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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?

Adam Dexter wrote:Duck, 3 letters, has 1 anagram using any letters.

CUD

Sorry, don't get this at all. DUCK has 4 letters, not 3. And CUD isn't an anagram of DUCK.

Do you mean find the longest word from which no other words of three letters or more can be made?

Phil Reynolds wrote:

Adam Dexter wrote:Duck, 3 letters, has 1 anagram using any letters.

CUD

Sorry, don't get this at all. DUCK has 4 letters, not 3. And CUD isn't an anagram of DUCK.

Do you mean find the longest word from which no other words of three letters or more can be made?

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!

GRRRL for 5, maybe? Or is GRR in there?

David Roe wrote:GRRRL for 5, maybe? Or is GRR in there?

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 anyway

Oooh, RELATIONS doesn't have any I don't think.

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).

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).

Congrats. SYZYGY was my word. That took approx 54 mins from OP. Too easy methinks.

Kai Laddiman wrote:Oooh, RELATIONS doesn't have any I don't think.

I hope you are joking.. ORIENTALS for a perfect solve.

CYCLIC.

Phil Reynolds wrote:CYCLIC.

Icy.

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).

Neil Zussman wrote:

Phil Reynolds wrote:CYCLIC.

Icy.

Well done Zussman - I was wondering which of you'd spot that one first.

Phil Reynolds wrote:

Neil Zussman wrote:

Phil Reynolds wrote:CYCLIC.

Icy.

Well done Zussman - I was wondering which of you'd spot that one first.

Have you cloned me without me knowing?

VOODOO.

David Roe wrote:GRRRL for 5, maybe? Or is GRR in there?

GRRRL is in (no GRR), but there's also GRRL.

Neil Zussman wrote:

Phil Reynolds wrote:CYCLIC.

Icy.

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).

QUICK - ICK is Countdown-valid.
SYZYGY is valid in Countdown (though currently the letters distribution renders it impossible to come out).
MUUMUU has sub-words MUM, UHM.

Yeah if you exclude two letter words you can get longer than six, IMO. I'm too tired to be bothered now.

Adam Dexter wrote:

Kai Laddiman wrote:Oooh, RELATIONS doesn't have any I don't think.

I hope you are joking.. ORIENTALS for a perfect solve.

You got out-humoured by a 12 year old

Ben Hunter wrote:

Adam Dexter wrote:

Kai Laddiman wrote:Oooh, RELATIONS doesn't have any I don't think.

I hope you are joking.. ORIENTALS for a perfect solve.

You got out-humoured by a 12 year old

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.

Adam Dexter wrote:Oh well... Just realised the double negative in his post... therefore meaning that he does think it does...

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.

so why post that on this thread?

To cheer people up.

Oh well... I'll just go and hang myself.

Cheer up.

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.

Oh... I didn't know that it's an anagram of TENSORIAL... :'(

Now I feel like a cretin.

Adam Dexter wrote:Now I feel like a cretin.

You're in luck - there's quite a few here for you to choose from.

Ben Hunter wrote:

Oh well... I'll just go and hang myself.

Cheer up.

Don't you mean 'chin up' (to get his head into the noose)?

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