Add to ORKGTake the word TEA and transfer the last letter to the start, obtaining ATE. Repeat this operation on ATE to get its present tense, EAT. A final transfer returns us to the original word, TEA, completing the cycle. It is not difficult to find other examples using rarer three-letter words; in the July 1975 Games & Puzzles, Darryl Francis exhibited five more based on the letters AIT, ASP, EON, ETH and ICH (all fifteen words can be found in Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary)
The transposal of PROSE into SPORE is exactly the same as the transposal of OLIVE into VOILE: both c...
Have you ever noticed that many four-letter words can be changed to five-letter words by inserting a...
Richard Lederer in the Nov 1997 Word Ways mentioned words which become other words when their termin...
Transposing word by dividing them into three parts in such a way that leaves the middle letter(s) un...
Transpositions where a letter at one end of a word can be moved to the other end to make a new word ...
Two words are called transposals if they use the same letters in a different order. The letters may...
A set of three different letters can be transposed in six ways. There are a number of these groups ...
It has been known for at least fifteen years that certain words can be translated into other words b...
The transposability of a word can be defined as the ease with which its letters can be rearranged to...
Long transposal pairs, especially those in which the letters of one word must be thoroughly rearrang...
In the May 1972 Kickshaws, Dave Silverman reported on efforts by mary Hazard, Gary Crum and Murray P...
The readers of Word Ways will be familiar with words whose first few letters are repeated, in the sa...
Many Word Ways articles have dealt with words differing from each other in only a single letter (suc...
The February 1973 issue of Word Ways contained a provocative article by Dmitri Borgmann, challenging...
In Transposing Rates (WW87195), Jeff Grant listed the 24 transpositions of the four letters AEST. He...
The transposal of PROSE into SPORE is exactly the same as the transposal of OLIVE into VOILE: both c...
Have you ever noticed that many four-letter words can be changed to five-letter words by inserting a...
Richard Lederer in the Nov 1997 Word Ways mentioned words which become other words when their termin...
Transposing word by dividing them into three parts in such a way that leaves the middle letter(s) un...
Transpositions where a letter at one end of a word can be moved to the other end to make a new word ...
Two words are called transposals if they use the same letters in a different order. The letters may...
A set of three different letters can be transposed in six ways. There are a number of these groups ...
It has been known for at least fifteen years that certain words can be translated into other words b...
The transposability of a word can be defined as the ease with which its letters can be rearranged to...
Long transposal pairs, especially those in which the letters of one word must be thoroughly rearrang...
In the May 1972 Kickshaws, Dave Silverman reported on efforts by mary Hazard, Gary Crum and Murray P...
The readers of Word Ways will be familiar with words whose first few letters are repeated, in the sa...
Many Word Ways articles have dealt with words differing from each other in only a single letter (suc...
The February 1973 issue of Word Ways contained a provocative article by Dmitri Borgmann, challenging...
In Transposing Rates (WW87195), Jeff Grant listed the 24 transpositions of the four letters AEST. He...
The transposal of PROSE into SPORE is exactly the same as the transposal of OLIVE into VOILE: both c...
Have you ever noticed that many four-letter words can be changed to five-letter words by inserting a...
Richard Lederer in the Nov 1997 Word Ways mentioned words which become other words when their termin...