomprehensiveliest => incomprehensibliest => incomprehensiblest => incomprehensibles =>
incomprehensible => uncomprehensive => polyandriouser => dispurveyance => countrysides =>
pitchblende => juxtaposes => thickness => gunwales => languor => thrace => beryl => true =>
thy => lo => m (20-t)
n. block deletion (removing an inner word, palindrome or tautonym leaves a word) [24-121,31-128,WW52.4-59]
e.g. ca(member)t, re(inin)g, ch(illi)est, b(aa)ing
i. successive word deletion (excise an inner word, close up, repeat: pilgrimage, rim, gag, pile), most words
[7-177,7-238,8-112,8-185,9-172]
e.g. PILGRIMAGE: delete RIM, then GAG, leaving PILE
ii. interrupted pattern removal (removing a scattered palindromic or tautonymic letter subsequence leaves a word)
[48-118]
e.g. again = gin + AA; jimjams = imams + JJ; divide = vie + DID
o. alphabetic-pair deletion (removing two alphabet-neighbour letters leaves a word) [42-282,WW52.4-75]
e.g. demand - MN > dead; squirt - QR > suit
p. name deletion (removing a forename leaves a word) [42-69,42-149,42-315]
e.g. bartender - ART > bender; billboard - BILL > board
q. common-letter removal (deleting the letters two words share leaves a word) [WW52.2-73]
e.g. tea time > aim; main line > male
r. broken-sign reading (sign that has lost letters and reads as another message) [16-174]
e.g. GENITAL ORATORY for URINOGENITAL LABORATORY; RAPIST for THERAPIST
s. letter-class deletion (removing all letters of one class, e.g. dotted, curved or Roman-numeral letters, leaves a word)
[49-18]
e.g. jihad > had, Fijian > fan, join > on (dotted letters removed)
t. letter-deletion acrostic (for each length, words deletable at each successive position; the deleted letters spell a
word) [23-190,23-229]
e.g. EPOXY: Erode sPlit flOat twiXt earlY
u. like-pair deletion (removing both letters of a repeated pair, adjacent or separated, or of several doubled pairs leaves
a word) [50-199,50-209]
e.g. RACCOON - CCOO = RAN; GRUDGE = RUDE; VALVE = ALE
v. phrase reduction (every word of a phrase loses one letter to give another phrase; sometimes repeated) [49-143]
e.g. FAST RATE > FAT RAT
e.g. THIS CART'S SOLID > HIS CAT'S SOLD > IS CAT OLD?
w. compressed text (letters removed by a rule, still readable: proverbs from their initials, disemvowelled signs)
[15-119,15-210,15-254]
e.g. A s i t s n = A stitch in time saves nine
e.g. SLW CHLDRN (slow, children) disemvowelled sign
x. affix-removal text (passage whose every word carries one prefix and still reads when the prefix is removed) [22-44]
e.g. Unworldly unreason unmasks unknown unconcerns ... (still reads with every un- removed)
insertion [9-161]
a. hydration (more than one way to add letter to front to form another word), longest [6-198]
common words: enunciation : denunciation & renunciation (0.11)
uncommon words: hereafterwardest : thereafterwardest & whereafterwardest (0.16)
b. hospitable (insert letter anywhere to form another word), longest [4-171,5-53,23-134,M88]
uncommon words: bayles : abayles & blayles & babyles & baylles & baylles & bayless & bayless (6-t)
uncommon words: abases : cabases & abbases & abbases & abaises & abashes & abasers & abasest (6-t)
uncommon words: cheres : acheres & coheres & chaeres & cheares & cheries & cherems & cherest (6-t)
uncommon words: carine : acarine & clarine & caprine & carbine & cariune & carinae & carines (6-t)
uncommon words: coldes : acoldes & choldes & colldes & coledes & coldies & coldens & coldest (6-t)
uncommon words: copies : ocopies & coopies & compies & coppies & copices & copiers & copiest (6-t)
... and 27 others
c. hostile (cannot insert letter anywhere to form word), shortest length > 3 [5-54,109,11-54]
common words: swum (4)
d. adding doubles (insert a doubled letter, then split between the doubles into two words) [44-101]
e.g. LONE + OO > LOOONE > LOO + ONE
e. split-and-prefix (word split in two and one letter prefixed to each part gives a phrase) [WW52.4-33]
e.g. ADEN + M, M = MAD MEN
e.g. EVENING + S, S = SEVEN SING
f. alphabetic insertion (each of the 26 letters inserted at the same place gives a word), incl. palindromic xAx ... xZx
[15-208,25-162]
e.g. E_E: EAE, EBE, ECE ... EZE (25 letters found, only EOE lacking)
e.g. A_A: AJA, AKA, ALA, AMA, ANA ...
g. doubled-letter pair (a word and the word with one of its letters doubled, unrelated in meaning; the Nash one-l lama
challenge for each letter) [45-184]
uncommon words: lama & llama
e.g. lemon & Lemmon
e.g. baron & Barron
h. double hook or bookend addition (the same letter added at both ends gives a word), A-Z [48-210]
e.g. EVE + L = LEVEL
e.g. EAST + Y = YEASTY
e.g. ALLELUIA + H = HALLELUIAH
deletion and insertion [9-161]
a. charitable and hospitable, longest [5-54,109,8-109]
uncommon words: carine : arine & crine & caine & carne & carie & carin & acarine & clarine & caprine & carbine &
cariune & carinae & carines (6-t)
uncommon words: paires : aires & pires & pares & paies & pairs & paire & apaires & praires & pabires & paieres &
pairles & pairers & pairest (6-t)
uncommon words: veries : eries & vries & veies & veres & veris & verie & everies & veeries & vearies & veraies &
verites & veriers & veriest (6-t)
uncommon words: vailes : ailes & viles & vales & vaies & vails & vaile & availes & vrailes & vaniles & vailles &
vailles & vailers & vailest (6-t)
uncommon words: waries : aries & wries & waies & wares & waris & warie & awaries & wearies & wafries & warjies &
warines & wariers & wariest (6-t)
b. stingy and hostile, shortest [5-54]
common words: arroz (5-t)
common words: azusa (5-t)
common words: bonum (5-t)
common words: cheju (5-t)
common words: comfy (5-t)
common words: dubio (5-t)
common words: duddy (5-t)
common words: dufus (5-t)
common words: eppur (5-t)
... and 45 others
uncommon words: bglr (4-t)
uncommon words: bkcy (4-t)
uncommon words: bklr (4-t)
uncommon words: ccny (4-t)
uncommon words: cnpz (4-t)
uncommon words: dlvy (4-t)
... and 18 others
substitution [9-161]
a. onalosi or complete garble group (word that can have a letter changed anywhere to form another word), longest
[3-108,4-171,5-54]
common words: clink : blink & chink & clank & click & cline (5-t)
common words: frits : brits & faits & frats & frias & frith (5-t)
common words: hosta : aosta & hasta & horta & hosea & hoste (5-t)
common words: parks : barks & perks & packs & paras & parka (5-t)
common words: prato : erato & plato & preto & prado & prate (5-t)
uncommon words: cassates : lassates & cessates & causates & caseates & cassites & cassades & cassatas & cassated
(8-t)
uncommon words: palisses : malisses & pelisses & parisses & palesses & palijses & palishes & palissys & palissed
(8-t)
uncommon words: parelles : sarelles & perelles & padelles & paralles & pareiles & parelies & parellas & parelled
(8-t)
i. invariant onalosi (the same letter substituted in each position gives n words) [37-139]
e.g. SAY with P in each position: PAY, SPY, SAP
ii. friendlier word (onalosi whose replacement letters, one per position, themselves spell a word), incl.
friendliest word (the change works back from the target to the source) [30-245]
e.g. CRIMP: PRIMP, CHIMP, CRAMP, CRISP, CRIME (new letters P, H, A, S, E spell PHASE)
iii. multiple onalosi and most-neighbour word (every letter replaceable in n ways; most one-letter-substitution
neighbours for each length) [30-245]
e.g. WARE has 57 one-letter-substitution neighbours; CARES and PALES 46; SLATTERING 15
b. isolano (word that cannot have a letter changed anywhere to form another word), shortest
[2-62,3-108,4-171,12-153,13-28,30-253]
common words: abuzz (5-t)
common words: alibi (5-t)
common words: anzac (5-t)
common words: atque (5-t)
common words: awful (5-t)
common words: axial (5-t)
common words: aznar (5-t)
common words: aztec (5-t)
common words: boeuf (5-t)
... and 44 others
uncommon words: qqv (3)
c. word ladders, networks or stairs [6-67,156,9-119,20-168,22-28,76,88,141,216,23-154,31-89]
i. full vowel substitution, longest [1-156,3-48,8-190,207,9-17,11-109,12-37,22-172,216,23-92]
common words: blander & blender & blinder & blonder & blunder (7-t)
common words: patting & petting & pitting & potting & putting (7-t)
uncommon words: massinesses & messinesses & missinesses & mossinesses & mussinesses (11)
ii. full vowel including y substitution, longest [8-190,207,9-17]
uncommon words: ballies & bellies & billies & bollies & bullies & byllies (7-t)
uncommon words: happing & hepping & hipping & hopping & hupping & hypping (7-t)
uncommon words: hasting & hesting & histing & hosting & husting & hysting (7-t)
uncommon words: lanches & lenches & linches & lonches & lunches & lynches (7-t)
uncommon words: packers & peckers & pickers & pockers & puckers & pyckers (7-t)
uncommon words: romanas & romanes & romanis & romanos & romanus & romanys (7-t)
... and 5 others
iii. full vowel including y substitution, shortest > 1
uncommon words: ai & ei & ii & oi & ui & yi (2-t)
uncommon words: aa & ea & ia & oa & ua & ya (2-t)
uncommon words: ad & ed & id & od & ud & yd (2-t)
uncommon words: af & ef & if & of & uf & yf (2-t)
uncommon words: al & el & il & ol & ul & yl (2-t)
uncommon words: am & em & im & om & um & ym (2-t)
... and 26 others
iv. consecutive letter substitution, most
common words: hokey => holey => homey => honey => hooey (5)
uncommon words: aaa => aba => aca => ada => aea => afa => aga => aha => aia => aja => aka => ala => ama =>
ana => aoa => apa => aqa => ara => asa => ata => aua => ava => awa => axa => aya => aza
(26-t)
uncommon words: iai => ibi => ici => idi => iei => ifi => igi => ihi => iii => iji => iki => ili => imi =>
ini => ioi => ipi => iqi => iri => isi => iti => iui => ivi => iwi => ixi => iyi => izi
(26-t)
uncommon words: uau => ubu => ucu => udu => ueu => ufu => ugu => uhu => uiu => uju => uku => ulu => umu =>
unu => uou => upu => uqu => uru => usu => utu => uuu => uvu => uwu => uxu => uyu => uzu
(26-t)
uncommon words: ais => bis => cis => dis => eis => fis => gis => his => iis => jis => kis => lis => mis =>
nis => ois => pis => qis => ris => sis => tis => uis => vis => wis => xis => yis => zis
(26-t)
v. consecutive letter substitution, longest
common words: porting => posting => potting => pouting (7)
uncommon words: portering => postering => pottering => poutering (9-t)
uncommon words: caringest => daringest => earingest => faringest (9-t)
uncommon words: homingest => honingest => hooingest => hopingest (9-t)
uncommon words: jangleder => kangleder => langleder => mangleder (9-t)
uncommon words: squeaking => squealing => squeaming => squeaning (9-t)
phrases: viral hepatitis type A => viral hepatitis type B => viral hepatitis type C => viral hepatitis type
D => viral hepatitis type E (19-t)
phrases: viral hepatitis type B => viral hepatitis type C => viral hepatitis type D => viral hepatitis type
E (19-t)
vi. minimal-length or ideal, longest [1-26,6-160,9-212,21-103,23-22,154,28-197]
emplants => emplanes => enplanes => enplaned => unplaned => unplayed => unprayed => ungrayed => ungreyed (8)
vii. reversal, minimal length [12-44,151,153,13-26,84,122,14-90,15-16,16-164,21-103,23-91,24-45,94]
viii. minimal alphabetic or pangrammatic, nine letter [18-90,20-154,21-145,22-223]
ix. minimal alphabetic or pangrammatic, four and five letter [23-125,215]
x. garble group, most [1-165,3-144,211,4-15,6-67,156,12-217,25-102]
xi. square and root [3-122,12-217]
xii. transaddition set, most [15-151]
xiii. longest [12-36,119,152,23-154,33-209,212,284,34-41,48,120,125,131]
xiv. alphabetic substitution [15-208]
xv. substitute-letter transposals, most [17-195,18-23,220,23-109]
xvi. letter sets [11-158]
xvii. stepladder [22-180,240,23-27,24-115,36-224]
xviii. connoisseur's ladder (ideal ladder between transposals, end words related in meaning)
[34-41,34-48,34-120,34-125,34-131]
e.g. MEATS-SEATS-STATS-STETS-STEAS-STEAM
e.g. PAINS-SAINS-SPINS-SPANS-SPAIS-SPAIN
xix. meaningful or synonymous ladder (rungs read as a sentence, or are near-synonyms)
[35-53,35-192,35-197,35-289,40-31]
e.g. AIM-AID-AND-END (aim = end)
e.g. LAST LEST LIST LOST LUST (putting the best last to maintain interest)
xx. ladder variants (snakes and ladders, sliding, fragmented-letter and stepword ladders)
[23-25,29-67,32-133,32-135,32-283,33-96,33-133,33-136]
e.g. sequential snakes and ladders: COLD BOLD BALD BARD BARE CARE CORE COLE COLD
xxi. alphomic word ladder (every rung has its letters in alphabetical order) [34-139]
e.g. ACT-AFT-ART
e.g. reverse alphomic: ...TONE-SONE-RONE-ROME-ROLE-POLE-POLD-POID-POED-PLED-PIED... (30 words)
xxii. interlingual word ladder [TJ4-11,TJ4-85]
e.g. EVERYTHING -same meaning- PAN (Greek) -same sound- PAN (Spanish) -meaning- PAIN (French) = PAIN
e.g. KING - SHAH - CHAT - GATO - GATEAU - CAKE (meaning and sound alternately)
xxiii. triple word ladder phrase (each word of a phrase changes at once, each column a ladder)
[WW52.1-94,WW53.4-111]
e.g. VAN LED WAY / JAN WED RAY / IAN FED MAY
e.g. THE HOT TIP / TOE HIT TAP / TIE HAT TOP
xxiv. nexus pair (substitution of alphabet neighbours in several positions) [36-137,36-221]
common words: next & nexus
common words: adds & beet
e.g. CARDS-BARDS-BARES-BASES-BATES (part of a 16-word single-step nexus network)
xxv. consonant movement (one frame takes the most different consonants) [35-145,35-289]
e.g. _AT: bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, pat, rat, sat, vat ...
e.g. A_: Ah, at an ad am as at an ax, ay?
