Time to revive the search for common 5-letter words (OED) whose letters - either all or some - cannot be rearranged into other words of at least two letters. The only examples I have found are CIVIC and QUEUE. Are there any others? I'm sure there mustbe, but they are elusive.
"Dunc M" wrote in message news:7af71892-0069-4720-8f1b-895f16b20967n@googlegroups.com...
Time to revive the search for common 5-letter words (OED) whose letters - either all or some - cannot be rearranged into other
words of at least two letters. The only examples I have found are CIVIC and QUEUE. Are there any others? I'm sure there must be,
but they are elusive.
"Dunc M" wrote in message
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Time to revive the search for common 5-letter words (OED) whose letters -
either all or some - cannot be rearranged into other words of at least two >> letters. The only examples I have found are CIVIC and QUEUE. Are there any >> others? I'm sure there must be, but they are elusive.
cynic
Time to revive the search for common 5-letter words (OED) whose letters - either all or some - cannot be rearranged into other words of at least two letters. The only examples I have found are CIVIC and QUEUE. Are there any others? I'm sure there mustbe, but they are elusive.
Time to revive the search for common 5-letter words (OED) whose letters - either all or some - cannot be rearranged into other words of at least two letters. The only examples I have found are CIVIC and QUEUE. Are there any others? I'm sure there mustbe, but they are elusive.
Time to revive the search for common 5-letter words (OED) whose letters
- either all or some - cannot be rearranged into other words of at least
two letters.
Dunc M.:
Time to revive the search for common 5-letter words (OED) whose lettersIf this is meant to be a mental puzzle, please ignore this response.
- either all or some - cannot be rearranged into other words of at least two letters.
I don't have access to a list of words in the OED, and I doubt that
one is available online, but I do have access to the "Webster's 2nd"
word list, and I wrote a suitable Perl program and ran it on that list.
It claimed three hits: CIRRI, CIVIC, and QUICK.
(I know some dictionaries admit QI as a word these days, which would
disallow QUICK, but I say bah humbug to that. If Q occurs in a word
followed by a letter other than U, it's not English.)
As to the suggestions posted by other people, some due to
misunderstanding the question, my program disallowed them because
the words at right, or perhaps I should say the forms at right,
were words in the list:
LYNCH LY
Mark Brader, Toronto | "To err is human, but to error requires a computer." m...@vex.net | -- Harry Lethall
My text in this article is in the public domain.
On Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 10:45:16 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:Some of the web2 word lists grabbed everything and removed hyphens
Dunc M.:
Time to revive the search for common 5-letter words (OED) whose lettersIf this is meant to be a mental puzzle, please ignore this response.
- either all or some - cannot be rearranged into other words of at least two letters.
I don't have access to a list of words in the OED, and I doubt that
one is available online, but I do have access to the "Webster's 2nd"
word list, and I wrote a suitable Perl program and ran it on that list.
It claimed three hits: CIRRI, CIVIC, and QUICK.
(I know some dictionaries admit QI as a word these days, which would disallow QUICK, but I say bah humbug to that. If Q occurs in a word followed by a letter other than U, it's not English.)
As to the suggestions posted by other people, some due to
misunderstanding the question, my program disallowed them because
the words at right, or perhaps I should say the forms at right,
were words in the list:
LYNCH LY
Mark Brader, Toronto | "To err is human, but to error requires a computer." m...@vex.net | -- Harry Lethall
My text in this article is in the public domain.I believe "LY" only appears as "-ly suffix" in the OED. "QI" is there.
Is "VIZIR" in your Webster's 2nd, and if so how did it fail?
L. Flynn
On Friday, October 29, 2021 at 11:22:53 AM UTC-4, leflynn wrote:That should be QUA and QUE have mixed presences across the three.
On Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 10:45:16 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
Dunc M.:
Time to revive the search for common 5-letter words (OED) whose lettersIf this is meant to be a mental puzzle, please ignore this response.
- either all or some - cannot be rearranged into other words of at least
two letters.
