We take for granted the symmetrical letter patterns in palindromes - such as LEVEL and KAY AK. These involve all the letters in the world. But what about symmetrical letter patterns which occur in non-palindromic words, such as that of the letter N in ENCHANTMENT? In Making the Alphabet Dance, Ross Eckler gave the name \u27cadence\u27 to a set of identical letters spaced at equal intervals in a word - as in SYNGENESIOTRANSPLANTATION. Her, I add two constraints: the letters must be symmetrical within the word, as well as in relation to each other
An alphabetic insertion occurs when each letter of the alphabet is inserted in turn in the same posi...
The accident and popular Art of the Palindrome blazes out from the epicenter of the universe of lett...
Excluding patterns with three or more consecutive identical letters, there are 41 different word pat...
Palindromes are words or phrases endowed with a quirkish trait. They read the same frontward or bac...
Many years ago, Leigh Mercer constructed several dictionaries to aid the aspiring palindromist. In t...
The letter pattern of some word genres is only a whisker away from the letter pattern of other word ...
Some words, like DEIFIED, have patterns that immediately attract the eye; others, like SCINTILLESCEN...
Most Word Ways readers are attuned to letter-patterns. One of the most commonly-encountered ones is...
In February 1995, A Word Graph Bestiary presented all possible graph shapes for words having five ...
In Language on Vacation, Dmitri Borgmann states that non-pattern words (words with no letter repeate...
Assigning A=1, B=2, etc., the letters forming the first and second halves of a word within an even n...
Logophiles have extensively studied interesting properties of isolated words: palindromes, anagrams ...
A word square (n-square) consists of a n rows, each containing a different n-letter word, so that th...
There are about 7800 different trigrams which occur in words listed in boldface in Webster\u27s Seco...
A recent survey of over 1000 palindromes has shown that 71 per cent pivot on a single letter, as in ...
An alphabetic insertion occurs when each letter of the alphabet is inserted in turn in the same posi...
The accident and popular Art of the Palindrome blazes out from the epicenter of the universe of lett...
Excluding patterns with three or more consecutive identical letters, there are 41 different word pat...
Palindromes are words or phrases endowed with a quirkish trait. They read the same frontward or bac...
Many years ago, Leigh Mercer constructed several dictionaries to aid the aspiring palindromist. In t...
The letter pattern of some word genres is only a whisker away from the letter pattern of other word ...
Some words, like DEIFIED, have patterns that immediately attract the eye; others, like SCINTILLESCEN...
Most Word Ways readers are attuned to letter-patterns. One of the most commonly-encountered ones is...
In February 1995, A Word Graph Bestiary presented all possible graph shapes for words having five ...
In Language on Vacation, Dmitri Borgmann states that non-pattern words (words with no letter repeate...
Assigning A=1, B=2, etc., the letters forming the first and second halves of a word within an even n...
Logophiles have extensively studied interesting properties of isolated words: palindromes, anagrams ...
A word square (n-square) consists of a n rows, each containing a different n-letter word, so that th...
There are about 7800 different trigrams which occur in words listed in boldface in Webster\u27s Seco...
A recent survey of over 1000 palindromes has shown that 71 per cent pivot on a single letter, as in ...
An alphabetic insertion occurs when each letter of the alphabet is inserted in turn in the same posi...
The accident and popular Art of the Palindrome blazes out from the epicenter of the universe of lett...
Excluding patterns with three or more consecutive identical letters, there are 41 different word pat...