xxvi. syllable ladder (word ladder changing one syllable per step) [8-172,8-230,9-46]
e.g. DOCTOR-CANTOR-CANMAN-LAWMAN-LAWYER
e.g. WHISKEY-WHISKIN-PARKIN-PARKA-VODKA
xxvii. word-ladder span (pair of words needing the most ladder steps), largest [18-217,22-28,23-154,24-81]
e.g. INCH-itch-etch-each-eath-eats-wats-wits-aits-ants-anis-anil-aril-aryl-AMYL (14 steps)
e.g. ANLAGEN to CABARET, 59 steps (span of the 7-letter OSPD network)
xxviii. seesaw word ladder (sequence alternating between transposals of two letter sets that differ by one letter),
longest [48-96]
e.g. HASTE PHASE HEATS SHAPE HATES HEAPS
xxix. vowelindrome (one consonant frame taking each vowel in turn gives five palindromes: mam mem mim mom mum),
incl. double vowelindromes [26-164,27-57,27-251]
uncommon words: pap & pep & pip & pop & pup
uncommon words: tat & tet & tit & tot & tut
xxx. triplets (Newby's ladder by single-letter insertion, deletion or change, swelling to the longest word and
back; triplets-in-parallel for phrases, siamese triplets for compounds) [24-211,25-81,25-213,25-218]
e.g. A-AN-RAN-RAIN-TRAIN-STRAIN-ESTRAIN-RESTRAIN-RESTRAINS-RESTAINS-RESTAIN-RETAIN-RETIN-REIN-RIN-IN-I
e.g. triplets-in-parallel: LOG CABIN to WHITE HOUSE, all columns equal in height
d. letter pairs, all 325 possible [2-70]
e. purple turtle (replace every occurrence of one letter by another) [37-169,37-260,37-262,38-206]
common words: purple & turtle
common words: mummy & puppy
common words: abbey & alley
f. initial-letter substitution set (words differing only in the first letter), largest [5-120,TJ9-17]
e.g. _AT with all 26 initial letters: AAT, BAT, CAT, DAT ... XAT, YAT, ZAT (26)
e.g. _AY: bay, day, gay, hay, jay, lay, may, nay, pay, ray, say, way ...
g. initial-letter-change sentence (changing the first letter of every word gives another sentence) [19-219]
e.g. PAT HASN'T COME / MAT WASN'T HOME
e.g. SAVE GAS - EAT BAKED BEANS / NAVE HAS FAT NAKED DEANS
h. one-letter-change phrase (well-known phrase with one letter changed in each word) [16-174]
e.g. Jingle bells > single belle
movement [L110,9-161]
a. head-to-tail shift (move letters from front of word to end to form another word)
[L93,3-24,7-176,238,8-47,112,233,11-216,12-153]
i. longest nontrivial one letter
common words: devaluate => evaluated (9)
uncommon words: adiadokokinesi => diadokokinesia (14-t)
uncommon words: amaterialistic => materialistica (14-t)
phrases: A Streetcar Named Desire => streetcar named desire, a (21)
ii. longest two letter [L92,8-112,11-216]
common words: allocation => locational (10)
uncommon words: erotological => otologicaler (12-t)
uncommon words: insensibiliz => sensibilizin (12-t)
phrases: le bourgeois gentilhomme => bourgeois gentilhomme, le (22)
iii. longest three letter
common words: outbreak => breakout (8-t)
common words: inground => rounding (8-t)
uncommon words: manslaughter => slaughterman (12)
hyphenated words: heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh => heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh (18)
phrases: the Importance of Being Earnest => importance of being earnest, the (27)
iv. longest four letter
common words: boathouse => houseboat (9-t)
common words: oversleep => sleepover (9-t)
common words: sidetrack => trackside (9-t)
common words: woodridge => ridgewood (9-t)
common words: workpiece => piecework (9-t)
uncommon words: shipcarpenter => carpentership (13)
hyphenated words: gram-centimeter => centimeter-gram (14)
phrases: mode ecclesiastical => ecclesiastical mode (18)
v. longest five letter
common words: guesthouse => houseguest (10-t)
common words: fortepiano => pianoforte (10-t)
uncommon words: shipscarpenter => carpenterships (14)
hyphenated words: ovate-triangular => triangular-ovate (15)
phrases: serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, Kingdom of the => croats, and Slovenes, Kingdom of the Serbs (34)
b. letter shift (move letter anywhere in word to form another word), longest
common words: sexploitation => exploitations (13-t)
common words: statelessness => tastelessness (13-t)
uncommon words: altitudinariannest => latitudinariannest (18-t)
uncommon words: oophorhysterectomy => oophorohysterectomy (18-t)
phrases: A Streetcar Named Desire => streetcar named desire, a (21)
c. exchange or metathesis (exchange two letters in a word to form another word), longest [L99,24-38,252]
common words: accouterments => accoutrements (13-t)
common words: conservations => conversations (13-t)
common words: certification => rectification (13-t)
uncommon words: microspectrophotometers => microspectrophotometres (23)
hyphenated phrases: fiber-optic transmission system => fibre-optic transmission system (28)
i. metallege for each letter pair (two letters exchanged in place, all 325 pairs) [49-57]
common words: able & bale
common words: add & dad
d. exchange first and last letter, longest
common words: denouncer & renounced (9-t)
common words: dignifies & signified (9-t)
uncommon words: deinstitutionalizer & reinstitutionalized (19)
e. exchange all occurrences of two letters, longest
common words: conservation => conversation (12)
uncommon words: deinstitutionalizer => reinstitutionalized (19)
phrases: tananarive, Tananarivo => tananarivo Tananarive (20)
f. end swap (swap the outer parts of a word around an unchanged middle) [WW52.3-28]
e.g. STOP > POST (ST.O.P > P.O.ST)
e.g. STEW > WEST (ST.E.W > W.E.ST)
g. leaping letter (one letter moves between the words of a phrase, giving another phrase) [41-263]
e.g. BROW KNIT / BROWN KIT
e.g. PLATE ROOF / LATE PROOF
e.g. CAST TOOL / CAT STOOL
transposition (rearrange letters to form another word) [L80,290,3-24,136,9-21,85,14-60,88,17-220,19-207,20-23,23-26,207]
a. longest [22-3,100]
i. well-mixed [9-20,85,11-89,173,12-150,14-60,93,22-3,100,30-225]
common words: antiparticles & paternalistic (13)
uncommon words: hyperdolichocranial & hypochondriacallier (19)
ii. not well-mixed [14-24,60,88,93,16-217,19-207,216,21-26,22-3,100,30-225,312,36-201,39-45]
common words: algorithmically & logarithmically (15)
uncommon words: hydroxydeoxycorticosterones & hydroxydesoxycorticosterone (27)
phrases: international Bank for Reconstruction and Development & international bank for reconstruction and
development (48-t)
phrases: lateral mammary branches of lateral cutaneous branches & lateral mammary branches of lateral
cutaneous branches (48-t)
phrases: rami mammarii laterales rami cutanei lateralis nervoru & rami mammarii laterales rami cutanei
lateralis nervoru (48-t)
b. most [L86,292,9-131,216,10-21,12-153,172,214,218,14-137,149,153,218,15-22,106,16-93]
i. quality
common words: palest & pastel & petals & plates & pleats & septal & staple (42)
uncommon words: anestri & antsier & asterin & atrines & eranist & nariest & nastier & neritas & ranties &
resiant & restain & retians & retsina & sainter & satiner & starnie & stearin & stiarne &
taniers & trenais (140)
phrases: anestri & antsier & asterin & atrines & eranist & nariest & nastier & neritas & ranties & resiant &
restain & retians & retsina & sainter & satiner & starnie & stearin & stiarne & taniers & tin
arse & trenais (147)
ii. not quality
common words: apres & pares & parse & pears & prase & rapes & reaps & spare & spear (9-t)
common words: least & slate & stael & stale & steal & stela & tales & teals & tesla (9-t)
uncommon words: anestri & antsier & asterin & atrines & eirants & eranist & estrain & nariest & nastier &
neritas & ranites & ranties & ratines & resiant & restain & retains & retians & retinas &
retsina & sainter & satiner & stainer & starnie & stearin & stiarne & taniers & tearins &
tersina & traines & trenais (30)
phrases: atomic number & atomic number 1 & atomic number 10 & atomic number 100 & atomic number 101 & atomic
number 102 & atomic number 103 & atomic number 104 & atomic number 105 & atomic number 106 & atomic
number 107 & atomic number 108 & atomic number 109 & atomic number 11 & atomic number 110 & atomic
number 111 & atomic number 112 & atomic number 113 & atomic number 114 & atomic number 115 & atomic
number 116 & atomic number 12 & atomic number 13 & atomic number 14 & atomic number 15 & atomic
number 16 & atomic number 17 & atomic number 18 & atomic number 19 & atomic number 2 & atomic
number 20 & atomic number 21 & atomic number 22 & atomic number 23 & atomic number 24 & atomic
number 25 & atomic number 26 & atomic number 27 & atomic number 28 & atomic number 29 & atomic
number 3 & atomic number 30 & atomic number 31 & atomic number 32 & atomic number 33 & atomic
number 34 & atomic number 35 & atomic number 36 & atomic number 37 & atomic number 38 & atomic
number 39 & atomic number 4 & atomic number 40 & atomic number 41 & atomic number 42 & atomic
number 43 & atomic number 44 & atomic number 45 & atomic number 46 & atomic number 47 & atomic
number 48 & atomic number 49 & atomic number 5 & atomic number 50 & atomic number 51 & atomic
number 52 & atomic number 53 & atomic number 54 & atomic number 55 & atomic number 56 & atomic
number 57 & atomic number 58 & atomic number 59 & atomic number 6 & atomic number 60 & atomic
number 61 & atomic number 62 & atomic number 63 & atomic number 64 & atomic number 65 & atomic
number 66 & atomic number 67 & atomic number 68 & atomic number 69 & atomic number 7 & atomic
number 70 & atomic number 71 & atomic number 72 & atomic number 73 & atomic number 74 & atomic
number 75 & atomic number 76 & atomic number 77 & atomic number 78 & atomic number 79 & atomic
number 8 & atomic number 80 & atomic number 81 & atomic number 82 & atomic number 83 & atomic
number 84 & atomic number 85 & atomic number 86 & atomic number 87 & atomic number 88 & atomic
number 89 & atomic number 9 & atomic number 90 & atomic number 91 & atomic number 92 & atomic
number 93 & atomic number 94 & atomic number 95 & atomic number 96 & atomic number 97 & atomic
number 98 & atomic number 99 (117)
c. complete transposal lists
i. rotated (all possible rotations of letters form other words), longest [L93]
common words: ah & ha (2-t)
common words: fi & if (2-t)
common words: am & ma (2-t)
common words: im & mi (2-t)
common words: ho & oh (2-t)
common words: no & on (2-t)
common words: er & re (2-t)
common words: os & so (2-t)
common words: it & ti (2-t)
uncommon words: abash & basha & ashab & shaba & habas (5-t)
uncommon words: ather & thera & herat & erath & rathe (5-t)
uncommon words: erath & herat & rathe & ather & thera (5-t)
uncommon words: erest & reste & ester & stere & teres (5-t)
uncommon words: elest & leste & estel & stele & teles (5-t)
uncommon words: estop & stope & topes & opest & pesto (5-t)
... and 3 others
ii. nearly complete
uncommon words: arb & bar & bra & rab & abr (3-t)
uncommon words: asc & cas & csa & sac & sca & acs (3-t)
uncommon words: aed & dae & dea & eda & ade (3-t)
uncommon words: cal & cla & lac & lca & acl (3-t)
uncommon words: amb & bam & mab & mba & abm (3-t)
uncommon words: arc & car & cra & rac & rca & acr (3-t)
... and 94 others
phrases: AIMS & AIMs & IMAS & IMSA & ISAM & MIA's & MIAs & SIAM & aims & amis & iams & isma & mai's & mais &
masi & mia's & mias & misa & saim & sami & siam & sima & aim's (4-t)
phrases: Ares & ERAs & aSer & aers & are's & ares & arse & aser & ear's & ears & era's & eras & esra &
rae's & raes & rase & reas & resa & saer & sare & sear & sera & sera# & areS (4-t)
phrases: -ates & ETAS & ETAs & East & aest & aset & aste & ate's & ates & east & east< & eats & eats1 &
esta & eta's & etas & sate & sate1 & seat & seta & taes & tase & tea's & teas & aSte (4-t)
phrases: -arts & ATRS & Arts & TRSA & arst & arts & astr & astr- & astr. & rast & rat's & rats & rtas &
sart & srta & srta. & star & stra & tar's & tars & tars- & tras & tsar & tsar# & art's (4-t)
phrases: -ians & -inas & ANSI & ains & anis & anis- & ansi & as in & asin & asni & ian's & in a's & in as &
ina's & inas & isna & nais & nasi & nasi- & nias & nisa & sain & sani & sian & sina & `ains (4-t)
d. highest ratio count divided by length
common words: apres & pares & parse & pears & prase & rapes & reaps & spare & spear (1.8-t)
common words: least & slate & stael & stale & steal & stela & tales & teals & tesla (1.8-t)
uncommon words: arest & arets & aster & astre & earst & earts & erast & rates & reast & reats & resat & sater &
serta & setar & stare & stear & strae & strea & tares & tarse & taser & tears & teras & traes &
trase & treas & tresa (5.4-t)
uncommon words: airts & arist & artis & astir & astri & raits & rasti & ratis & riats & ritas & sarti & sirat &
sitar & sitra & stair & strai & stria & tairs & taris & tarsi & tiars & tisar & trais & trasi &
trias & trisa & tsari (5.4-t)
hyphenated words: -aster & arest & arets & aster & astre & earst & earts & erast & rates & reast & reats & resat &
sater & serta & setar & stare & stear & strae & strea & tares & tarse & taser & tears & teras &
traes & trase & treas & tresa (5.6)
e. non-tautonym exchange front and rear non-word parts, longest
e.g., RAINING => RAIN ING => ING RAIN => INGRAIN
common words: inground & rounding (8)
uncommon words: decimosexto & sextodecimo (11-t)
uncommon words: ephthaliter & terephthali (11-t)
hyphenated words: heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh & heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh (18)
phrases: arcus pedis longitudinalis pars lateralis & pars lateralis arcus pedis longitudinalis (37)
i. commuting letter pair or Abelian alphabet (transposal pairs reduced by cancelling common first or last letters
until xy=yx) [27-120]
e.g. EAR = ERA gives AR = RA
e.g. UNITE = UNTIE gives IT = TI
ii. reed-deer pair (RE-...-ED and DE-...-ER words on the same stem, transposals of each other), alphabet of
reedable-deerable words [30-62]
common words: rebated & debater
e.g. repressed & depresser
common words: resigned & designer
f. first transposal, solid word, for each letter [4-28,143]
g. last transposal, solid word, for each letter
h. cycles or rings [15-147]
i. all possible
i. four-letters [4-55,169,20-195]
ii. five-letters [3-25,11-107]
iii. six-letters [3-27]
iv. ten-letters [4-231]
j. half-half transposal (each half transposed separately) [35-236,40-13,WW52.3-89]
e.g. ADVI.SORS = AVID ROSS
e.g. TRIS.SORS = STIR ROSS
k. leapfrog word (odd-numbered letters then even-numbered letters form another word) [32-133]
common words: feast & fates
common words: gun & gnu
common words: pearl & paler
l. vowel-swap transposal (vowels exchange places, consonants stay) [38-94]
common words: trails & trials
common words: mantel & mental
m. Josephus pair (letters permuted by a skip sequence) [44-221]
common words: neuter & tenure
common words: opuses & spouse
uncommon words: begird & bridge
n. all-subset transposal (every k-letter subset of the word transposes to a word) [7-225,244,8-50,148,246,21-53,43-280]
e.g. ESTHONIA splits into two 4-letter words in all 35 ways: HONE+AITS, SEAT+HOIN, OATS+HINE ...
