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curious inflection of English words
The trick here lies in
The agent-noun form of
The past-tense form of
The present-participle form of
The past-participle form of
21
votes
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Three 8-letter words with at least 23 different letters
Searching a list of over 8000 eight-letter words with no repeated letters yields the following six triples, each with 23 distinct letters:
19
votes
Accepted
9
votes
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MOVING PICTURES
Each clue
And then
And then
In the title,
So:
(8 5 -> 9 6) also as electrophenic in introduced known kuhn's of operation phrase provide respiration revolutions scientific structure support the ...
8
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Three 8-letter words with at least 23 different letters
Looking for three 8-letter word groups with 24 distinct letters.
I was unable to find a solution in a dictionary, but did find several by using other word lists. Most are 'suspect' but this one uses ...
6
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Can you employ all 26 letters using three 11-letter, three 10-letter, or three 9-letter words?
From @computer_goblin's list of 46659 nine-letter words, the maximum number of letters covered by three words is
If you instead consider only the subset of 43098 words that do not contain a capital ...
4
votes
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Blunt Talk, Shrubby Barquentine
I stand in the East, facing West in all directions
A day’s sail, just across the line
This must refer to
Possibilities at this stage are
Unlucky year, a ship ran aground...
So we're probably ...
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Can you employ all 26 letters using three 11-letter, three 10-letter, or three 9-letter words?
I compiled a txt file containing all 9 letter words recognized by Merriam Webster. However, proper nouns are included as well (Designated by a capital letter). I also quickly wrote a code but due to ...
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