Adding letters to form words
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Adding letters to form words
I have noticed that often you can get longer words in countdown by learning that, for example, admits+u=stadium.
The challenge is, by constantly adding letters from 1 letter words until when you can't add any more, making a new word each time. You can only add 1 letter on at a time. You can put the new letter anywhere in the word, and you can scramble the letters in the words as much as you want, but each time you add a letter on, you have to make a new word. Any letter in the alphabet counts as a 1 letter word. Plurals etc are allowed.
For example,
p
pa
nap
naps
panes
planes
planets
planters
etc
So that was an 8 letter word which was created by this process
What is the longest word you can come up with using the same method?
Good luck,
Paul
The challenge is, by constantly adding letters from 1 letter words until when you can't add any more, making a new word each time. You can only add 1 letter on at a time. You can put the new letter anywhere in the word, and you can scramble the letters in the words as much as you want, but each time you add a letter on, you have to make a new word. Any letter in the alphabet counts as a 1 letter word. Plurals etc are allowed.
For example,
p
pa
nap
naps
panes
planes
planets
planters
etc
So that was an 8 letter word which was created by this process
What is the longest word you can come up with using the same method?
Good luck,
Paul
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Re: Adding letters to form words
Paul Erdunast wrote:plankters (A type of plankton)
So that was an 8 letter word which was created by this process
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Re: Adding letters to form words
I love the edit feature on here
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Re: Adding letters to form words
Maybe you should edit the bit where you used an invalid word.Paul Erdunast wrote:I love the edit feature on here
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Re: Adding letters to form words
T
TO
TON
TONE
TONER
TONERS
SANTERO
SENORITA
ORDINATES
TO
TON
TONE
TONER
TONERS
SANTERO
SENORITA
ORDINATES
16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
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Re: Adding letters to form words
adroitness?Kai Laddiman wrote:T
TO
TON
TONE
TONER
TONERS
SANTERO
SENORITA
ORDINATES
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Re: Adding letters to form words
I'm sure at least 15 is possiblePaul Erdunast wrote:What is the longest word you can come up with using the same method?
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Re: Adding letters to form words
Why stop there?Paul Erdunast wrote:p
pa
nap
naps
panes
planes
planets
planters
etc
So that was an 8 letter word which was created by this process
p
pa
nap
naps
panes
planes
planets
planters
strapline
plastering
splattering
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Re: Adding letters to form words
Good one, Phil
earsplitting?
earsplitting?
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Re: Adding letters to form words
Not a word. SPLATTERING is as far as you can go down that particular path.Paul Erdunast wrote:earsplitting?
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Re: Adding letters to form words
So far for 'X', I can get down to 7 letters and for 'Z' I can get down to 8 letters:
X
XI
SIX
AXIS
TAXIS
TAXIES
FIXATES
Z
ZO
ZOO
OOZE
OOZES
OZONES
SNOOZER
SNOOZERS
X
XI
SIX
AXIS
TAXIS
TAXIES
FIXATES
Z
ZO
ZOO
OOZE
OOZES
OZONES
SNOOZER
SNOOZERS
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Re: Adding letters to form words
You aren't trying:Joseph Bolas wrote:So far for 'X', I can get down to 7 letters
X
OX
COX
COAX
COXAE
COAXER
EXACTOR
EXACTORS
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Re: Adding letters to form words
Nice one
Anyone know whether one can get a word longer than 12 letters?
Anyone know whether one can get a word longer than 12 letters?
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Re: Adding letters to form words
Here's a 13:Paul Erdunast wrote:Anyone know whether one can get a word longer than 12 letters?
A
AT
EAT
SEAT
TEASE
ESTATE
RESTATE
RESTATES
TREATISES
REINSTATES
INTERSTATES
TRANSVESTITE
TRANSVESTITES
(I was about to ask why Lexplorer disallows TRANSVESTITES, but conveniently Charlie has just answered the question here.)
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Re: Adding letters to form words
People say it all the time. But nobody can hear them.Phil Reynolds wrote:Not a word.Paul Erdunast wrote:earsplitting?
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I was going from X --> XI (although there is probably longer that way too)Phil Reynolds wrote:You aren't trying:Joseph Bolas wrote:So far for 'X', I can get down to 7 letters
X
OX
COX
COAX
COXAE
COAXER
EXACTOR
EXACTORS
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I'm pretty sure there are no 13s in the lexicon whatsoever.Phil Reynolds wrote:Here's a 13:Paul Erdunast wrote:Anyone know whether one can get a word longer than 12 letters?
A
AT
EAT
SEAT
TEASE
ESTATE
RESTATE
RESTATES
TREATISES
REINSTATES
INTERSTATES
TRANSVESTITE
TRANSVESTITES
(I was about to ask why Lexplorer disallows TRANSVESTITES, but conveniently Charlie has just answered the question here.)