o. transposable name (first name and surname are transposals) [19-109,28-250,29-37,31-199,270,45-22]
e.g. Gary Gray; Edna Dean; Norma Moran
p. one-word anagram of a full name [33-93,33-215]
e.g. ERIC CLAPTON = NARCOLEPTIC
e.g. BRITNEY SPEARS = PRESBYTERIANS
e.g. MEG RYAN = GERMANY
q. multi-title anagram (several titles together transpose to others) [TJ2-33,TJ12-51]
e.g. MONTROSE + IN BLACK AND WHITE = NOT A WAKE + THE CRIMSON BLIND (book titles)
r. anagram text (each word, each line or the whole of a text transposed into another)
[2-14,24,9-25,85,31-124,221,233,294,311,32-52,198,238,308,33-41,180,287,316,34-24,55,163,190,192,275,306,35-36,106,228,
37-105,38-105,236,42-207,293,43-127,214,217,TJ5-19,TJ8-30,IN3-18,IN5-76]
e.g. each word transposed: "Whit terga greeny ... het niding moor" = "With great energy ... the dining room"
i. Greek letter-name anagram text (text using exactly the letters of the 24 Greek letter names) [16-140]
e.g. Papa Socrates imbibes the hemlock. / Adieu, haphazard Mama Xanthippe, / Ululating, "Pig mine!"
ii. accidental anagram (two independently written texts, e.g. tweets found by a bot, that are transposals of each
other) [49-87]
e.g. Anagramatron (Twitter bot by Colin Rothfels) pairs unrelated tweets that use identical letters
iii. senescent sentence (sentence made of consecutive phrases that are all anagrams of one another) [28-214]
e.g. Is it giving gingivitis?
e.g. Swine: sinew: is new
s. bananagram (rhymed couplet whose blanks are a pair of anagrams)
[31-139,31-232,31-313,32-76,32-152,32-231,32-307,33-53,33-102,33-201,33-315,34-73,34-153,34-236,34-291,35-72,35-158,
35-224,35-291,36-76,36-153,36-274,37-315,38-74]
e.g. Two heads are much better than one. No mistake. / Unless they're both yours and EACH of them ACHE.
t. anagram yield (valid transposals as a fraction of all permutations of a word), highest for each length [4-3]
e.g. TEA: ATE, EAT, ETA, TEA = 4 of 6 permutations
u. given-name transposal set (given names that transpose only into other given names) [8-34,8-152]
e.g. ERNIE / IRENE / RENIE
e.g. DOLLY / LLOYD; ANNETTE / NANETTE
v. letter-rank sequence (isogram coded by the alphabetical ranks of its letters; words for every permutation of a pattern)
[10-153,11-246,12-106]
e.g. FOR 123, DIG 132, CAN 213, NUB 231, YOU 312, THE 321
w. letter-rotation transposal (transposal allowing letters to be turned into others: W=M, b=d, u=n) [11-170]
e.g. WANDER > REMAND (W turned over = M)
e.g. EBON > NODE (b = d)
e.g. QUIETS > INSTEP (q = p, u = n)
x. telanagram (sentence all of whose words are transposals of one word) [3-35]
e.g. LIVE EVIL VILE VEIL LEVI
e.g. POLO'S SLOOP POOLS SPOOL LOOPS
y. translingual transposal (word in one language transposes to a word in another), longest [6-101,11-36,11-152,11-215]
e.g. English UNGENERATING = German EINTRAGUNGEN 'entries' (12)
e.g. English PROCREATIONS = Italian PRONOSTICARE 'to forecast' (12)
z. transposal permutation pattern (the position permutation of a transposal pair, e.g. 41325; pairs sharing one pattern)
[3-24,10-201,11-88]
e.g. PROSE/SPORE = OLIVE/VOILE = 41325
e.g. CORAL/CAROL = 14325 (self-inverse)
transdeletion (delete one letter and rearrange to form another word) [L110,9-161]
a. longest
i. well-mixed [22-100]
common words: antidemocratic => accreditation (14-t)
common words: conservatories => controversies (14-t)
common words: decentralizing => credentialing (14-t)
common words: discolorations => consolidators (14-t)
common words: discontinuance => denunciations (14-t)
common words: multicharacter => architectural (14-t)
common words: astrophysicist => psychiatrists (14-t)
common words: precariousness => repercussions (14-t)
uncommon words: hypoadrenocorticisms => microdrepanocytosis (20)
phrases: electrical transcription => internal occipital crest (23)
ii. not well-mixed
common words: immunoprecipitations => immunoprecipitation (20)
uncommon words: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes => dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (32)
phrases: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphates => nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (41-t)
phrases: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulations => transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (41-t)
hyphenated phrases: granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factors => granulocyte-macrophage
colony-stimulating factor (45)
b. longest progressive [L119,4-73,6-210,12-141,144,146,15-17,153,21-75,22-102,34-101,233,36-21,38-43]
common words: demonstrations => demonstration => denominators => moderations => dominators => dominator => tandoori
=> oration => torino => nitro => torn => rot => to => t (14)
uncommon words: representationalissest => representationalisest => representationalists => representationalist =>
representationalis => intraperitoneales => intraperitoneals => proletariannest => pretranslation =>
pronatalister => interportals => protistaner => pitteraros => portraits => triparts => tartirs =>
strait => trist => trst => tts => tt => t (22)
c. double repeated transdeletion [Whitely, p. 27]
common words: indoctrinated => indoctrinate => interaction (13)
uncommon words: electrosynthetically => electrosyntheticall => centrolecithallest (20-t)
uncommon words: configurationalliest => configurationallest => selfcongratulation (20-t)
phrases: type III familial hyperlipoproteinemia => type II familial hyperlipoproteinemia => type I familial
hyperlipoproteinemia (35)
d. longest deletion in each position (Baltimore transdeletion) [L122,1-213,22-58]
common words: enlarged : grendel & enlarge & dangler & dangler & laender & enraged & regaled & gleaned (8-t)
common words: creators : rectors & roaster & carrots & craters & coaster & coaster & creator & coarser (8-t)
common words: reactors : rectors & roaster & carrots & craters & coaster & coaster & creator & coarser (8-t)
common words: angriest : stinger & ratings & nastier & garnets & gaiters & estaing & ingrate & erasing (8-t)
common words: gantries : stinger & ratings & nastier & garnets & gaiters & estaing & ingrate & erasing (8-t)
common words: restates : streets & staters & staters & estates & restate & restate & seaters & seaters (8-t)
common words: cheaters : retches & heaters & chaster & chaster & creates & teaches & hectare & reaches (8-t)
common words: hectares : retches & heaters & chaster & chaster & creates & teaches & hectare & reaches (8-t)
common words: teachers : retches & heaters & chaster & chaster & creates & teaches & hectare & reaches (8-t)
... and 15 others
uncommon words: aristotelian : orientalist & orientalist & rationalist & alterations & alterations & arietations &
aristotelia & antirealist & atonalities & retaliation & rationalise & rationalise (12-t)
uncommon words: aristotelian : orientalist & orientalist & rationalist & alterations & alterations & arietations &
aristotelia & antirealist & atonalities & retaliation & rationalise & rationalise (12-t)
uncommon words: laterisation : orientalist & orientalist & rationalist & alterations & alterations & arietations &
aristotelia & antirealist & atonalities & retaliation & rationalise & rationalise (12-t)
uncommon words: ascertainers : erraticness & erraticness & tesserarian & incrassater & incrassater & caressanter &
resarciates & arsenicates & arsenicates & sectarianer & sectarianer & casserianer (12-t)
uncommon words: reascertains : erraticness & erraticness & tesserarian & incrassater & incrassater & caressanter &
resarciates & arsenicates & arsenicates & sectarianer & sectarianer & casserianer (12-t)
uncommon words: patrocinates : inspectator & inspectator & tetranopsia & pantisocrat & postcarnate & aspectratio &
transpeciat & croatianest & capotainest & anaptoticer & ceratopsian & ceratopsian (12-t)
... and 19 others
hyphenated words: interdealings : rendingliest & instealinger & standinglier & standinglier & internalised &
instrangleed & instrangleed & deresinating & laser-ignited & laser-ignited & inleadingest &
interdealing & leading-reins (13)
e. Baltimore progressive [4-67,11-215,14-150,15-20,16-23,17-72]
f. transplant (move letters one at a time from one word to another, each stage transposing to words) [29-278]
e.g. H, then E, moved from DISHEARTEN into CENT: DETAINERS/TENCH, STRAINED/THENCE ...
g. complete trans-n-deletion and trans-n-addition survey (every way of deleting or adding n letters to one word tested for
transposals) [22-151,22-221,22-222]
e.g. PALINDROME: 82 of its 120 trans-3-deletions found (LEPORID, IMPLORE ...)
h. transdeletion phrase (a word and its transdeletion together form a natural phrase) [49-148]
e.g. IDEAL DELI
e.g. PLEASE SLEEP
e.g. YEMEN'S ENEMY
transaddition (add one letter and rearrange to form another word) [9-161]
a. cannot add a letter and transpose to form word, shortest [4-109]
common words: gawks (5-t)
common words: gawky (5-t)
common words: hafez (5-t)
common words: hyrax (5-t)
common words: jaggy (5-t)
common words: jazzy (5-t)
common words: pfalz (5-t)
common words: swabs (5-t)
common words: vapid (5-t)
... and 26 others
uncommon words: jawy (4-t)
uncommon words: juza (4-t)
uncommon words: knax (4-t)
uncommon words: qtam (4-t)
uncommon words: valx (4-t)
uncommon words: walx (4-t)
... and 87 others
b. alphabetic [2-64,4-115,248,5-105,13-102,15-23,110,17-37,83,30-172,318,34-206,265]
common words: brand : bandar & bander & briand & brando & brands & brandt & durban & brandy (8)
uncommon words: aa : aaa & baa & aac & ada & aea & afa & aga & aha & aia & aja & aka & ala & ama & ana & aoa & apa & aqa & ara &
asa & ata & aua & ava & awa & axa & aya & aza (26-t)
uncommon words: agin : again & banig & acing & daign & gaine & fagin & aging & haing & nigia & jiang & aking & align & magni &
ingan & ngaio & aping & qiang & garni & gains & giant & nigua & gavin & wigan & axing & iyang & ginza (26-t)
uncommon words: amor : aroma & rambo & carom & radom & amore & forma & mogra & mohar & maori & major & korma & molar & mamor &
manor & maroo & proam & qorma & armor & maros & marot & omura & mavor & mowra & morax & mayor & razom (26-t)
uncommon words: aret : tarae & berta & crate & rated & arete & after & grate & hater & irate & jaret & taker & later & mater &
retan & erato & peart & tareq & rater & rates & treat & urate & avert & water & extra & teary & terza (26-t)
uncommon words: aint : tiana & baint & antic & daint & taine & faint & giant & thani & tinia & tajin & takin & latin & matin &
antin & taino & pinta & antiq & nitra & antis & titan & uniat & vinta & twain & taxin & tinya & nitza (26-t)
uncommon words: amr : arma & ramb & cram & mrad & mare & farm & gram & harm & irma & marj & mark & marl & ramm & mrna & roam &
ramp & marq & marr & arms & mart & amur & vram & warm & marx & army & marz (26-t)
... and 15 others
c. anamonic (mnemonic phrase of exactly the letters that, added to a stem, transpose to a word) [40-103]
e.g. STATUE + any letter of I BID ON RODIN'S COMPOSITION (BCDIMNOPRST) makes a 7-letter word
d. split progressive transaddition (both halves grow by a common added letter, step by step) [WW52.3-46]
e.g. DAL/TON > LEAD/NOTE > SLADE/STONE > LASHED/HONEST
e. centerpiece (word whose letters, rearranged and flanked by the same letter at both ends, give a word) [45-222]
e.g. RAINS > T+RANSI+T = TRANSIT
e.g. RAINS > P+ARSNI+P = PARSNIP
transubstitution (substitute one letter and rearrange to form another word)
a. longest well-mixed [M149, 22-100]
common words: anthropocentrism => northamptonshire (16)
uncommon words: intraperitonealliest => interpretationallest (20-t)
uncommon words: heterotrophicalliest => protoperitheciallest (20-t)
uncommon words: supertechnologicaler => electrooculographies (20-t)
phrases: occipitofrontalis muscle => collection of manuscripts (23-t)
phrases: reflecting galvanometers => transverse ligament of leg (23-t)
b. changeover (change one letter and move it to form another word), longest
common words: preservationist & reservationists (15)
uncommon words: attitudinarianisms & latitudinarianisms (18-t)
uncommon words: preacknowledgement & reacknowledgements (18-t)
uncommon words: demographicalliest & ideographicalliest (18-t)
uncommon words: holographicalliest & oleographicalliest (18-t)
uncommon words: costochondritisses & osteochondritisses (18-t)
uncommon words: latitudinarianisms & platitudinarianism (18-t)
... and 4 others
phrases: eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus & western equine encephalomyelitis virus (35)
c. switchback (change first letter and reverse the rest to form another word), longest
e.g., SPOT => ATOP
common words: adelaide & redialed (8)
uncommon words: blaineder & predenial (9-t)
uncommon words: erewarder & predrawer (9-t)
uncommon words: faecality & mytilacea (9-t)
uncommon words: breviting & ignitiver (9-t)
uncommon words: evitative & levitativ (9-t)
uncommon words: fertilage & megalitre (9-t)
... and 11 others
d. backswitch (change last letter and reverse the rest to form another word), longest
e.g., AREA => ERAS
common words: evening & nineveh (7-t)
common words: nailers & reliant (7-t)
common words: carters & retrace (7-t)
common words: ellipse & spilled (7-t)
common words: erosive & visored (7-t)
uncommon words: levitators & rotatively (10)
e. paratransposition (substitute an alphabet neighbour, then transpose) [11-79,11-238,IN1-24]
e.g. GENITALS > GENITALR (S>R) > TRIANGLE
words within words [L110,11-74]
a. charade (concatenate words to form another word) [23-184]
i. snowball or rhopalic (concatenate words increasing in length to form another word), longest [9-103,11-19,113]
uncommon words: hexachlorocyclohexane : h & ex & ach & loro & cyclo & hexane (21-t)
uncommon words: chronogrammaticallier : c & hr & ono & gram & matic & allier (21-t)
uncommon words: distinguishablenesses : d & is & tin & guis & hable & nesses (21-t)
uncommon words: acanthocheilonemiases : a & ca & nth & oche & ilone & miases (21-t)
uncommon words: gastrodiaphanoscopies : g & as & tro & diap & hanos & copies (21-t)
uncommon words: acetylcholinesterases : a & ce & tyl & chol & inest & erases (21-t)
... and 19 others
phrases: electrical alternation of heart : e & le & ctr & ical & alter & nation & of heart (28-t)
phrases: to hold the scales even or equally : t & oh & old & thes & cales & evenor & equally (28-t)
phrases: to make an attempt to give attempt : t & om & ake & anat & tempt & to give & attempt (28-t)
ii. reverse snowball or reverse rhopalic (concatenate words decreasing in length to form another word), longest
[11-113,178]
common words: interventionism : inter & vent & ion & is & m (15-t)
common words: interventionist : inter & vent & ion & is & t (15-t)
uncommon words: acetylcholinesterases : acetyl & choli & nest & era & se & s (21-t)
uncommon words: fluorohydrocortisones : fluoro & hydro & cort & iso & ne & s (21-t)
uncommon words: heterotransplantabity : hetero & trans & plan & tab & it & y (21-t)
uncommon words: electrochromatography : electr & ochro & mato & gra & ph & y (21-t)
uncommon words: adrenomyeloneuropathy : adreno & myelo & neur & opa & th & y (21-t)
uncommon words: circumterrestriallest : circum & terre & stri & all & es & t (21-t)
... and 27 others
