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Impossible words

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Hi all, it's obviously been a slow morning, so I've been thinking about whether there are many words that are impossible to play in all forms of Apterous (Omelette excepted of course). Given the existence of Hyper Unlimited, what we need is a list of words with ten unique letters. Off the top of my head I can think of BIOGRAPHIES and FACETIOUSLY, but these are both eleven letters long.

While writing, I decided to look this up, and yes, there's a wikipedia page on isograms. It's not a comprehensive list, but it does have words up to 17 letters long. If you're bored, see if you can think of some long ones.

What might be more interesting now that my initial idea is moot are words exclusive to particular formats.

I'll go away now. :roll:
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