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Although thinking about it now, what with Unlimited and all, it's a possibility.Jon O'Neill wrote:I'm pretty sure there are no 13s in the lexicon whatsoever.Phil Reynolds wrote:Here's a 13:Paul Erdunast wrote:Anyone know whether one can get a word longer than 12 letters?
A
AT
EAT
SEAT
TEASE
ESTATE
RESTATE
RESTATES
TREATISES
REINSTATES
INTERSTATES
TRANSVESTITE
TRANSVESTITES
(I was about to ask why Lexplorer disallows TRANSVESTITES, but conveniently Charlie has just answered the question here.)
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Re: Adding letters to form words
What's that got to do with it? You didn't say you could get to 7 starting X, XI, ... You said you'd managed 7 starting from X.Joseph Bolas wrote:I was going from X --> XIPhil Reynolds wrote:You aren't trying:Joseph Bolas wrote:So far for 'X', I can get down to 7 letters
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Re: Adding letters to form words
X
EX
AXE
AXED
TAXED
TAXIED
OXIDATE
OXIDATED
DEOXIDATE
DEOXIDATED
EX
AXE
AXED
TAXED
TAXIED
OXIDATE
OXIDATED
DEOXIDATE
DEOXIDATED
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Re: Adding letters to form words
Clare Sudbery wrote:X
EX
AXE
AXED
TAXED
RAXIED
OXIDATE
OXIDATED
DEOXIDATE
DEOXIDATED
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Re: Adding letters to form words
Here you go, for 15...
15 EXPLORATIONISTS
14 EXTRAPOSITIONS
13 POSTERISATION
12 ANISOTROPIES
11 REPOSITIONS
10 POROSITIES
09 PORTOISES
08 PROSIEST
07 ESPRITS
06 PRIEST
05 PISTE
04 PIES
03 SIP
02 PI
01 I
I used Lexpert though. Not that it wasn't still a challenge, but a different kind of challenge (and I forgot what I was doing halfway through - was trying to start from X and get to 15, but started with 15-letter words, worked backwards... and forgot about the X along the way (doh)).
15 EXPLORATIONISTS
14 EXTRAPOSITIONS
13 POSTERISATION
12 ANISOTROPIES
11 REPOSITIONS
10 POROSITIES
09 PORTOISES
08 PROSIEST
07 ESPRITS
06 PRIEST
05 PISTE
04 PIES
03 SIP
02 PI
01 I
I used Lexpert though. Not that it wasn't still a challenge, but a different kind of challenge (and I forgot what I was doing halfway through - was trying to start from X and get to 15, but started with 15-letter words, worked backwards... and forgot about the X along the way (doh)).
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Re: Adding letters to form words
Oops, typo. Should be TAXIED. Edited now.Jon Corby wrote: RAXIED
Re: Adding letters to form words
No shitClare Sudbery wrote:Oops, typo. Should be TAXIED.Jon Corby wrote: RAXIED
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Re: Adding letters to form words
Jon Corby wrote:No shitClare Sudbery wrote:Oops, typo. Should be TAXIED.Jon Corby wrote: RAXIED
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Re: Adding letters to form words
That is SERIOUSLY impressive, well done
I was stuck on the 12 mark myself, I'm glad someone could do better!
I can't imagine one can do much better than 15, but if you can, please post it
I was stuck on the 12 mark myself, I'm glad someone could do better!
I can't imagine one can do much better than 15, but if you can, please post it
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Re: Adding letters to form words
btw, I've checked the oed, and earsplitting is spelled with a hyphen, which is the reason why it is disallowed
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Re: Adding letters to form words
Hmmm, I should come clean and admit that a lot of those words aren't in OED2. They are in SOWPODS. The bigger the dictionary the greater the fun, but my effort probably fails for a game played round these 'ere parts.Paul Erdunast wrote:That is SERIOUSLY impressive, well done
I was stuck on the 12 mark myself, I'm glad someone could do better!
I can't imagine one can do much better than 15, but if you can, please post it
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Re: Adding letters to form words
I dunno, I looked all the ones I didn't know up in the full OED website (I have a username + password to the full online database) and they all seemed to be in there
So in my opinion, it still stays.
So in my opinion, it still stays.
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Re: Adding letters to form words
Ah- posterisation seems to be spelled with a z in the oed
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And I can't seem to find explorationist either- so no plural it seemsPaul Erdunast wrote:Ah- posterisation seems to be spelled with a z in the oed
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Re: Adding letters to form words
J Attempt:
J
JA
JAR
AJAR
RAJAS
RAJAHS
JARRAHS
Can probably be bettered.
J
JA
JAR
AJAR
RAJAS
RAJAHS
JARRAHS
Can probably be bettered.
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Re: Adding letters to form words
I could only equal you and in a more prosaic fashion.Joseph Krol wrote:J Attempt:
J
JA
JAR
AJAR
RAJAS
RAJAHS
JARRAHS
Can probably be bettered.
J
JO
JOT
JOLT
JOLTS
JOSTLE
JOSTLED