phrases: cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea : cerebro & spinal & fluid & rhin & orr & he & a (28-t)
phrases: dermatopathic lymphadenopathy : dermato & pathic & lymph & aden & opa & th & y (28-t)
phrases: electrophysiologic audiometry : electro & physio & logic & audi & -ome & tr & y (28-t)
phrases: erythrokeratoderma variabilis : erythro & kerato & derma & vari & abi & li & s (28-t)
phrases: posteromedial central arteries : postero- & medial & centr & alar & ter & ie & s (28-t)
iii. composed of common words, longest [2-205,4-116,8-41]
common words: misrepresentations : mis & re & pre & sent & at & ions (18-t)
common words: overrepresentation : over & re & pre & sent & at & ion (18-t)
common words: antidiscrimination : an & ti & disc & rim & in & at & ion (18-t)
uncommon words: overimpressionableness : over & im & pre & ss & ion & able & ne & ss (22-t)
uncommon words: whatyouseeiswhatyouget : what & you & see & is & what & you & get (22-t)
phrases: how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a tha : ho & ws & harp & er & than & as & er &
pen & ts & toot & hi & tis & to & ha & ve & at & ha (42)
iv. forward and reverse (concatenate words both forward and reversed to form another word), longest [L111,9-186]
common words: ergonomist : er & go & no & mist & ts & im & on & ogre (10)
uncommon words: llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogo : ll & an & fa & ir & pw & ll & gw &
yn & gy & ll & go & ge & ry & ch & wy & rn & dr & ob & wl & ll & la & nt & ys & il & io &
gogo & og & og & oi & li & sy & tn & al & ll & lw & bo & rd & nr & yw & hcy & re & go & gl &
ly & gn & yw & gl & lw & pr & ia & fn & all (54)
v. square word (word that when spelled in a square forms words for every row and column), longest
e.g., LACERATED = LAC + ERA + TED & LET + ARE + CAD
uncommon words: staphyloplasties : stap & shpt & hylo & tyli & plas & alae & ties & poss (16-t)
uncommon words: stagnationistest : stag & snot & nati & tane & onis & atis & test & gist (16-t)
vi. double charade (most different charade parsings) [43-98,WW52.1-88]
e.g. ADORATION: a-do-ration, a-do-rat-ion, ad-oration, ad-or-at-ion, ad-or-a-ti-on (5)
e.g. RAMPANT: ramp ant or ram pant; RAMPAGES: ramp ages or ram pages
vii. Hebrew charade (components in reverse order) [WW51.1-54]
e.g. TOP + TABLE taken in reverse order = TABLETOP
e.g. Hebrew scandinavian (whole string reversed): EL + BAR + APES read right to left = SEPARABLE
viii. homophonic charade (parts sound like other words) [39-4,39-7]
e.g. SIS + TERN = CISTERN
e.g. LIE + SENSE = LICENSE
ix. tense word (charade of two tenses of the same verb) [34-292]
e.g. SEESAW = SEE + SAW
e.g. DIDO = DID + DO
x. mad dash (word broken at a line-end hyphen into a misleading charade) [35-79]
e.g. the-rapist
e.g. rear-rested
e.g. cat-heter
xi. foster compound (charade word whose parts are etymologically unrelated to the whole) [8-41]
e.g. CHARADE = CHAR + ADE
xii. monosyllabic charade (one-syllable word made of two or more one-syllable words) [4-105]
e.g. THYME = THY + ME
xiii. multi-word function compound (adverb, conjunction or preposition built from three or more short words:
nevertheless) [21-41]
common word: notwithstanding
uncommon word: hereinbefore
xiv. two-letter chain word (word that splits entirely into two-letter words) [8-104,9-41]
e.g. IN-UN-DA-TI-ON
e.g. linked: EM-MA-AN-NA-AT-TI-IO-ON (EMANATION)
xv. everywhere-splittable word (word that splits into two words at every internal break point) [45-262]
e.g. PASTERN: p/astern, pa/stern, pas/tern, past/ern, paster/n
xvi. parent-offspring phrase (word and its two charade parts arranged into a three-word phrase) [46-245]
e.g. barrow: bar row
e.g. address: dress ad
e.g. banjo: ban banjo Jo
b. linkade (overlap words to form another word)
i. composed of common words, longest
common words: paranormalities : par & ran & an & norm & ma & alit & lit & it & ties (15)
uncommon words: improportionablest : imp & prop & port & ti & ion & on & nab & able & lest (18)
phrases: to stay one's own or another's hand : to & os & stay & yo & ones & so & own & no & or & ran & an &
not & the & he & er & rs & shan & hand (27)
ii. composed of three-letter maximally overlapping words, longest
common words: seared : sea & ear & are & red (6-t)
common words: basher : bas & ash & she & her (6-t)
common words: lasher : las & ash & she & her (6-t)
common words: masher : mas & ash & she & her (6-t)
common words: baskin : bas & ask & ski & kin (6-t)
common words: teared : tea & ear & are & red (6-t)
common words: washer : was & ash & she & her (6-t)
uncommon words: religiophilosophicals : rel & eli & lig & igi & gio & iop & oph & phi & hil & ilo & los &
oso & sop & oph & phi & hic & ica & cal & als (21-t)
uncommon words: distinguishablenesses : dis & ist & sti & tin & ing & ngu & gui & uis & ish & sha & hab &
abl & ble & len & ene & nes & ess & sse & ses (21-t)
hyphenated words: streptokinase-streptodornase : str & tre & rep & ept & pto & tok & oki & kin & ina & nas &
ase & ses & est & str & tre & rep & ept & pto & tod & odo & dor & orn & rna & nas & ase
(27)
phrases: facies articularis talaris posterior calcanei : fac & ACI & cie & ies & ESA & sar & art & rti &
tic & icu & cul & ula & lar & ari & ris & ist & sta & tal & ala & lar & ari & ris & ISP & SPO &
pos & oSt & ste & ter & eri & rio & -ior & orc & rca & cal & alc. & lca & can & ane & nei (41-t)
phrases: if ifs and ans were pots and pans, there'd be no trade : ifi & fif & ifs & FSA & san & and & NDA &
dan & ans & nsw & swe & wer & ere & rep & EPO & pot & OTS & tsa & san & and & NDP & DPA & pan &
ans & NST & sth & the & her & ere & red & edb & DBE & ben & eno & not & OTR & tra & rad & ade
(41-t)
iii. composed of four-letter maximally overlapping words, longest
common words: charms : char & harm & arms (6-t)
common words: amends : amen & mend & ends (6-t)
common words: honest : hone & ones & nest (6-t)
common words: palest : pale & ales & lest (6-t)
common words: parent : pare & aren & rent (6-t)
common words: direst : dire & ires & rest (6-t)
common words: forest : fore & ores & rest (6-t)
common words: scowls : scow & cowl & owls (6-t)
common words: shinto : shin & hint & into (6-t)
... and 5 others
uncommon words: macrochemically : macr & acro & croc & roch & oche & chem & hemi & emic & mica & ical &
call & ally (15-t)
uncommon words: cholinesterases : chol & holi & olin & line & ines & nest & este & ster & tera & eras &
rase & ases (15-t)
uncommon words: cosmotheticaler : cosm & osmo & smot & moth & othe & thet & heti & etic & tica & ical &
cale & aler (15-t)
uncommon words: parakeratosises : para & arak & rake & aker & kera & erat & rato & atos & tosi & osis &
sise & ises (15-t)
uncommon words: tetremimeraller : tetr & etre & trem & remi & emim & mime & imer & mera & eral & rall &
alle & ller (15-t)
phrases: japanese star anises : japa & apan & pane & anes & nese & eses & SEST & esta & star & tara & aran &
rani & anis & nise & ises (18)
iv. composed of five-letter maximally overlapping words, longest
common words: pasterns : paste & aster & stern & terns (8)
uncommon words: hohohohohohoh : hohoh & ohoho & hohoh & ohoho & hohoh & ohoho & hohoh & ohoho & hohoh (13)
v. synonymous linkade (two synonyms overlapping to form one string) [TJ2-44,IN4-18,IN5-28]
e.g. abaSHAME; auBURNT; clAPPLAUD
e.g. antonyms: uselESSENTIAL
vi. Hebrew linkade (word that splits into two overlapping words which, taken in reverse order, form a phrase),
incl. reversed overlaps [46-94]
e.g. PLEASE = EASE PLEA
e.g. SUBURBAN = BAN SUBURB
e.g. reversed: GABOR = ROB BAG
c. alternade or binade (word made from two words that are interlaced every other letter), longest [L170,9-104]
common words: spallation : salto & plain (10)
uncommon words: mountainless : mutils & onanes (12-t)
uncommon words: scarceheades : sachae & creeds (12-t)
uncommon words: scarleteeres : saltee & creers (12-t)
uncommon words: sphaeroblast : sheols & parbat (12-t)
uncommon words: unpictoriall : upcoil & nitral (12-t)
uncommon words: unporousness : upruns & nooses (12-t)
i. generalized alternade (trinade, quaternade, reverse and multiple alternades), longest [9-104,175,33-133,163,306]
e.g. PACIFICATORY = PICO + AFAR + CITY (trinade)
e.g. PANTALOONERY = PAN + ALE + NOR + TOY (quaternade)
ii. half-alternade (only one of the two alternating letter sets is a word) [10-251,26-238,30-238]
e.g. FEAST > FAT
e.g. BRAMBLES > BABE
e.g. DIARRHEA > DARE
iii. confused alternade (the odd-position and even-position letters each transpose to a word) [46-158]
e.g. PERMUTES = PRUE > PURE (odd letters) + EMTS > STEM (even letters)
iv. pattern alternade (alternating letters form palindromic, tautonymic or Miami patterns rather than words)
[46-308]
e.g. CHURCH = CUC + HRH
e.g. MAXIMA = MXM + AIA
v. word alternade text (passage whose odd-numbered and even-numbered words each form a text) [22-47]
e.g. "They will go, you see, always a touch short..." gives "They go see a short..." / "will you always
touch..."
d. embedded word (word embedded in interior of another word) [7-177,238,8-185,9-172,12-217]
i. longest reversed
common words: sensuousness : sensuous (8)
uncommon words: mineralocorticoid : citrocola (9-t)
uncommon words: mineralocorticoids : citrocola (9-t)
uncommon words: derotavatored : rotavator (9-t)
ii. longest two-way nested progressive 3-5 letter
common words: pilgrimage : grim & lag & pie & rim & gag & pile (10-t)
common words: disallowed : low & sale & did & all & sow & died (10-t)
common words: bandwagons : wagon & bands & wag & don & bans (10-t)
uncommon words: meningoencephalomyelitideses : eph & cal & nom & eye & gol & nitid & nie & meses & cep &
nha & elo & omy & gel & init & nid & ees & mes (28-t)
uncommon words: stereoelectroencephalography : tro & cen & lece & epha & olo & reg & terap & shy & ctr &
leo & eence & oph & eal & rog & era & tph & sy (28-t)
hyphenated words: supercalifragilisticexpialidociouser : lis & agit & ric & fex & ipi & lal & aid & coc &
eri & pou & use & sr & rag & fili & istic & lex & api & calid & roc & pei & -uous & ser
(36)
phrases: angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia : cly & imp & thad & sen & AOP & lathy &
BWI & oth & und & immy & OSp & IRO & gte & nine & amia & ICL & tymp & sha & aden & lop & bathy- &
now & uit & MHD & mys & ipr & oot & gie & nin & aemia (51-t)
phrases: familial hyperbetalipoproteinemia and hyperprebetalipo : ipo & LPR & AOT & tein & beem & RIAA &
end & phy & hyp & ler & apr & iebet & lali & mip & fao & lip & tao & EPR & bot & reine & emia &
pand & hyh & lype & arp & ire & ilb & meta & ali & FPO (51-t)
phrases: familial hyperchylomicronemia with hyperprebetalipopro : one & RMI & mica & OWI & LTh & yhy & CHP &
ere & prp & hyr & leb & aet & ial & lip & mio & apr & fo & omi & LCR & yon & hemi & caw & eri &
PTH & hyh & lype & arp & lir & iebet & mali & a pop & fro (51-t)
phrases: hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase deficie : pho & sri & hob & EPO & ins & any & gul &
etr & nan & ISF & her & tased & nef & AIC & oxi & hype & eph & nos & iph & nori & UAB & gos & eyl &
NTR & -ians & HFE & tra & NSE & ade & oxf & pici & hye (51-t)
phrases: international Telecommunications Satellite Organisatio : com & emu & eln & tic & lat & nai & oons &
isat- & tell & nait & reorg & eanis & tati & ino & LEC & teo & lm/m & aun & nica & oti & ions &
tsa & atell & nit & reo & erg & tanis & nati & io (51-t)
phrases: ligamentum laterale articulationis temporomandibularis : lea & art & eric & tula & ati & lon &
miste & ump & tor & nom & ean & MDI & abu & gla & iri & ls & ale & rar & etic & tul & aat & lion &
mis & ute & TMP & nor & eom & man & adib & gula & liris (51-t)
hyphenated phrases: UDPglucuronate-bilirubinglucuronoside glucuronosyltran : glu & inc & ubu & RRO & lin &
bio & ESI & TDE & AGL & nuc & our & ron & uos & cyl & glut & pra & UDN & rub & lii &
ing & blu & tec & aur & no-nos & oid & reg & ulu & CCU & uro & lnos & gyl & dpt & uran
(52)
iii. longest three-way nested progressive 3-5 letter
common words: pillages : age & pills & lag & piles & ill & pages (8)
uncommon words: methylenedioxybenzaldehydes : dioxy & nebe & lenz & yald & heh & ety & mdes & ben & xyz &
dioa & nel & led & hye & thy & medes & oxy & dib & nee & enz & lal & hyde & eth & mydes (27)
phrases: angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia : mph & yad & len & copa & tit & shy &
awit & lhd & oby & uns & M M.P. & OIr & iot & gein & nem & aia & cly & imp & thad & sen & AOP &
lathy & BWI & oth & und & immy & OSp & IRO & gte & nine & amia & ICL & tymp & sha & aden & lop &
bathy- & now & uit & MHD & mys & ipr & oot & gie & nin & aemia (51-t)
phrases: familial hyperbetalipoproteinemia and hyperprebetalipo : pro & pot & lie & ain & tem & EIA & band &
rhy & epe & prp & hyr & leb & aet & lia & ili & amp & fo & ipo & LPR & AOT & tein & beem & RIAA &
end & phy & hyp & ler & apr & iebet & lali & mip & fao & lip & tao & EPR & bot & reine & emia &
pand & hyh & lype & arp & ire & ilb & meta & ali & FPO (51-t)
phrases: familial hyperchylomicronemia with hyperprebetalipopro : hyp & the & wir & IAP & EMR & rone & ICB &
-ome & hylt & perca & hyl & ali & lipo & mip & faro & one & RMI & mica & OWI & LTh & yhy & CHP &
ere & prp & hyr & leb & aet & ial & lip & mio & apr & fo & omi & LCR & yon & hemi & caw & eri &
PTH & hyh & lype & arp & lir & iebet & mali & a pop & fro (51-t)
phrases: international Telecommunications Satellite Organisatio : OMM & cun & lei & tecat & lion & ass &
nate & olli & ite & tor & aga & NNI & RSA & eti & into & com & emu & eln & tic & lat & nai & oons &
isat- & tell & nait & reorg & eanis & tati & ino & LEC & teo & lm/m & aun & nica & oti & ions &
tsa & atell & nit & reo & erg & tanis & nati & io (51-t)
phrases: ligamentum laterale articulationis temporomandibularis : ear & alti & RCU & tela & ation & list &
mem & upo & trom & nan & medi & abul & gari & lis & lea & art & eric & tula & ati & lon & miste &
ump & tor & nom & ean & MDI & abu & gla & iri & ls & ale & rar & etic & tul & aat & lion & mis &
ute & TMP & nor & eom & man & adib & gula & liris (51-t)
hyphenated phrases: UDPglucuronate-bilirubinglucuronoside glucuronosyltran : luc & ngu & biro & run & lio &
bis & eid & teg & nal & rou & ucu & UCR & lon & gos & pyl & DTR & uan & glu & inc &
ubu & RRO & lin & bio & ESI & TDE & AGL & nuc & our & ron & uos & cyl & glut & pra &
UDN & rub & lii & ing & blu & tec & aur & no-nos & oid & reg & ulu & CCU & uro & lnos &
gyl & dpt & uran (52)
iv. longest four-way nested progressive 3-5 letter
uncommon words: pancreatocholecystostomy : ole & hcy & cst & too & east & rom & pancy & cho & tole & acy &
est & crost & nom & pay & och & tol & aec & eyst & rost & com & pany & toc & aho & elec &
cryst & nos & atom & py (24)
hyphenated words: philosophico-chorographical : hor & cog & cor & phia & oph & osi & lca & phil & cho &
coro & higra & opp & shi & loc & phial & och & hico & prog & sora & ophic & ila & phl &
coc & hih & poro & sog & lora & iph & hic & pal (26)
phrases: angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia : eno & adp & hat & lymph & icy & twi &
sth & lad & bys & nop & mur & imo & ote & IIN & gem & ania & mph & yad & len & copa & tit & shy &
awit & lhd & oby & uns & M M.P. & OIr & iot & gein & nem & aia & cly & imp & thad & sen & AOP &