I don't have access to a list of words in the OED, and I doubt that
one is available online, but I do have access to the "Webster's 2nd" word list, and I wrote a suitable Perl program and ran it on that list.
It claimed three hits: CIRRI, CIVIC, and QUICK.
(I know some dictionaries admit QI as a word these days, which would disallow QUICK, but I say bah humbug to that. If Q occurs in a word followed by a letter other than U, it's not English.)
As to the suggestions posted by other people, some due to misunderstanding the question, my program disallowed them because
the words at right, or perhaps I should say the forms at right,
were words in the list:
LYNCH LY
Mark Brader, Toronto | "To err is human, but to error requires a computer."
m...@vex.net | -- Harry Lethall
My text in this article is in the public domain.I believe "LY" only appears as "-ly suffix" in the OED. "QI" is there.
Is "VIZIR" in your Webster's 2nd, and if so how did it fail?
L. FlynnSome of the web2 word lists grabbed everything and removed hyphens
I have three unabridged Websters in hardcopy.
My Webster's 1st and 2nd only have "-ly" as a suffix. The third gives it as an abbreviation for Langley without a capital or period.
CIRRI is in Webster's 1st, 2nd and 3rd as a plural of CIRRUS.
QI is not in any of them. QUA and QUE have mixed presences across the three.
Webster's 2nd has VIZIR as an alternate spelling for VIZIER.
I'll start off the six-letter quest with SYZYGY .
L. Flynn
I don't have access to a list of words in the OED, and I doubt that
one is available online, but I do have access to the "Webster's 2nd"
word list...
Is "VIZIR" in your Webster's 2nd, and if so how did it fail?
I'll start off the six-letter quest with SYZYGY .
Mark Brader:
I don't have access to a list of words in the OED, and I doubt that
one is available online, but I do have access to the "Webster's 2nd"
word list...
L.E. Flynn:
Is "VIZIR" in your Webster's 2nd, and if so how did it fail?
I don't have an actual Webster's, but that word isn't in the list.
L.E. Flynn:
I'll start off the six-letter quest with SYZYGY .
Tweaking the same program I ran before to do 6-letter words,
that one is the only hit.
I then tried 7-letter words and got no hits.
On Friday, October 29, 2021 at 11:22:53 AM UTC-4, leflynn wrote:
On Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 10:45:16 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
Dunc M.:
Time to revive the search for common 5-letter words (OED) whose letters - either all or some - cannot be rearranged into other words of at leastIf this is meant to be a mental puzzle, please ignore this response.
two letters.
I don't have access to a list of words in the OED, and I doubt that
one is available online, but I do have access to the "Webster's 2nd"
word list, and I wrote a suitable Perl program and ran it on that list.
It claimed three hits: CIRRI, CIVIC, and QUICK.
(I know some dictionaries admit QI as a word these days, which would disallow QUICK, but I say bah humbug to that. If Q occurs in a word followed by a letter other than U, it's not English.)
As to the suggestions posted by other people, some due to misunderstanding the question, my program disallowed them because
the words at right, or perhaps I should say the forms at right,
were words in the list:
LYNCH LY
Mark Brader, Toronto | "To err is human, but to error requires a computer."
m...@vex.net | -- Harry Lethall
My text in this article is in the public domain.I believe "LY" only appears as "-ly suffix" in the OED. "QI" is there.
Is "VIZIR" in your Webster's 2nd, and if so how did it fail?
L. FlynnSome of the web2 word lists grabbed everything and removed hyphens
I have three unabridged Websters in hardcopy.
My Webster's 1st and 2nd only have "-ly" as a suffix. The third gives it as an abbreviation for Langley without a capital or period.
CIRRI is in Webster's 1st, 2nd and 3rd as a plural of CIRRUS.
QI is not in any of them. QUA and QUA have mixed presences across the three.
Webster's 2nd has VIZIR as an alternate spelling for VIZIER.
I'll start off the six-letter quest with SYZYGY .
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