In light of the Math Challenges thread, this is a thread for word-based challenges. Not something like a vocabulary quiz or word problems, but stuff like "How many suffixes can be added to this word?"
Here's 2:
What is the longest word where the letter are in alphabetical order (Double letters allowed)?
My best so far is CHILLS
What 4 letters have the most anagrams which are also words? No double letters. Brand names and proper nouns count as words here, provided they are fairly common. My best is E, N, O, S:
NOSE (That thing between your eyes)
NOES (Plural of no)
NEOS (Plural of neo)
ENSO (A type of Ferrari car)
SONE (A measure of sound)
ONES (Plural of one)
What 4 letters have the most anagrams which are also words? No double letters. Brand names and proper nouns count as words here, provided they are fairly common. My best is E, N, O, S:
NOSE (That thing between your eyes)
NOES (Plural of no)
NEOS (Plural of neo)
ENSO (A type of Ferrari car)
SONE (A measure of sound)
ONES (Plural of one)
In Finnish,
sota=war
saot=septics (plural of a prefix)
taso=plane
sato=harvest
atso=azo (prefix)
otsa=forehead
osat=pieces
osta=purchase (imperative)
TOAS=Tampereen Opiskelija-Asuntolat (an organization)
tosa=a dog breed (that I didn't know of before)
What 4 letters have the most anagrams which are also words? No double letters. Brand names and proper nouns count as words here, provided they are fairly common. My best is E, N, O, S:
NOSE (That thing between your eyes)
NOES (Plural of no)
NEOS (Plural of neo)
ENSO (A type of Ferrari car)
SONE (A measure of sound)
ONES (Plural of one)
Since it's actually "Enzo", I think I can beat your five:
E,A,T,S
ATES: a kind of Spanish fruit pastry
EAST: commonly used direction
EATS: plural of "eat"
ETAS: plural of Greek letter
SATE: to satiate
SEAT: something you sit on
TEAS: plural of "tea"
Since it's actually "Enzo", I think I can beat your five:
E,A,T,S
ATES: a kind of Spanish fruit pastry
EAST: commonly used direction
EATS: plural of "eat"
ETAS: plural of Greek letter
SATE: to satiate
SEAT: something you sit on
TEAS: plural of "tea"
You missed one.
TESA: A system commonly used in hotels for electronic key cards. (Not that most people would know that.)
This site contains a lot of "word trivia" for people interested.
jimsfriend wrote:
Sir VG wrote:
TESA: A system commonly used in hotels for electronic key cards. (Not that most people would know that.)
Wikipedia redirects 'Tesa' to 'Semen analysis.' What kind of hotels do you stay in?
It's interesting (unusual?) that it redirects to the least relevant page that appears when you actually search for Tesa. Should this be taken to indicate anything about the people who run Wikipedia? ;)
Subbookkeeper comes to mind. Unless you consider it invened for the sake of people being able to say a word has 4 sets of double letters.
In which case, bookkeeper comes to mind :)
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Rridgway wrote:
Is it by any chance soonnee?
What is the longest paragraph that can be spoken without using a vowel?
Sorry, dictionary.com doesn't have soonnee, so since it's not a real word, I'd say it doesn't count.
Also, a paragraph without a vowel? Does that exclude the sometimes vowel y? If so, then there's a couple words that use "w" as a vowel, cwm being one of them (pronounced coom)
Oh, and bookkeeper was the one I had in mind (although subbookkeeper is an interesting one.
Hmm... wtf? By Ms. Lynx' hymns 'n my shy nymphs, why Y's 'n W's, sly gypsy spy? (Ok, that's the longest I can think of for now :P)
I didn't find "cwm" in my dictionary, but it seems to be a word in Welsh. Perhaps you were thinking about "cwt.", which is an unit of mass equal to 50.80234544 kilograms.
A paragraph is an element of written text and therefore contains letters. A vowel then means one of the letters A, E, I, O or U in the English alphabet and not any other letter. The letters don't correspond directly to individual phonemes anyway.