lathy & BWI & oth & und & immy & OSp & IRO & gte & nine & amia & ICL & tymp & sha & aden & lop &
bathy- & now & uit & MHD & mys & ipr & oot & gie & nin & aemia (51-t)
phrases: familial hyperchylomicronemia with hyperprebetalipopro : with & IAH & mype & ner & rop & micr &
loeb & hye & rct & pea & hyli & alp & iop & MILR & fao & hyp & the & wir & IAP & EMR & rone & ICB &
-ome & hylt & perca & hyl & ali & lipo & mip & faro & one & RMI & mica & OWI & LTh & yhy & CHP &
ere & prp & hyr & leb & aet & ial & lip & mio & apr & fo & omi & LCR & yon & hemi & caw & eri &
PTH & hyh & lype & arp & lir & iebet & mali & a pop & fro (51-t)
phrases: ligamentum laterale articulationis temporomandibularis : rti & eac & lula & rati & eon & tis &
ate & LMP & umor & tom & nandi & ebula & mri & ligas & ear & alti & RCU & tela & ation & list &
mem & upo & trom & nan & medi & abul & gari & lis & lea & art & eric & tula & ati & lon & miste &
ump & tor & nom & ean & MDI & abu & gla & iri & ls & ale & rar & etic & tul & aat & lion & mis &
ute & TMP & nor & eom & man & adib & gula & liris (51-t)
hyphenated phrases: UDPglucuronate-bilirubinglucuronoside glucuronosyltran : cur & gluon & ino & UBS & iri &
ild & beg & tel & auc & nur & roo & uno & UCS & gly & PLT & dra & un & luc & ngu &
biro & run & lio & bis & eid & teg & nal & rou & ucu & UCR & lon & gos & pyl & DTR &
uan & glu & inc & ubu & RRO & lin & bio & ESI & TDE & AGL & nuc & our & ron & uos &
cyl & glut & pra & UDN & rub & lii & ing & blu & tec & aur & no-nos & oid & reg & ulu &
CCU & uro & lnos & gyl & dpt & uran (52)
v. longest five-way nested progressive 3-5 letter
uncommon words: historicophilosophicals : ilo & phs & coo & iph & ric & toal & hiss & hil & opo & ics &
rop & tohi & scal & his & phi & col & rio & oso & tph & sica & hils & oph & ici & orlos &
top & shi & ical & hs & cop & rih & oil & tos & sophi & ica & hls (23-t)
uncommon words: ureteropyelonephritides : one & yelp & oph & err & titi & rede & us & lon & yee & opp &
erh & triti & ede & urs & elo & pyn & roe & eph & trit & eid & ures & pye & olon & rep &
tehri & eti & urdes & opy & rel & eon & tep & ehr & riti & udes (23-t)
uncommon words: polytetrafluorethylenes : ret & luoh & fyle & ran & tete & polys & ore & uth & fly & tral &
tee & lyn & poes & luo & afr & tre & eth & tyl & lye & pones & flu & rao & etr & tet & yhy &
ollen & pes & tra & efl & tuo & lyre & othyl & penes (23-t)
hyphenated words: photofluorographicalliest : rap & ogh & ori & luc & fal & tol & oies & pht & gra & rop &
luoh & fic & toal & holie & pst & rog & fluor & oaph & tica & olli & hes & pt & oro &
lug & fra & oph & otic & halli & pest & luo & frog & ora & tph & -oic & hall & piest (25)
phrases: angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia : thy & paw & noit & deh & had & pys & MPR &
lyo & ICT & aste & BLI & non & mue & IMM & ioi & anga & eno & adp & hat & lymph & icy & twi & sth &
lad & bys & nop & mur & imo & ote & IIN & gem & ania & mph & yad & len & copa & tit & shy & awit &
lhd & oby & uns & M M.P. & OIr & iot & gein & nem & aia & cly & imp & thad & sen & AOP & lathy &
BWI & oth & und & immy & OSp & IRO & gte & nine & amia & ICL & tymp & sha & aden & lop & bathy- &
now & uit & MHD & mys & ipr & oot & gie & nin & aemia (51-t)
phrases: ligamentum laterale articulationis temporomandibularis : tic & aru & ela & alt & rion & eist &
temp & aor & lom & mandi & tub & nul & mea & ari & ligs & rti & eac & lula & rati & eon & tis &
ate & LMP & umor & tom & nandi & ebula & mri & ligas & ear & alti & RCU & tela & ation & list &
mem & upo & trom & nan & medi & abul & gari & lis & lea & art & eric & tula & ati & lon & miste &
ump & tor & nom & ean & MDI & abu & gla & iri & ls & ale & rar & etic & tul & aat & lion & mis &
ute & TMP & nor & eom & man & adib & gula & liris (51-t)
vi. centred embedded word (word placed exactly in the middle of a longer word), longest [34-237,34-282]
common word: harMONICAlly
uncommon word: unirRITAting
uncommon word: deFLORAte
vii. all words within a word, most [40-232]
e.g. INDUSTRIALIZATION: in, dust, trial, at, on, rial, ion
e.g. AIT: a, i, t, ai, it, at, ti, ia, ta, ait (10)
viii. embedded relation (embedded word related in meaning) [43-29]
e.g. pRUNing: RUN inside PING
e.g. fINNed: INN inside FED
e.g. compliCATed: CAT inside COMPLIED
ix. Scunthorpe word (innocent word containing an offensive string) [WW53.2-29]
common word: Scunthorpe
uncommon word: Penistone
x. totally disconnected internal word (word spelled by non-adjacent letters of a longer word), longest; also
longest unrelated internal word [26-237]
e.g. DEMENTIAL in aDrEnoMyEloNeuropaThIcAlLy
e.g. unrelated internal words: mechANOTHERapy; paINTERLINESs
e. charlinkade (word that can be broken up into both concatenated words and overlapping words), longest composed of common
words [11-150]
common words: amalgamations : am & alga & mat & ions & am & ma & alga & am & ma & at & ti & ions (13)
f. balanced compound word (word is a concatenation of equal-sized smaller words), longest
[11-124,191,214,232,12-23,52,13-28,88]
common words: accountability : account & ability (14-t)
common words: addressability : address & ability (14-t)
common words: collectability : collect & ability (14-t)
common words: counterbalance : counter & balance (14-t)
common words: counterchanged : counter & changed (14-t)
common words: counterculture : counter & culture (14-t)
common words: chickenhearted : chicken & hearted (14-t)
common words: convertibility : convert & ibility (14-t)
common words: christological : christo & logical (14-t)
... and 37 others
uncommon words: phosphatidylethanolamine : phosphatidyl & ethanolamine (24-t)
uncommon words: formaldehydesulfoxylates : formaldehyde & sulfoxylates (24-t)
uncommon words: trimethylenetrinitramine : trimethylene & trinitramine (24-t)
uncommon words: deoxyribosyltransferases : deoxyribosyl & transferases (24-t)
uncommon words: formaldehydesulphoxylate : formaldehyde & sulphoxylate (24-t)
phrases: minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory : minnesota Multiphasic & personality inventory (40-t)
phrases: minnesota multiphasic personality inventory : minnesota Multiphasic & personality inventory (40-t)
g. hidden reversals [23-55]
h. ana-gram-mar chains [23-248]
i. word interlocks [26-219]
j. shufflegram (riffle-interleave several words, each kept in order) [32-309]
e.g. DIRT + MESS + GUN + LENT shuffled = DISGRUNTLEMENTS
e.g. TINILY + RENAL = TRIENNIALLY (perfect shuffle)
k. terminal word (formed by the first and last letters of the words of a phrase) [WW51.2-56,WW52.2-44]
e.g. SALT AIR > STAR
e.g. FINE ART > FEAT
l. reverse charade (reversal splits into a phrase) [30-117]
e.g. PARTIZAN > NAZI TRAP
e.g. EXAMINED > DENIM AXE
e.g. MUSKRATS > STARK SUM
m. buried word (hidden across word boundaries in a phrase or sentence)
[31-140,31-212,32-106,32-283,36-297,37-108,38-186,40-93,41-173]
e.g. maryLAND MASSachusetts
e.g. minnesotA MISSissippi
i. insider sentence or self-hiding clue (sentence that hints at or defines a word hidden in its consecutive letters
across word breaks), longest insider word [47-297,48-14]
e.g. "Some teenagerS' LANGuage" (slang)
n. common-ending removal (the remainders of two words with the same ending join to a word) [WW52.3-68]
e.g. PASS.ION + PORT.ION > PASSPORT
i. common-beginning removal (two words sharing initial letters are beheaded of them and the remainders join to a
word) [48-65]
e.g. ACES + ACETONE > S + TONE = STONE
e.g. BANJO + BANKER > JO + KER = JOKER
o. letter-arithmetic charade (word obtained by adding and subtracting other words letter by letter) [4-245]
e.g. MARCH - ARCH + COT + HERS - SC = MOTHER
p. word cross (two words exchange segments to make two new words: morass + jackal = jackass + moral) [6-234]
e.g. MOR.ASS + JACK.AL = JACKASS + MORAL
q. may-all-your toast (wish in which a word reappears as the end of a longer word with a happier or harsher sense) [47-32]
e.g. May all your pains be champagnes
e.g. May all your trophies be catastrophes (harsher)
letter bank (words formed from letters selected from a set)
e.g., ABCD yields the words A, AB, AD, ADD, BAD, CAB, CAD, etc.
a. words extracted from same letter bank, longest list
common words: aster : rates & setar & stare & tares & taser & tears & arrest & assert & asters & easter & eaters &
rarest & raster & raters & reseat & seater & stares & stater & taster & taters & teaser & teresa &
tetras & treats & aerates & arrests & asserts & astarte & rasters & ratters & restart & restate &
seaters & starter & staters & tasters & tatters & teasers & tessera & arrestee & arrester & esterase &
reassert & restarts & restates & retreats & starters & arrestees (49)
uncommon words: anestri : antsier & asterin & atrines & eirants & eranist & estrain & nariest & nastier & neritas &
ranites & ranties & ratines & resiant & restain & retains & retians & retinas & retsina & sainter &
satiner & stainer & starnie & stearin & stiarne & taniers & tearins & tersina & traines & trenais &
antisera & arenites & aretines & arsenite & artesian & artiness & asterina & asternia & enstrait &
entrains & eranists & erastian & estrains & inarates & inertias & intraest & intraste & intrates &
intreats & issanter & narinest & nitrates & raetians & rainiest & raninest & ratanies & reniants &
resiants & resinata & resinate & restains & restrain & retinaes & retrains & retsinas & riantest &
santeria & satinier & satinner & satirien & seatrain & sineater & snariest & stainers & stainier &
stanerie & stannier & starnier & starnies & stearine & stearins & stiarnes & strainer & straiten &
stranies & tainters & tanister & tanniers & tartines & tasianer & tastiner & teasiner & teresian &
teresina & terrains & tertians & tintares & trainees & trainers & trainest & trannies & transien &
transies & transire & transite & treatins & treenais & trenaies & triaenes & triennas & trientas &
trinaest & trinares & trinates & antirents & antsirane & ariannest & aristenes & aristenia &
arseniate & arsenites & artesians & artinites & artsiness & atestiner & atrienses & atriensis &
attainers & enstraits & erastians & eriannest & eritreans & estraiten & etesianer & inertiaes &
instanter & interarts & intranets & intrastes & irateness & iriannest & irresiant & istrianer &
nasserist & nasserite & neateries & neritinas & rattanies & rattiness & rattinets & reattains &
reinstate & resanatia & resianter & resinatas & resinates & resistant & restrains & restraint &
retainers & retirants & retransit & saernaite & sanitaire & sanitiser & santerias & sartinest &
satanries & seatainer & seatrains & snarriest & staneries & stannerie & stanniers & staranise &
starniest & stearerin & stearines & sterninae & strainers & straitens & streinant & tainteres &
tanisters & tanneries & tarriness & tarsianer & tartiness & tasianner & tastinner & tatterins &
teariness & tearinest & tearstain & teasinner & teresians & ternaries & terraines & trainnest &
trainster & transiens & transient & transires & transiter & treenaies & triennias & trinaries &
aeriannest & anatrienes & anserinest & antiarises & antistater & antistress & antritises &
arietinest & arretinest & arseniater & arseniates & artesianer & artinesser & artinesses &
artisanate & astrantiae & earnesties & earnestine & easternise & enstraiten & entertains &
entrainers & entreaties & entreatise & erastianer & errantries & estraitens & etesianner &
inertiaest & insatiater & insensater & insertatia & intarsiate & interiaest & interserta &
interstate & interstria & intertears & intestater & intrastate & intreaters & intreaties &
istrianner & itineraest & itinerants & itinerates & naissanter & nasserists & nasserites &
natteriest & nestiatria & nitratines & nitriaries & raisiniest & reastiness & reinitiats &
reinstates & renaissant & resianties & resistante & resistants & restrainer & restraints &
retiarians & retrainees & sanitaires & sanitarier & sanitaries & sanitisers & sartrianer &
satiriener & seatainers & seriannest & sertanista & sierranest & sinistraer & siriannest &
staineress & stannaries & stannerier & stannieres & starriness & stearerins & steinerian &
sterninaes & straitness & streinants & tanisteres & tanistries & tarentines & tarratines &
tarsianner & tartanries & tartarines & tartessian & tearinnest & tearstains & tenantries &
teresianer & ternariest & terranians & tertianest & tiretaines & traineress & traininest &
trainsters & traistness & transiener & transients & transiters & tranteries & trasentine &
treatinest & triennaest & trientaest & trinarrest & tristanite & tristearin & anatriaenes &
antennarias & antirenters & areastiness & arseniatest & artesianner & artisanates & artisanries &
artsinesses & assistanter & ateriannest & attriteness & enstatitier & enstraitens & entreatises &
erariannest & erastianner & essentiater & estratriene & inartistier & inerrantist & initiatress &
instanterer & instantiaer & intenerates & interstater & interstates & interstitia & interstrain &
interteares & intestanter & intestinaer & intransient & intransiter & iraniannest & iratenesses &
irresianter & istriannest & itineraries & itineratest & nitriannest & rattinesses & reenstierna &
reinitiates & resistanter & resistantes & restrainers & sartrianner & satirienest & satirienner &
seataineres & serenitatis & sertanistas & sierrannest & sinistraest & stainierite & stanneriest &
statarianer & steinerians & tarentinest & tarrinesses & tarsiannest & tartarinest & tartessians &
tartinesses & tatterinest & tearinesses & teresianner & ternariants & ternariness & tertiannest &
tesserarian & traininnest & trainsteres & transienest & transienner & transienter & transtainer &
treatinnest & trienniaest & trinitaries & trinitrates & trisnitrate & tristanites & tristearins &
aeternitatis & artesiannest & artinessness & assentienter & entertainers & entertainess &
erastiannest & inartistiest & inessentiaer & inirritanest & insanitarier & instantanier &
instanterest & instanterrer & inteneratest & intersertaer & interstatest & interstrains &
interstriaer & intransitest & intransitter & irritatinest & itinerarians & ranariannest &
raniniannest & reastinesses & renaissanter & retiniannest & sanitarianer & sanitariness &
sartriannest & satiriennest & sireniannest & staineresses & stainierites & starrinesses &
statarianner & stearineries & steinerianer & straitnesses & tartarinnest & tatterinnest &
teresiannest & traineresses & traistnesses & transiennest & transientest & transtainers &
trienniatest & trisnitrates & triternatest & antiresistant & areastinesses & attritenesses &
einsteinianer & eternitarians & inirritannest & initiatresses & instanterrest & intersertaest &
interstitiate & interstrainer & interstriaest & interstriatia & intransienter & intransittest &
intrastitiaer & irritatinnest & retiariannest & sanitarianner & sententiarian & sententiarier &
sententiaries & sententiarist & statariannest & steinerianner & tartariannest & tartarinatest &
terentiannest & ternariannest & ternarinesses & tetranitrates & transientness & transtaineres &
trinitariaest & triternattest & antisensitiser & assassinatress & einsteinianner & entertainesses &
insanitariness & interstitiater & interstrainest & interstrainner & intrastitiaest &
