Add to ORKGArrange the letters of the alphabet in a specified order, and imbed these in a list of words, the object being to use as few letters as possible in the word-list. For example, if the letters are arranged in alphabetic order, and one is restricted to boldface entries in the Marriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary, with no single letter words or abbreviations allowed (such as DDT or TV), then the minimum-letter word-list appears to be
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The designers of the Linotype machine arranged its keyboard for optimum speed, assuming that the mos...
What words in the Third Edition of the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary have the most A\u27s th...
In previous issues, Word Ways has dealt with the topic of word crashes: the occurrence of individual...
Pick a group of n different letters, and in turn add A, B, ..., Z to these. How many of these enlarg...
Readers of Word Ways should be familiar with the concept of word patterns, exemplified by Jack Levin...
This article responds to the challenge posed by Susan Thorpe on page 212 of the August 2001 issue of...
It has been known for at least fifteen years that certain words can be translated into other words b...
23751 different sets of four letters can be formed from the 26 letter of the alphabet, if order is i...
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In past Word Ways articles, various authors have explored words which contain consecutive letters of...
When reporting discoveries in recreational linguistics, the careful logologist always specifies the ...
In the November 1979 Word Ways, the editor explored the subject of letter-shift words (words which c...
In a December 1981 letter, the editor of Word Ways proposed the following challenge:The September/Oc...
As a cryptic crossword constructor and solver, I see a lot of letter deletions: words that become ot...
Word networks - collections of words of a common length that can be joined by single-letter substitu...
The designers of the Linotype machine arranged its keyboard for optimum speed, assuming that the mos...
What words in the Third Edition of the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary have the most A\u27s th...
In previous issues, Word Ways has dealt with the topic of word crashes: the occurrence of individual...
Pick a group of n different letters, and in turn add A, B, ..., Z to these. How many of these enlarg...
Readers of Word Ways should be familiar with the concept of word patterns, exemplified by Jack Levin...
This article responds to the challenge posed by Susan Thorpe on page 212 of the August 2001 issue of...
It has been known for at least fifteen years that certain words can be translated into other words b...
23751 different sets of four letters can be formed from the 26 letter of the alphabet, if order is i...
How large must a word list be in order to have a reasonable chance of including words starting with ...
In past Word Ways articles, various authors have explored words which contain consecutive letters of...
When reporting discoveries in recreational linguistics, the careful logologist always specifies the ...
In the November 1979 Word Ways, the editor explored the subject of letter-shift words (words which c...
In a December 1981 letter, the editor of Word Ways proposed the following challenge:The September/Oc...
As a cryptic crossword constructor and solver, I see a lot of letter deletions: words that become ot...
Word networks - collections of words of a common length that can be joined by single-letter substitu...
The designers of the Linotype machine arranged its keyboard for optimum speed, assuming that the mos...
What words in the Third Edition of the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary have the most A\u27s th...