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Longest word with no anagrams
My challenge is, to find the longest word that has no anagrams (excluding 1/2 letter anagrams)
For example:
Duck, 3 letters, has 1 anagram using any letters.
CUD
My highest is 6 letters.. any beaters?
For example:
Duck, 3 letters, has 1 anagram using any letters.
CUD
My highest is 6 letters.. any beaters?
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Re: Longest word with no anagrams
Sorry, don't get this at all. DUCK has 4 letters, not 3. And CUD isn't an anagram of DUCK.Adam Dexter wrote:Duck, 3 letters, has 1 anagram using any letters.
CUD
Do you mean find the longest word from which no other words of three letters or more can be made?
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Yes I do. I knew my phrasing was confusing, which was why I included the example. However, this hasn't seemed to work. Although you do now understand, so maybe it did!Phil Reynolds wrote:Sorry, don't get this at all. DUCK has 4 letters, not 3. And CUD isn't an anagram of DUCK.Adam Dexter wrote:Duck, 3 letters, has 1 anagram using any letters.
CUD
Do you mean find the longest word from which no other words of three letters or more can be made?
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Re: Longest word with no anagrams
GRRRL for 5, maybe? Or is GRR in there?
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Well you can pluralise that! Erm GRR is not in the OED (well not mine anyway, but mine is a concise one). Hmmm.... I was thinking of a non-pluralised word anywayDavid Roe wrote:GRRRL for 5, maybe? Or is GRR in there?
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Re: Longest word with no anagrams
Oooh, RELATIONS doesn't have any I don't think.
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Re: Longest word with no anagrams
If you mean absolutely no sub-words, I think the Scrabble solution to this is SYZYGY. In French it's XYLOL. This one is a bit better, although it's one letter shorter you can play without a blank. So on the first move, if you have WXYLOLQ the best play is XYLOL for 66 - not only that, it's the only word possible, they only other plays are to play it in the four other possible positions (or nine if you count horizontal and vertical separately).
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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Congrats. SYZYGY was my word. That took approx 54 mins from OP. Too easy methinks.Martin Gardner wrote:If you mean absolutely no sub-words, I think the Scrabble solution to this is SYZYGY. In French it's XYLOL. This one is a bit better, although it's one letter shorter you can play without a blank. So on the first move, if you have WXYLOLQ the best play is XYLOL for 66 - not only that, it's the only word possible, they only other plays are to play it in the four other possible positions (or nine if you count horizontal and vertical separately).
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I hope you are joking.. ORIENTALS for a perfect solve.Kai Laddiman wrote:Oooh, RELATIONS doesn't have any I don't think.
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Re: Longest word with no anagrams
Icy.Phil Reynolds wrote:CYCLIC.
The best I could come up with was QUICK. (Unless ICK is a word). I thought of MUUMUU as well, but umm, I don't think that's allowed. I think I'm right in saying that, as well as being longer, Syzygy is also better than Quick in that it doesn't contain any 2-letter sub-word anagrams either. Quick is the longest countdown-valid word though (so far, anyway).
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Well done Zussman - I was wondering which of you'd spot that one first.Neil Zussman wrote:Icy.Phil Reynolds wrote:CYCLIC.
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Have you cloned me without me knowing?Phil Reynolds wrote:Well done Zussman - I was wondering which of you'd spot that one first.Neil Zussman wrote:Icy.Phil Reynolds wrote:CYCLIC.
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Re: Longest word with no anagrams
GRRRL is in (no GRR), but there's also GRRL.David Roe wrote:GRRRL for 5, maybe? Or is GRR in there?
QUICK - ICK is Countdown-valid.Neil Zussman wrote:Icy.Phil Reynolds wrote:CYCLIC.
The best I could come up with was QUICK. (Unless ICK is a word). I thought of MUUMUU as well, but umm, I don't think that's allowed. I think I'm right in saying that, as well as being longer, Syzygy is also better than Quick in that it doesn't contain any 2-letter sub-word anagrams either. Quick is the longest countdown-valid word though (so far, anyway).
SYZYGY is valid in Countdown (though currently the letters distribution renders it impossible to come out).
MUUMUU has sub-words MUM, UHM.
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Re: Longest word with no anagrams
Yeah if you exclude two letter words you can get longer than six, IMO. I'm too tired to be bothered now.
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?
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You got out-humoured by a 12 year oldAdam Dexter wrote:I hope you are joking.. ORIENTALS for a perfect solve.Kai Laddiman wrote:Oooh, RELATIONS doesn't have any I don't think.
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Oh well... Just realised the double negative in his post... therefore meaning that he does think it does... so why post that on this thread? Oh well... I'll just go and hang myself.Ben Hunter wrote:You got out-humoured by a 12 year oldAdam Dexter wrote:I hope you are joking.. ORIENTALS for a perfect solve.Kai Laddiman wrote:Oooh, RELATIONS doesn't have any I don't think.
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The double negative doesn't have much to do with it, it's more the fact that everyone who plays Countdown knows that RELATIONS = ORIENTALS = TENSORIAL.Adam Dexter wrote:Oh well... Just realised the double negative in his post... therefore meaning that he does think it does...
To cheer people up.so why post that on this thread?
Cheer up.Oh well... I'll just go and hang myself.
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Oh... I didn't know that it's an anagram of TENSORIAL... :'(Ben Hunter wrote: The double negative doesn't have much to do with it, it's more the fact that everyone who plays Countdown knows that RELATIONS = ORIENTALS = TENSORIAL.
Now I feel like a cretin.
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Re: Longest word with no anagrams
You're in luck - there's quite a few here for you to choose from.Adam Dexter wrote:Now I feel like a cretin.
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Don't you mean 'chin up' (to get his head into the noose)?Ben Hunter wrote:Cheer up.Oh well... I'll just go and hang myself.
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