sanitariannest & sanitarinesses & sententiarians & sententiarists & steineriannest &
transessentiat & antisensitisers & interstitiatest & interstrainnest & itinerariannest &
transessentiate & transessentiats & transientnesses & assassinatresses & insanitarinesses &
transessentiater & transessentiates & transessentiatin & antitrinitariaest & intertrinitarians &
transessentiatest & transessentiatins & transessentiatter & transessentiattest (529)
hyphenated words: anestri : antsier & asterin & atrines & eirants & eranist & estrain & nariest & nastier &
neritas & ranites & ranties & ratines & resiant & restain & retains & retians & retinas &
retsina & sainter & satiner & stainer & starnie & stearin & stiarne & taniers & tearins &
tersina & traines & trenais & antisera & arenites & aretines & arsenite & artesian & artiness &
asterina & asternia & enstrait & entrains & eranists & erastian & estrains & inarates & inertias &
intraest & intraste & intrates & intreats & issanter & narinest & nitrates & raetians & rainiest &
raninest & ratanies & re-strain & reniants & resiants & resinata & resinate & restains &
restrain & retinaes & retrains & retsinas & riantest & santeria & satinier & satinner & satirien &
seatrain & sin-eater & sineater & snariest & stainers & stainier & stanerie & stannier &
starnier & starnies & stearine & stearins & stiarnes & strainer & straiten & stranies & tainters &
tanister & tanniers & tartines & tasianer & tastiner & teasiner & teresian & teresina & terrains &
tertians & tintares & trainees & trainers & trainest & trannies & transien & transies & transire &
transite & treatins & treenais & trenaies & triaenes & triennas & trientas & trinaest & trinares &
trinates & antirents & antsirane & ariannest & aristenes & aristenia & arseniate & arsenites &
artesians & artinites & artsiness & atestiner & atrienses & atriensis & attainers & enstraits &
erastians & eriannest & eritreans & estraiten & etesianer & inertiaes & instanter & inter-arts &
interarts & intranets & intrastes & irateness & iriannest & irresiant & istrianer & nasserist &
nasserite & neateries & neritinas & rattanies & rattiness & rattinets & re-strains & reattains &
reinstate & resanatia & resianter & resinatas & resinates & resistant & restrains & restraint &
retainers & retirants & retransit & saernaite & sanitaire & sanitiser & santerias & sartinest &
satanries & seatainer & seatrains & sin-eaters & snarriest & staneries & stannerie & stanniers &
star-anise & staranise & starniest & stearerin & stearines & sterninae & strainers & straitens &
streinant & tainteres & tanisters & tanneries & tarriness & tarsianer & tartiness & tasianner &
tastinner & tatterins & teariness & tearinest & tearstain & teasinner & teresians & ternaries &
terraines & trainnest & trainster & transiens & transient & transires & transiter & treenaies &
triennias & trinaries & aeriannest & anatrienes & anserinest & antiarises & antistater &
antistress & antritises & arietinest & arretinest & arseniater & arseniates & artesianer &
artinesser & artinesses & artisanate & astrantiae & earnesties & earnestine & easternise &
enstraiten & entertains & entrainers & entreaties & entreatise & erastianer & errantries &
estraitens & etesianner & inertiaest & insatiater & insensater & insertatia & intarsiate &
interiaest & interserta & interstate & interstria & intertears & intestater & intrastate &
intreaters & intreaties & istrianner & itineraest & itinerants & itinerates & naissanter &
nasserists & nasserites & natteriest & nestiatria & nitratines & nitriaries & raisiniest &
re-restrain & reastiness & reinitiats & reinstates & renaissant & rent-raiser & resianties &
resistante & resistants & restrainer & restraints & retiarians & retrainees & sanitaires &
sanitarier & sanitaries & sanitisers & sartrianer & satiriener & seatainers & seriannest &
sertanista & sierranest & sinistraer & siriannest & staineress & stannaries & stannerier &
stannieres & starriness & stearerins & steinerian & sterninaes & straitness & streinants &
tanisteres & tanistries & tarentines & tarratines & tarsianner & tartanries & tartarines &
tartessian & tearinnest & tearstains & tenantries & teresianer & ternariest & terranians &
tertianest & tiretaines & traineress & traininest & trainsters & traistness & transiener &
transients & transiters & tranteries & trasentine & treatinest & triennaest & trientaest &
trinarrest & tristanite & tristearin & anatriaenes & antennarias & antirenters & areastiness &
arseniatest & artesianner & artisanates & artisanries & artsinesses & assistanter & ateriannest &
attriteness & enstatitier & enstraitens & entreatises & erariannest & erastianner & essentiater &
estratriene & inartistier & inerrantist & initiatress & instanterer & instantiaer & intenerates &
inter-strain & interstater & interstates & interstitia & interstrain & interteares & intestanter &
intestinaer & intransient & intransiter & iraniannest & iratenesses & irresianter & istriannest &
itineraries & itineratest & nitriannest & rattinesses & re-restraint & reenstierna & reinitiates &
resistanter & resistantes & restrainers & saint-errant & sartrianner & satirienest & satirienner &
seataineres & serenitatis & sertanistas & sierrannest & sinistraest & sister-train & stainierite &
stanneriest & statarianer & steinerians & tarentinest & tarrinesses & tarsiannest & tartarinest &
tartessians & tartinesses & tatterinest & tea-strainer & tearinesses & teresianner & ternariants &
ternariness & tertiannest & tesserarian & traininnest & trainsteres & transienest & transienner &
transienter & transtainer & treatinnest & trienniaest & trinitaries & trinitrates & trisnitrate &
tristanites & tristearins & aeternitatis & artesiannest & artinessness & assentienter &
entertainers & entertainess & erastiannest & inartistiest & inessentiaer & inirritanest &
insanitarier & instantanier & instanterest & instanterrer & inteneratest & interest-rate &
intersertaer & interstatest & interstrains & interstriaer & intransitest & intransitter &
irritatinest & itinerarians & ranariannest & raniniannest & reastinesses & renaissanter &
retiniannest & saint-errants & saints-errant & sanitarianer & sanitariness & sartriannest &
satiriennest & sireniannest & staineresses & stainierites & starrinesses & statarianner &
stearineries & steinerianer & straitnesses & stress-strain & tartarinnest & tatterinnest &
tea-strainers & teresiannest & traineresses & traistnesses & transiennest & transientest &
transtainers & trienniatest & trisnitrates & triternatest & antiresistant & areastinesses &
attritenesses & einsteinianer & eternitarians & inirritannest & initiatresses & instanterrest &
intersertaest & interstitiate & interstrainer & interstriaest & interstriatia & intransienter &
intransittest & intrastitiaer & irritatinnest & rain-resistant & retiariannest & sanitarianner &
sententiarian & sententiarier & sententiaries & sententiarist & statariannest & steinerianner &
tartariannest & tartarinatest & terentiannest & ternariannest & ternarinesses & tetranitrates &
transientness & transtaineres & trinitariaest & triternattest & antisensitiser & assassinatress &
einsteinianner & entertainesses & insanitariness & interstitiater & interstrainest &
interstrainner & intrastitiaest & sanitariannest & sanitarinesses & sententiarians &
sententiarists & steineriannest & transessentiat & antisensitisers & interstitiatest &
interstrainnest & itinerariannest & transessentiate & transessentiats & transientnesses &
assassinatresses & insanitarinesses & transessentiater & transessentiates & transessentiatin &
antitrinitariaest & intertrinitarians & transessentiatest & transessentiatins &
transessentiatter & transessentiattest (548)
phrases: anestri : antsier & asterin & atrines & eirants & eranist & estrain & in tears & nariest & nastier &
neritas & ranites & ranties & ratines & resiant & restain & retains & retians & retina's & retinas &
retsina & sainter & satiner & stainer & starnie & stearin & stiarne & taniers & tearins & tersina & tin
arse & tin ears & traines & trenais & Erastian & antisera & arenites & aretines & arsenite & artesian &
artiness & asterina & asternia & enstrait & entrains & eranists & erastian & estrains & in arrest &
inarates & inertia's & inertias & inertias% & intraest & intraste & intrates & intreats & issanter &
narinest & nitrate's & nitrates & raetians & rainiest & raninest & ratanies & re-strain & reniants &
resiants & resinata & resinate & restains & restrain & retinaes & retrains & retsina's & retsinas &
retsinas% & riantest & santeria & satinier & satinner & satirien & sea train & seatrain & sin eater &
sin-eater & sineater & snariest & stainers & stainier & stanerie & stannier & starnier & starnies &
stearine & stearins & stiarnes & strainer & straiten & stranies & tainters & tanister & tanniers &
tartines & tasianer & tastiner & teasiner & teresian & teresina & terrain's & terrains & tertians &
tintares & train set & trainee's & trainees & trainer's & trainers & trainest & trannies & transien &
transies & transire & transite & treatins & treenais & trenaies & triaenes & triennas & trientas &
trinaest & trinares & trinates & Erastians & Santerias & anise tree & antirents & antsirane & ariannest &
aristenes & aristenia & arseniate & arsenites & artesians & artiness's & artinites & artsiness &
atestiner & atrienses & atriensis & attainers & enstraits & erastians & eriannest & eritrean's &
eritreans & estraiten & etesianer & in earnest & in tatters & inertiaes & instanter & inter-arts &
interarts & intranet's & intranets & intranets! & intrastes & irateness & irateness= & iriannest &
irresiant & istrianer & nasserist & nasserite & neateries & neritinas & rain trees & rattanies &
rattiness & rattinets & re-strains & reattains & reinstate & resanatia & resianter & resinatas &
resinates & resistant & restrains & restraint & retainer's & retainers & retirants & retransit &
saernaite & sanitaire & sanitiser & santeria's & santerias & sartinest & satanries & sea trains &
seatainer & seatrains & sin-eaters & snarriest & staneries & stannerie & stanniers & star anise &
star-anise & staranise & starniest & stearerin & stearines & sterninae & strainer's & strainers &
straitens & streinant & tainteres & tanisters & tanneries & tarriness & tarsianer & tartiness & tasianner &
tastinner & tatterins & teariness & tearinest & tearstain & teasinner & teresians & teresina's &
ternaries & terraines & trainnest & trainster & transiens & transient & transires & transite's &
transiter & treenaies & triennias & trinaries & aeriannest & anatrienes & anserinest & antiarises &
antistater & antistress & antritises & arietinest & arretinest & arseniater & arseniates & artesianer &
artinesser & artinesses & artinesses% & artisanate & astrantiae & atresia ani & earnesties & earnestine &
easternise & enstraiten & entertains & entrainers & entreaties & entreatise & erastianer & errantries &
estraitens & etesianner & inertiaest & insatiater & insensater & insertatia & intarsiate & interiaest &
interserta & interstate & interstria & intertears & intestater & intrastate & intreaters & intreaties &
irateness's & istrianner & itineraest & itinerant's & itinerants & itinerates & naissanter & nasserists &
nasserites & natteriest & nestiatria & nitratines & nitriaries & nitta trees & raisin tree & raisiniest &
re-restrain & reastiness & reinitiats & reinstates & renaissant & rent-raiser & resianties & resistante &
resistants & restrainer & restraint's & restraints & retiarians & retrainees & sanitaires & sanitarier &
sanitaries & sanitisers & sartrianer & satiriener & seatainers & seriannest & sertanista & sierranest &
sinistraer & siriannest & staineress & stannaries & stannerier & stannieres & star anises & starriness &
stearerins & steinerian & sterninaes & straitness & streinants & tanisteres & tanistries & tarentines &
tarratines & tarsianner & tartanries & tartarines & tartessian & tearinnest & tearstains & tenantries &
tenantries% & teresianer & ternariest & terranians & tertianest & tiretaines & traineress & traininest &
trainsters & traistness & transiener & transient's & transients & transiters & tranteries & trasentine &
treatinest & triennaest & trientaest & trinarrest & tristanite & tristearin & air strainer & anatriaenes &
antennarias & antiar resin & antirenters & areastiness & arseniatest & artesianner & artisanates &
artisanries & artsinesses & assistanter & ateriannest & attriteness & earnestine's & eastern Rite & eastern
rite & enstatitier & enstraitens & entreatises & erariannest & erastianner & essentiater & estratriene &
inartistier & inerrantist & initiatress & instanterer & instantiaer & intenerates & inter-strain &
interstate's & interstater & interstates & interstitia & interstrain & interteares & intestanter &
intestinaer & intransient & intransiter & iraniannest & iratenesses & iratenesses% & irresianter &
istriannest & itineraries & itineratest & nitriannest & raisin trees & rattinesses & re-restraint &
reenstierna & reinitiates & resistanter & resistantes & restrainer's & restrainers & saint-errant &
sartrianner & satirienest & satirienner & seataineres & serenitatis & sertanistas & sierrannest &
sinistraest & sister-train & stainierite & stanneriest & statarianer & steinerians & tarentinest & tarin's
tenia & tarrinesses & tarsiannest & tartarinest & tarte tatins & tartes tatin & tartessians & tartinesses &
tatterinest & tea strainer & tea-strainer & tearinesses & teresianner & ternariants & ternariness & terra
Sienna & terra sienna & tertiannest & tesserarian & traininnest & trainsteres & transienest & transienner &
transienter & transit rate & transit site & transtainer & treatinnest & trienniaest & trinitaries &
trinitrates & trisnitrate & tristanites & tristearins & aeternitatis & antisense RNA & artesiannest &
artinessness & assentienter & eastern rites & entertainer's & entertainers & entertainess & erastiannest &
inartistiest & inessentiaer & inirritanest & insanitarier & instantanier & instanterest & instanterrer &
inteneratest & interest rate & interest-rate & intersertaer & interstatest & interstrains & interstriaer &
intransitest & intransitter & irritatinest & itinerarians & ranariannest & raniniannest & reastinesses &
renaissanter & retiniannest & saint-errants & saints-errant & sanitarianer & sanitariness & sartriannest &
satiriennest & sireniannest & staineresses & stainierites & starrinesses & statarianner & stearineries &
steinerianer & straitnesses & stress-strain & tartarinnest & tatterinnest & tea-strainers & teresiannest &
terra siennas & train starter & traineresses & traistnesses & transiennest & transientest & transit rates &
transtainers & trienniatest & trisnitrates & triternatest & antiresistant & areastinesses & arteriae
renis & attritenesses & einsteinianer & eternitarians & inirritannest & initiatresses & instanterrest &
interest rates & intersertaest & interstitiate & interstrainer & interstriaest & interstriatia &
intransienter & intransittest & intrastitiaer & irritatinnest & neisser's stain & rain-resistant &
retiariannest & sanitarianner & sententiarian & sententiarier & sententiaries & sententiarist & snare
