What is the shortest word you can find with the most letters of the alphabet in order (Not necessarily together)

eg.
aback ABC
defrosting DEFG

What about in reverse?

eg.
feedback FEDC

Try to maximise the number of letters while minimizing the word length

Maximizing letters and minimizing word length provides these two:

HI

NO


I figure if you divide the total number of alphabetical letters by the number of letters in the word these two each score 100%.  :D

Posted by Erik O. on 2005-01-20 20:36:11