There are two types of what I call powerful words: whole words whose letter totals (assigning a=1, b=2, ... z=26) are a square, a cube etc. words which break into a series of letter groups each of whose total is a square, cube etc. Let us begin by taking a look at the first of these types of powerful word. Unreferenced words are in the OED, Second Edition. Sources of non-OED words are given at the end
In a May 1993 Word Ways article, Donald Knuth says that the reason his computer found so many 5x5x5 ...
In a December 1981 letter, the editor of Word Ways proposed the following challenge:The September/Oc...
A word square (n-square) consists of a n rows, each containing a different n-letter word, so that th...
What is the largest number of different letters that can be used in a word square? For word squares ...
Each word in the above title has a repeated letter. Remove those repeated letters and new words eme...
Considering the enormous difficulties encountered in the construction of large word squares, it is n...
When I read Dmitri Borgmann\u27s article on 100-letter tautonymic word squares in the November 1973 ...
In How Many Words Support a Square? in the May 1992 Word Ways, I definied the support of a word ...
Directions for creation of a word square, a word cube, a word hypercube, and a word hyperhypercube
In a letter dated 16 Mar 2005, Anil proposed constructing word cubes consisting of six word squares,...
Word Ways has presented a great many challenges, explicit and implicit, since 1968; many were never ...
In Cubism Revisited in the August 1978 Word Ways I presented a non-symmetrical word cube of the si...
The history of word square construction in the United States has largely been one of the strenuous a...
In Search of the Ten-Square in the November 1990 Word Ways featured in a manually-constructed squar...
Select words of n letters at random from a dictionary, one at a time. How many different words must...
In a May 1993 Word Ways article, Donald Knuth says that the reason his computer found so many 5x5x5 ...
In a December 1981 letter, the editor of Word Ways proposed the following challenge:The September/Oc...
A word square (n-square) consists of a n rows, each containing a different n-letter word, so that th...
What is the largest number of different letters that can be used in a word square? For word squares ...
Each word in the above title has a repeated letter. Remove those repeated letters and new words eme...
Considering the enormous difficulties encountered in the construction of large word squares, it is n...
When I read Dmitri Borgmann\u27s article on 100-letter tautonymic word squares in the November 1973 ...
In How Many Words Support a Square? in the May 1992 Word Ways, I definied the support of a word ...
Directions for creation of a word square, a word cube, a word hypercube, and a word hyperhypercube
In a letter dated 16 Mar 2005, Anil proposed constructing word cubes consisting of six word squares,...
Word Ways has presented a great many challenges, explicit and implicit, since 1968; many were never ...
In Cubism Revisited in the August 1978 Word Ways I presented a non-symmetrical word cube of the si...
The history of word square construction in the United States has largely been one of the strenuous a...
In Search of the Ten-Square in the November 1990 Word Ways featured in a manually-constructed squar...
Select words of n letters at random from a dictionary, one at a time. How many different words must...
In a May 1993 Word Ways article, Donald Knuth says that the reason his computer found so many 5x5x5 ...
In a December 1981 letter, the editor of Word Ways proposed the following challenge:The September/Oc...
A word square (n-square) consists of a n rows, each containing a different n-letter word, so that th...