strainer & statariannest & steinerianner & striae retinae & tartariannest & tartarinatest & terentiannest &
ternariannest & ternarinesses & tetranitrates & transientness & transtaineres & trinitariaest &
triternattest & antisensitiser & assassinatress & einsteinianner & entertainesses & inertia starter &
insanitariness & interstitiater & interstrainest & interstrainner & intrastitiaest & ranine arteries &
sanitariannest & sanitarinesses & sententiarians & sententiarists & steineriannest & tartarian aster &
tesserarian art & transessentiat & transient state & antisensitiser's & antisensitisers & inertia
starters & interstitiatest & interstrainnest & itinerariannest & tartarian asters & transessentiate &
transessentiats & transientnesses & assassinatresses & insanitarinesses & transessentiater &
transessentiates & transessentiatin & antitrinitariaest & intertrinitarians & transessentiatest &
transessentiatins & transessentiatter & transessentiattest (630)
hyphenated phrases: anestri : antsier & asterin & atrines & eirants & eranist & estrain & in tears & nariest &
nastier & neritas & ranites & ranties & ratines & resiant & restain & retains & retians &
retina's & retinas & retsina & sainter & satiner & stainer & starnie & stearin & stiarne &
taniers & tearins & tersina & tin arse & tin ears & traines & trenais & Erastian & antisera &
arenites & aretines & arsenite & artesian & artiness & asterina & asternia & enstrait &
entrains & eranists & erastian & estrains & in arrest & inarates & inertia's & inertias &
inertias% & intraest & intraste & intrates & intreats & issanter & narinest & nitrate's &
nitrates & raetians & rainiest & raninest & ratanies & re-strain & reniants & resiants &
resinata & resinate & restains & restrain & retinaes & retrains & retsina's & retsinas &
retsinas% & riantest & santeria & satinier & satinner & satirien & sea train & seatrain & sin
eater & sin-eater & sineater & snariest & stainers & stainier & stanerie & stannier & starnier &
starnies & stearine & stearins & stiarnes & strainer & straiten & stranies & tainters &
tanister & tanniers & tartines & tasianer & tastiner & teasiner & teresian & teresina &
terrain's & terrains & tertians & tintares & train set & trainee's & trainees & trainer's &
trainers & trainest & trannies & transien & transies & transire & transite & treatins &
treenais & trenaies & triaenes & triennas & trientas & trinaest & trinares & trinates &
Erastians & Santerias & anise tree & antirents & antsirane & ariannest & aristenes & aristenia &
arseniate & arsenites & artesians & artiness's & artinites & artsiness & atestiner & atrienses &
atriensis & attainers & enstraits & erastians & eriannest & eritrean's & eritreans & estraiten &
etesianer & in earnest & in tatters & inertiaes & instanter & inter-arts & interarts &
intranet's & intranets & intranets! & intrastes & irateness & irateness= & iriannest &
irresiant & istrianer & nasserist & nasserite & neateries & neritinas & rain trees & rattanies &
rattiness & rattinets & re-strains & reattains & reinstate & resanatia & resianter & resinatas &
resinates & resistant & restrains & restraint & retainer's & retainers & retirants & retransit &
saernaite & sanitaire & sanitiser & santeria's & santerias & sartinest & satanries & sea
trains & seatainer & seatrains & sin-eaters & snarriest & staneries & stannerie & stanniers &
star anise & star-anise & staranise & starniest & stearerin & stearines & sterninae &
strainer's & strainers & straitens & streinant & tainteres & tanisters & tanneries & tarriness &
tarsianer & tartiness & tasianner & tastinner & tatterins & teariness & tearinest & tearstain &
teasinner & teresians & teresina's & ternaries & terraines & trainnest & trainster & transiens &
transient & transires & transite's & transiter & treenaies & triennias & trinaries &
aeriannest & anatrienes & anserinest & antiarises & antistater & antistress & antritises &
arietinest & arretinest & arseniater & arseniates & artesianer & artinesser & artinesses &
artinesses% & artisanate & astrantiae & atresia ani & earnesties & earnestine & easternise &
enstraiten & entertains & entrainers & entreaties & entreatise & erastianer & errantries &
estraitens & etesianner & inertiaest & insatiater & insensater & insertatia & intarsiate &
interiaest & interserta & interstate & interstria & intertears & intestater & intrastate &
intreaters & intreaties & irateness's & istrianner & itineraest & itinerant's & itinerants &
itinerates & naissanter & nasserists & nasserites & natteriest & nestiatria & nitratines &
nitriaries & nitta trees & raisin tree & raisiniest & re-restrain & reastiness & reinitiats &
reinstates & renaissant & rent-raiser & resianties & resistante & resistants & restrainer &
restraint's & restraints & retiarians & retrainees & sanitaires & sanitarier & sanitaries &
sanitisers & sartrianer & satiriener & seatainers & seriannest & sertanista & sierranest &
sinistraer & siriannest & staineress & stannaries & stannerier & stannieres & star anises &
starriness & stearerins & steinerian & sterninaes & straitness & streinants & tanisteres &
tanistries & tarentines & tarratines & tarsianner & tartanries & tartarines & tartessian &
tearinnest & tearstains & tenantries & tenantries% & teresianer & ternariest & terranians &
tertianest & tiretaines & traineress & traininest & trainsters & traistness & transiener &
transient's & transients & transiters & tranteries & trasentine & treatinest & triennaest &
trientaest & trinarrest & tristanite & tristearin & air strainer & anatriaenes & antennarias &
antiar resin & antirenters & areastiness & arseniatest & artesianner & artisanates &
artisanries & artsinesses & assistanter & ateriannest & attriteness & earnestine's & eastern
Rite & eastern rite & enstatitier & enstraitens & entreatises & erariannest & erastianner &
essentiater & estratriene & inartistier & inerrantist & initiatress & instanterer &
instantiaer & intenerates & inter-strain & interstate's & interstater & interstates &
interstitia & interstrain & interteares & intestanter & intestinaer & intransient &
intransiter & iraniannest & iratenesses & iratenesses% & irresianter & istriannest &
itineraries & itineratest & nitriannest & raisin trees & rattinesses & re-restraint &
reenstierna & reinitiates & resistanter & resistantes & restrainer's & restrainers &
saint-errant & sartrianner & satirienest & satirienner & seataineres & serenitatis &
sertanistas & sierrannest & sinistraest & sister-train & stainierite & stanneriest &
statarianer & steinerians & tarentinest & tarin's tenia & tarrinesses & tarsiannest &
tartarinest & tarte tatins & tartes tatin & tartessians & tartinesses & tatterinest & tea
strainer & tea-strainer & tearinesses & teresianner & ternariants & ternariness & terra Sienna &
terra sienna & tertiannest & tesserarian & traininnest & trainsteres & transienest &
transienner & transienter & transit rate & transit site & transtainer & treatinnest &
trienniaest & trinitaries & trinitrates & trisnitrate & tristanites & tristearins &
aeternitatis & antisense RNA & artesiannest & artinessness & assentienter & eastern rites &
entertainer's & entertainers & entertainess & erastiannest & inartistiest & inessentiaer &
inirritanest & insanitarier & instantanier & instanterest & instanterrer & inteneratest &
interest rate & interest-rate & intersertaer & interstatest & interstrains & interstriaer &
intransitest & intransitter & irritatinest & itinerarians & ranariannest & raniniannest &
reastinesses & renaissanter & retiniannest & saint-errants & saints-errant & sanitarianer &
sanitariness & sartriannest & satiriennest & sireniannest & staineresses & stainierites &
starrinesses & statarianner & stearineries & steinerianer & straitnesses & stress-strain &
tartarinnest & tatterinnest & tea-strainers & teresiannest & terra siennas & train starter &
traineresses & traistnesses & trans-Sierran & transiennest & transientest & transit rates &
transtainers & trienniatest & trisnitrates & triternatest & antiresistant & areastinesses &
arteriae renis & attritenesses & einsteinianer & eternitarians & inirritannest & initiatresses &
instanterrest & interest rates & intersertaest & interstitiate & interstrainer & interstriaest &
interstriatia & intransienter & intransittest & intrastitiaer & irritatinnest & neisser's
stain & rain-resistant & retiariannest & sanitarianner & sententiarian & sententiarier &
sententiaries & sententiarist & snare strainer & statariannest & steinerianner & striae
retinae & tartariannest & tartarinatest & terentiannest & ternariannest & ternarinesses &
tetranitrates & transientness & transtaineres & trinitariaest & triternattest & antisensitiser &
assassinatress & einsteinianner & entertainesses & inertia starter & insanitariness &
interstitiater & interstrainest & interstrainner & intrastitiaest & ranine arteries &
sanitariannest & sanitarinesses & sententiarians & sententiarists & steineriannest & tartarian
aster & tesserarian art & transessentiat & transient state & antisensitiser's &
antisensitisers & inertia starters & interstitiatest & interstrainnest & itinerariannest &
tartarian asters & transessentiate & transessentiats & transientnesses & assassinatresses &
insanitarinesses & transessentiater & transessentiates & transessentiatin & antitrinitariaest &
intertrinitarians & transessentiatest & transessentiatins & transessentiatter &
transessentiattest (631)
b. unique letter bank, longest
common words: individualization (17-t)
common words: intellectualizing (17-t)
common words: manufacturability (17-t)
common words: multidisciplinary (17-t)
common words: straightforwardly (17-t)
common words: uncomprehendingly (17-t)
uncommon words: llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogo (54)
c. letter bank that is a word, longest
common words: densenesses => dens (11-t)
common words: mississippi => imps (11-t)
uncommon words: palaeogeologies => aegilops (15)
hyphenated words: heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh => eh (18)
hyphenated phrases: horseshoe, horse-shoe door => dehors (22)
d. letter bank that transposes to a word, longest
common words: interdenominational => intermodal (19)
uncommon words: nepparterrestaalplaatserretrappen => pantlers (33)
phrases: international Telecommunications Satellite Organisatio => clamouringest (51)
e. ratio of longest word to shortest, highest
common words: lemnos & lemnos & lonesomenesses (2.33)
uncommon words: ho & ho & hohohohohohoh (6.5)
hyphenated words: eh & ee-hee & heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh (9)
f. deletion from letter bank
i. longest well-mixed
common words: immunoprecipitations => minicomputers (20)
uncommon words: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosises => consumptivelier (47)
phrases: llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogo => the battle of Waterloo was won on the
playing fields o (54)
ii. longest not well-mixed
common words: electrophysiological => electrophysiology (20-t)
common words: immunoprecipitations => minicomputers (20-t)
uncommon words: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosises => consumptivelier (47)
phrases: llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogo => the battle of Waterloo was won on the
playing fields o (54)
iii. longest progressive
common words: comprehensibility => incomprehensibly => incomprehensible => incompressible => compressible =>
compliers => implores => imposer => primos => proms => pros => poops => ps => ss (14-t)
common words: incomprehensibility => incomprehensibly => incomprehensible => incompressible => compressible
=> compliers => implores => imposer => primos => proms => pros => poops => ps => ss (14-t)
common words: magnetohydrodynamics => thermodynamics => aerodynamicists => discriminatory => idiosyncratic
=> syndication => dynastic => sanctity => satiny => nasty => stays => sty => ys => y (14-t)
uncommon words: pharyngoconjunctivallest => pharyngoconjunctivaler => ventriculography => unpythagoricallier
=> polyurethaning => phenylthiourea => pantoyltaurine => nonpuerility => punitorily =>
unportly => purpoynt => puttyroot => putry => truyt => yutu => yu => y (17-t)
uncommon words: pneumoventriculographyes => pneumoventriculography => ventriculography => unpythagoricallier
=> polyurethaning => phenylthiourea => pantoyltaurine => nonpuerility => punitorily =>
unportly => purpoynt => puttyroot => putry => truyt => yutu => yu => y (17-t)
uncommon words: pneumoventriculographys => pneumoventriculography => ventriculography => unpythagoricallier
=> polyurethaning => phenylthiourea => pantoyltaurine => nonpuerility => punitorily =>
unportly => purpoynt => puttyroot => putry => truyt => yutu => yu => y (17-t)
phrases: communicating branch of facial nerve with glossopharyn => communicating branch of facial nerve with
tympanic ple => inferior part of lingular branch of left pulmonary vei => immaculate conception of
the virgin mary => right inferior pulmonary vein => heavy platinum group => lymphopathia venereum
=> revolutionary proletarian army => trumpet Voluntary => employee turnover => volumenometry =>
volunteerly => overtruly => volutory => voutry => turvy => vutty => vyt => vyv => y (20-t)
phrases: communicating branch of glossopharyngeal nerve with au => communicating branch of facial nerve with
tympanic ple => inferior part of lingular branch of left pulmonary vei => immaculate conception of
the virgin mary => right inferior pulmonary vein => heavy platinum group => lymphopathia venereum
=> revolutionary proletarian army => trumpet Voluntary => employee turnover => volumenometry =>
volunteerly => overtruly => volutory => voutry => turvy => vutty => vyt => vyv => y (20-t)
phrases: communicating branch of superior laryngeal nerve with => communicating branch of facial nerve with
tympanic ple => inferior part of lingular branch of left pulmonary vei => immaculate conception of
the virgin mary => right inferior pulmonary vein => heavy platinum group => lymphopathia venereum
=> revolutionary proletarian army => trumpet Voluntary => employee turnover => volumenometry =>
volunteerly => overtruly => volutory => voutry => turvy => vutty => vyt => vyv => y (20-t)
phrases: secretary of housing and urban development => folliculi lymphatici aggregati appendicis vermiformis
=> five eggs a penny, and four of them addle => rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis => right
superior pulmonary vein => trigonum nervi hypoglossi => polymorphous light eruption => trigonum
hypoglossi => tyroglyphus longior => in short supply => unpropitiously => pruinosity => purpoynts
=> ysprout => spurty => trusty => suty => yutu => yu => y (20-t)
phrases: von Recklinghausen's disease of multiple neurofibromat => von Langenbeck's bipedicle mucoperiosteal
flap => international bank for reconstruction and development => prince otto eduard leopold von
bismarck => turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic => pneumococcal/suppurative keratitis => mount
Revelstoke National Park => superomnivalent => velum interpositum => introsumptivest =>
overpresumptuousness => unprovenest => protervous => overtures => torvous => struvs => surv => suv
=> uv => v (20-t)