Since a paragraph consists of an unlimited number of sentences, there is no theoretical limit on how long such a paragraph could be as long as a sentence can be constructed.
Here are some words that do not contain vowels:
brr
brrr
by
cry
crypt
crwth
cyst
cwm
dry
fly
flyby
fry
glyn
glyph
gym
gyp
gypsy
gypsyfy
gypsyry
hm
hmm
hmmm
hy
hymn
jth
kth
lth
lymph
lynch
lynx
mth
my
myrrh
myth
'n
nth
nymph
nymphly
pht
pry
pst
pwn
pygmy
pyx
rhythm
rhythmy
scry
shh
sky
sly
shy
spry
spy
sty
sylph
symphysy
syzygy
thy
thymy
try
tryst
tsk
tsktsk
twyndyllyng
why
wry
wynd
wyrd
zzz
Some common abbreviations:
BBC (British Broadcasting Service)
BBS (Bulletin Board System)
BC (British Columbia or Before year 1)
BCL (Bachelor of Civil Law)
BD (Bachelor of Divinity)
b. (Born)
bd (Birthday)
BFBS (British and Foreign Bible Society)
BM (Black Mage)
Bp (Bishop)
Bt. (Baronet)
cL (Centilitre)
cm (Centimetre)
CNN (Cable News Network)
CS (Computer Science or Counter Strike)
CSCS (Civil Service Cooperative Stores)
CSM (Company Sergeant Major)
CTC (Cyclists' Touring Club)
cwt. (Centiweight.
DC (Direct Current or Dreamcast)
DCL (Doctor of Civil Law)
DCM (Distinguished Conduct Medal)
d. (Dead, day)
DL (Dcotor of Law)
DM (Deustche Mark)
dL (Decilitre)
dm (Decimetre)
Dr. (Doctor)
ff. (Fortissimo)
FGS (Fellow of the Geological Society)
FRCP (Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians)
FRCS (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons)
FRGS (Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society)
FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society)
FS (Fleet Surgeon)
FFS (For Fuck's Sake)
FZS (Fellow of the Zoological Society)
ft. (Foot)
g (Gram)
GB (Gameboy or Great Britain)
GC (Garbage Collection or Gamecube)
GF (Girlfriend)
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
gs. (Guineas)
HP (Health Points, Hit Points, House of Parliament or Hewlett Packard)
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
Jr. (Junior)
KKK (Ku Klux Klan)
kg (Kilogram)
km (Kilometre)
L (litre)
LTTP (Link To The Past)
MC (Motorcycle)
mg (Milligram)
mL (Millilitre)
MM (Mega Man or Majora's Mask)
mm (Millimetre)
MMX (Mega Man X or Multimedia Extension)
MP (Member of Parliament, Magic Points or Military Police)
Mt. (Mount)
μm (Micrometre)
nm (Nanometre)
NJ (New Jersey)
NY (New York)
NZ (New Zealand)
PC (Politically Correct or Personal Computer)
pd. (Paid)
PDC (Programme Delivery Control)
PDD (Pervasive Developmental Disorder)
PM (Post Meridiam or Private Message)
PN (Phone number)
PPP (Point to Point Protocol)
Mr. (Mister)
Mrs. (Mistress)
MS (Microsoft or Multiple Sclerosis)
Ms. (Miss)
N (North)
NW (Northwest)
Pt. (Pesetas)
QB (QuickBasic)
RM (Red Mage or Rockman)
RMF (Rockman & Forte)
RMS (Root Mean Square)
RSS (RDF Site Summary)
Ry (Railway)
S (South)
SM (Super Metroid, Sailor Moon, Self-mutilation or Sado-Masochism)
SMB (Super Mario Bros. or Server Message Block)
SMP (Simultaneous Multiprocessing)
sry (Sorry)
SS (Schützstaffel)
SW (Southwest)
W (West)
WDM (Windows Driver Model)
WMD (Weapon of Mass Destruction)
wth (What The Hell)
wtf (What The Fuck)
Xty (Christianity)
y. (Year)
yd. (Yard)
YKK (Yoshida Kogyo Kabushiki-gaisha)
