Richard Lederer in the Nov 1997 Word Ways mentioned words which become other words when their terminal letters are interchanged (the first and the last letter are swapped), as SWINDLES to SWINDLED. He gave seven examples of four-letter pairs, five examples of the rarer five-letter pairs, and three examples of six-letter prize pairs, given them the title simultaneous loopers since the two letters are looped to the other end of the word at the same time
Transposing word by dividing them into three parts in such a way that leaves the middle letter(s) un...
Many Word Ways articles have dealt with words differing from each other in only a single letter (suc...
Recent developments in logology compel me to come out of retirement, setting the record straight. Ar...
A number of words become new words when, contemporaneously, the front letter is looped to the back a...
In Kickshaws of Feb 2002, Dave Morice asked for words beginning and ending in the same letter, which...
Long transposal pairs, especially those in which the letters of one word must be thoroughly rearrang...
TRAILS-TRIALS and MANTEL-MENTAL ARE EXAMPLES OF 6-LETTER VOWEL SWAP TRANSPOSALS (VSTs), the 2 vowels...
We intrepid logologists love to switch around letters within words -- adjacent letters (UNITED UNTIE...
Two words are called transposals if they use the same letters in a different order. The letters may...
The readers of Word Ways will be familiar with words whose first few letters are repeated, in the sa...
In the February 1991 Word Ways, Darryl Francis exhibited a type-collection of mtalleges (letter-swap...
By the time we reach six-letter words, conditions for superior ladders are much improved: nearly one...
During its two decades of existence, Word Ways has presented transposals in one form or another in a...
According to a recent issue of WORD WAYS, one of the most difficult feats in English verbal acrostic...
In the May 1972 Kickshaws, Dave Silverman reported on efforts by mary Hazard, Gary Crum and Murray P...
Transposing word by dividing them into three parts in such a way that leaves the middle letter(s) un...
Many Word Ways articles have dealt with words differing from each other in only a single letter (suc...
Recent developments in logology compel me to come out of retirement, setting the record straight. Ar...
A number of words become new words when, contemporaneously, the front letter is looped to the back a...
In Kickshaws of Feb 2002, Dave Morice asked for words beginning and ending in the same letter, which...
Long transposal pairs, especially those in which the letters of one word must be thoroughly rearrang...
TRAILS-TRIALS and MANTEL-MENTAL ARE EXAMPLES OF 6-LETTER VOWEL SWAP TRANSPOSALS (VSTs), the 2 vowels...
We intrepid logologists love to switch around letters within words -- adjacent letters (UNITED UNTIE...
Two words are called transposals if they use the same letters in a different order. The letters may...
The readers of Word Ways will be familiar with words whose first few letters are repeated, in the sa...
In the February 1991 Word Ways, Darryl Francis exhibited a type-collection of mtalleges (letter-swap...
By the time we reach six-letter words, conditions for superior ladders are much improved: nearly one...
During its two decades of existence, Word Ways has presented transposals in one form or another in a...
According to a recent issue of WORD WAYS, one of the most difficult feats in English verbal acrostic...
In the May 1972 Kickshaws, Dave Silverman reported on efforts by mary Hazard, Gary Crum and Murray P...
Transposing word by dividing them into three parts in such a way that leaves the middle letter(s) un...
Many Word Ways articles have dealt with words differing from each other in only a single letter (suc...
Recent developments in logology compel me to come out of retirement, setting the record straight. Ar...