phrases: england expects that every man will do his duty => I have nothing to declare except my genius =>
computed axial tomography scanner => potassium hydrogen oxalate => xanthogranulomatous
pyelonephritis => sphenomaxillary suture => extrapleural pneumolysis => extemporaneously =>
supero-externally => proparoxytonouser => proparoxytonous => protosyntax => parantorys =>
prototypons => sporty => tryps => tryst => sty => tyt => y (20-t)
iv. longest well-mixed consonant
common words: indeterminately => detrimental (15-t)
common words: irrationalities => irritants (15-t)
common words: revolutionaries => revelators (15-t)
common words: authoritatively => throttle (15-t)
uncommon words: interpretationallest => intraperitonealliest (20)
v. longest not well-mixed consonant
common words: deinstitutionalization => institutionalization (22)
uncommon words: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosises =>
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses (47)
vi. longest progressive consonant
common words: deconstructionists => constructionists => constructionist => constrictions => instructions =>
interactions => nutritions => iterations => routines => tansy => aeneas => say (12-t)
common words: reconstructionists => constructionists => constructionist => constrictions => instructions =>
interactions => nutritions => iterations => routines => tansy => aeneas => say (12-t)
uncommon words: premonstratensissest => premonstratensisest => premonstratensises => premonstratenses =>
premonstrenses => premonstrense => preministries => poormasters => remasters => mysteries =>
stories => tyers => yores => say (14-t)
uncommon words: disproportionatednesses => disproportionatenesses => disproportionateness =>
disproportionations => disproportionates => superpartients => proportionates =>
opportunities => peritonitis => retinitis => taunts => antis => tees => say (14-t)
uncommon words: omnirepresentativenesses => unrepresentativenesses => representativenesses =>
presentativenesses => presentivenesses => presentnesses => prestnesses => rustinesses =>
suetnesses => tunisses => nesses => sass => souse => say (14-t)
vii. longest well-mixed vowel
common words: straightforwardnesses => microcassette (21)
uncommon words: trinitrophenylmethylnitramines => schizogeneticalliest (30)
phrases: which? what sort? what kind? what thing? what mean => crista conchalis maxillae (38)
viii. longest not well-mixed vowel
common words: deinstitutionalization => institutionalization (22)
uncommon words: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosises =>
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses (47)
phrases: buccopharyngeal part of superior pharyngeal constricto => mylopharyngeal part of superior
pharyngeal constrictor (49-t)
phrases: pars ceratopharyngea musculi constrictoris pharyngis m => pars pterygopharyngea musculi
constrictoris pharyngis (49-t)
phrases: pars cricopharyngea musculi constrictoris pharyngis in => pars thyropharyngea musculi constrictoris
pharyngis in (49-t)
phrases: cricopharyngeal part of inferior pharyngeal constricto => thyropharyngeal part of inferior
pharyngeal constricto (49-t)
ix. longest progressive vowel
common words: authoritativenesses => authoritativeness => authoritatively => approximative =>
nottinghamshire => rivalries => slantwise => swindler => bye (9-t)
common words: dematerialization => materialization => medicalization => dissatisfactions => syllabications
=> fixations => stanchions => dicots => ports (9-t)
common words: deindustrialization => industrialization => christianization => dissatisfactions =>
syllabications => fixations => stanchions => dicots => ports (9-t)
common words: individualization => initialization => christianization => dissatisfactions => syllabications
=> fixations => stanchions => dicots => ports (9-t)
common words: professionalization => regionalization => disorganization => contaminations => syllabications
=> fixations => stanchions => dicots => ports (9-t)
common words: disadvantageousnesses => disadvantageousness => disadvantageously => advantageously =>
papandreou => carrefour => beyoglu => souls => whups (9-t)
uncommon words: palaeometeorological => paleometeorological => mesometeorological => nonmeteorologically =>
meteorological => entomological => orthodontia => mythologically => occitan => mitzvahs =>
rags (11-t)
uncommon words: pancreaticoenterostomies => hepaticoenterostomies => celioenterotomies => biospeleologies =>
roentgenologies => electromotive => metropolises => notoriety => schrodinger => swindler =>
bye (11-t)
uncommon words: antidisestablishmentarianism => antiestablishmentarianism => disestablismentarianism =>
establishmentarianisms => semipelagianism => libertarianism => delaminating => partisanships
=> instancing => shagging => rid (11-t)
uncommon words: antidisestablishmentarianisms => antiestablishmentarianism => disestablismentarianism =>
establishmentarianisms => semipelagianism => libertarianism => delaminating => partisanships
=> instancing => shagging => rid (11-t)
uncommon words: radioimmunologicallier => radiobiologicalliest => sigmoidoscopicallier => codicologicallier
=> ichthyologicalliest => colonialized => nottinghamshire => rivalries => slantwise =>
swindler => bye (11-t)
uncommon words: radioimmunologicalliest => radiobiologicalliest => sigmoidoscopicallier => codicologicallier
=> ichthyologicalliest => colonialized => nottinghamshire => rivalries => slantwise =>
swindler => bye (11-t)
... and 23 others
hyphenated words: arenaceo-argillaceouses => arenaceo-argillaceous => calcareoargillaceous =>
saccharofarinaceous => haloragidaceous => corallinaceous => argillaceous => filamentous =>
carrefour => beyoglu => souls => whups (12)
g. letter-bank text (verse that uses only the letters of a given word) [18-171]
e.g. SUNDAY: As a sad nun assays a dandy's duds
h. word yield (number of words formable from the letters of one word), most [13-236,14-103,15-20]
e.g. PICTURE gives 273 words; PIASTER 717 from the OED alone
e.g. all 255 letter subsets of NEUSTRIA
logogram (word whose letters can be regrouped to form smaller words), longest ratio words to length [5-141,12-170]
common words: ados : ado & dos & ad & do & os & s (2.25-t)
common words: fads : ads & fad & ad & ds & fa & s (2.25-t)
common words: lads : ads & lad & ad & ds & la & s (2.25-t)
common words: pads : ads & pad & ad & ds & pa & s (2.25-t)
common words: fits : fit & its & fi & it & ts & t (2.25-t)
common words: hits : hit & its & hi & it & ts & t (2.25-t)
common words: pits : its & pit & it & pi & ts & t (2.25-t)
uncommon words: tamarines : amarines & tamarine & amarine & marines & tamarin & amarin & arines & marine & tamari &
amari & arine & marin & rines & tamar & amar & arin & ines & mari & rine & tama & ama & ari & ine &
mar & nes & rin & tam & am & ar & es & in & ma & ne & ri & ta & t (4.77)
phrases: contraversest : contraverses & contraverse & traversest & on travers & raversest & traverses & aversest &
traverse & averses & travers & versest & averse & contra & ersest & ravers & traver & verses & avers &
contr & erses & raver & trave & verse & SEST & aver & cont & erse & rave & rses & trav & vers & NTR & RSE &
ave & con & ers & est & ont & rav & ses & tra & ver & av & co & er & es & nt & on & ra & rs & se & st &
tr & ve & v (4.84)
a. word halving (word whose letters split into two equal groups each transposing to a word), most halvings [6-103,7-57]
e.g. THEINA: aie/nth, hen/tai, hin/tea, han/tie, hat/nei, the/ani, hit/ane, tin/hae, ten/hia, tan/hie (10)
bi-logogram (word whose letters can be regrouped and/or reversed to form smaller words), longest ratio words to length [5-141,12-170]
common words: ados : ado & dos & ad & do & os & s (2.25-t)
common words: fads : ads & fad & ad & ds & fa & s (2.25-t)
common words: lads : ads & lad & ad & ds & la & s (2.25-t)
common words: pads : ads & pad & ad & ds & pa & s (2.25-t)
common words: fits : fit & its & fi & it & ts & t (2.25-t)
common words: hits : hit & its & hi & it & ts & t (2.25-t)
common words: pits : its & pit & it & pi & ts & t (2.25-t)
uncommon words: relativest : elativest & relatives & elatives & lativest & relative & elative & latives & vitaler &
lative & tivest & vitale & ative & ivest & taler & tives & vital & aler & elat & ives & lati &
tive & vest & vita & ati & ela & est & ive & lat & rel & tiv & ves & at & el & es & iv & la & re &
st & ti & ve & v (4.8)
phrases: forestallings : forestalling & forestallin & estalling & forestall & stallings & forestal & stalling &
allings & restall & stallin & estall & forest & illats & tallin & 'lling & allin & estal & fores & lings &
orest & stall & talli & alli & esta & fore & ings & ling & nill & ores & rest & stal & tall & all & est &
for & ill & ing & lin & ore & res & sta & tal & al & es & fo & gs & in & li & ll & ng & or & re & st & ta &
t (5)
Subset of Wordgames
a. Hangman, best words to play
see "Hangman" article
b. Jotto [1-21,22-206,29-143,30-3]
see "Crashing Words" article
c. Ghost [4-212,6-26,20-206]
i. shortest guaranteed win when used as first word in game
Qungs, Qutbs
d. Scrabble [5-99,9-211,12-134,153,222,14-11,78,184,230, 15-19,86,107,183,239,16-19,79,155,188,229,17-30,34]
i. highest single word score [7-106,219,12-105,222,14-78,230,15-183,24-147]
common word: psychoanalyzing (1427)
uncommon word: oxyphenbutazone (1508)
hyphenated word: jacquard-weaving (1535)
ii. highest-scoring game [7-163,251,12-134,14-11,15-86,32-281,34-72,36-155,42-259,44-174]
e.g. cooperative Scrabble game totalling 4047 points (Jerome, W2/W3/OED); Francis earlier 3108
iii. text using exactly the 100 tiles [6-233,35-22,45-89,TJ3-62]
e.g. Through sentient, gauzy flame I view life's dread, / quixotic, partial joke. We're vapour-born, ...
iv. Scrabble palindrome (tile values form a palindrome) [45-15,45-88]
e.g. SUPE.RMAN = 1131.1311
e.g. RU.IN = 11.11
v. closed Scrabble board (fewest tiles after which no further play is possible) [16-22,16-229]
e.g. 6 to 9 tiles depending on the dictionary; 8 in French
vi. highest-scoring n-move Scrabble game [15-239]
e.g. one move: ZYXOMMA 130; two moves: XICAQUE + MUZJIKS 365
vii. lowest-scoring and most one-sided Scrabble games [14-184,15-15,15-19]
e.g. lowest game with TUTUS, WUD, DUO: 21 to 0 after trades
e.g. most one-sided game: margin above 1900 points
e. Poker [4-110,5-104,105,173]
f. Boggle [15-166,205,212]
g. Shelling Peas [23-166,169]
h. Chess [3-148,14-251]
i. Merology [23-12,92,93]
j. word tic-tac-toe and other isomorphic games [5-104,168,6-37,32-69,191,205,262,33-49,41-152,43-66,227,44-156]
e.g. take 3 words sharing a letter: HOT HEAR TIED FORM WASP BRIM TANK SHIP WOES (Moser)
e.g. ARTY BRED DOUX EXIT MAID MOLT RIOS SLAB SUEY: tic-tac-toe grid in disguise
k. Crash [2-179,39-187]
l. Hipe (find a word containing a given letter string) [42-141,43-73,43-102]
e.g. HIPE: arcHIPElago
e.g. WKW: aWKWard; HQ: eartHQuake
m. Wordle, best guessing strategy [TJ2-58,TJ5-11]
e.g. fixed opening sequence ADIEU, SPORT, LYNCH, BEFOG, MIKVA: 365 of 365 puzzles solved
n. crossword (incl. dual-solution, shaped and early forms)
[33-293,TJ7-33,TJ7-54,TJ8-58,TJ10-55,TJ11-52,TJ11-64,TJ12-34,TJ12-42,IN4-15]
e.g. Arthur Wynne's diamond-shaped "word-cross" (New York World, 21 Dec 1913)
e.g. Nabokov's butterfly-shaped "krossword" sent to his wife Vera (1926)
i. restricted-alphabet crossword (every entry from two letters, or vowels only, or consonants only) [8-80,8-154]
e.g. biliteral crossword in E and S: SEES, ESSES, ESS
e.g. all-consonant crossword (following an earlier all-vowel one)
ii. syllabic crossword (each square holds a syllable) [8-232,9-46,9-105]
e.g. PA. / RBI / .CQ (across PA, RBI, CQ; down PR, ABC, IQ; each square one syllable; Beaman)
o. cryptic crossword clue (definition plus wordplay) [42-84,44-161,TJ10-25,TJ11-63,IN2-49]
e.g. College hamster dissected (7) = AMHERST (anagram)
e.g. Kitty, when scorched, hid in the shack (7) = SCATHED (S CAT HED)
e.g. Oriental chairs contain mineral (4) = TALC (hidden word)
i. printer's devilry (answer word removed from a sentence, the remaining letters respaced into a new sentence),
incl. charade crosswords of such clues [1-94,3-177,16-169,17-117,18-159]
e.g. When you squash, a busy spot remains + GAMES => When you squash a bug a messy spot remains
ii. letter indicator (word or phrase that cryptically clues a single letter by position or meaning) [26-57]
e.g. centre stage / middle class = A; end of the world, back of the mind = D; bleeding heart = E
p. cryptogram (incl. dual cryptogram, each text enciphering the other) [34-226,41-91]
e.g. dual cryptogram, cipher (ai)(eo)(ds)(nr)(hw)(mt)(fl)(bg)(cp)(ykj): DEER <=> SOON (Hirst)
e.g. each of two texts enciphers the other: "I feed. I'm seen at Wem..." (Bitter Gammon, Hirst)
i. readable polyphonic cipher (several letters share one symbol, yet the text can still be read)
[8-55,8-153,11-117,20-173]
e.g. 1=E 2=TXZ 3=ACQ 4=ILB 5=OGJ 6=NPKV 7=RYW 8=SFM 9=HDU 0=space (Eckler)
e.g. telephone dial: PYGMIES and SWINGER both = 7946437
q. sliding-letter puzzle [44-310,45-4,IN5-66]
e.g. Roalex Ro-Let; SCOR; Fairylite Word Quiz; Scrabble Pocket Puzzle (plastic sliding-letter puzzles)
r. alphabet sports (sports games simulated by scoring the letters of randomly chosen words) [3-183]
e.g. hockey: teams of letters (OMK vs NLJ), goals decided by team letters in random newspaper words
s. anaquote (quotation cut into trigrams and alphabetized for the solver to reassemble) [14-107]
e.g. A RI DON FOR H'RE ISP LON NCH THE S = The French for London is Paris
t. double-crostic (clue answers whose letters, transferred by number, spell a quotation) [1-217]
e.g. 13 clue answers totalling 81 letters, transferred by number, spell a Bible verse
u. kriss kross (fit a given word list into a blank interlocking diagram) [1-36]
e.g. a category word list (trees, birds, cities) fitted into a blank interlocking diagram, all used
v. license-plate game (make a word containing given letters in order) [2-107,19-172,21-151]
e.g. URE: chURchEs; BLJ: BLueJay
w. sinko (players alternately complete rows or columns of a 5x5 grid with words; last legal move wins) [3-102]
e.g. first move fills five letters on a line of the 5x5 grid; game tree beyond computer solution
x. word search (words hidden in a letter grid in straight lines, any direction) [2-116,2-131,2-132,15-145]
e.g. Find the Phyla: all 21 animal phyla hidden in a 15x15 letter square, e.g. PORIFERA from H-3
i. fragment word search (search-a-word grid whose cells hold letter groups, words read across two or three cells)
[29-25]
e.g. very+deli = delivery; use+ten+hypo = hypotenuse
y. competitive word squares (players call letters in turn and each fills a hidden 5x5 grid, scoring the words made) [24-34]
e.g. 25 letters called in turn, each player fills a hidden 5x5 grid; one word per line scored, max 60
z. non-transitive word game (word sets that beat one another in a cycle, stone-paper-scissors style) [28-160]
e.g. paper wraps stone, stone blunts scissors, scissors cuts paper (word grid game; second player wins)
compound parts-of-speech [11-252,12-53]last in reverse alphabetical order, for each lettercomplete permutations
a. 3,4,5 - letters [20-195]
b. tetragram [17-125,147,176,18-23,40,155,21,28]
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