Add to ORKGEach word in the above title has a repeated letter. Remove those repeated letters and new words emerge: MINUS, WORDY, AXIS. Such words, which drop a repeated letter to form a new word, number in the thousands. When technical and proper nouns are ignored, they still number around a thousand. Such words amuse us by their transformations, and give rise to several non-trivial studies
This article responds to the challenge posed by Susan Thorpe on page 212 of the August 2001 issue of...
As a cryptic crossword constructor and solver, I see a lot of letter deletions: words that become ot...
An update to a popular Word Ways article originally published in 1973 in which examples are given of...
Many common words contain a doubled letter, for example LEER, GRAMMAR and DAZZLE. To find dictionary...
Words have ways which are so numerous (accourding to some mystics) that they are transinfinite (grea...
This article contains a list of words with interesting logological properties from Merriam-Webster\u...
In the February 1973 Word Ways, Darryl Francis searched for examples of words having two doubled let...
There are two types of what I call powerful words: whole words whose letter totals (assigning a=1, b...
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The November 1973 issue of Word Ways comments on the relative paucity of new word palindromes in the...
One of the many projects that has engaged the attention of serious-minded logologists has been the q...
Of perennial interest to Word Ways readers are very long English words - words of 27 or more letters...
In the February \u2777 Word Ways (77-8), Dmitri Borgmann proposed as the keystone of logology that a...
In a December 1981 letter, the editor of Word Ways proposed the following challenge:The September/Oc...
Some words, like DEIFIED, have patterns that immediately attract the eye; others, like SCINTILLESCEN...
This article responds to the challenge posed by Susan Thorpe on page 212 of the August 2001 issue of...
As a cryptic crossword constructor and solver, I see a lot of letter deletions: words that become ot...
An update to a popular Word Ways article originally published in 1973 in which examples are given of...
Many common words contain a doubled letter, for example LEER, GRAMMAR and DAZZLE. To find dictionary...
Words have ways which are so numerous (accourding to some mystics) that they are transinfinite (grea...
This article contains a list of words with interesting logological properties from Merriam-Webster\u...
In the February 1973 Word Ways, Darryl Francis searched for examples of words having two doubled let...
There are two types of what I call powerful words: whole words whose letter totals (assigning a=1, b...
The readers of Word Ways will be familiar with words whose first few letters are repeated, in the sa...
The November 1973 issue of Word Ways comments on the relative paucity of new word palindromes in the...
One of the many projects that has engaged the attention of serious-minded logologists has been the q...
Of perennial interest to Word Ways readers are very long English words - words of 27 or more letters...
In the February \u2777 Word Ways (77-8), Dmitri Borgmann proposed as the keystone of logology that a...
In a December 1981 letter, the editor of Word Ways proposed the following challenge:The September/Oc...
Some words, like DEIFIED, have patterns that immediately attract the eye; others, like SCINTILLESCEN...
This article responds to the challenge posed by Susan Thorpe on page 212 of the August 2001 issue of...
As a cryptic crossword constructor and solver, I see a lot of letter deletions: words that become ot...
An update to a popular Word Ways article originally published in 1973 in which examples are given of...