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Word Oddity (2) 'Backwords' (Posted on 2007-11-19) Difficulty: 1 of 5
What do the following words have in common?
Spoonfeed
Trollied
Sponged
Wronged

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Solution Solution | Comment 2 of 8 |

The common oddity of the words - spoonfeed, trollied, sponged and wronged - is the letters are arranged in reverse alphabetical order.

Other words of length six or greater with this oddity are:
spoonfed, sniffed, snigged, spiffed, spoofed, spooked, spooled, spoomed, spooned, trigged, trolled, vroomed, woolled, jigged, miffed, niffed, nigged, pigged, polled, pollee, pongee, ponied, poohed, pooled, rigged, rolled, roofed, rooked, rookie, roomed, roomie, spoked, sponge, tiffed, toffed, togged, tolled, tonged, tooled, toonie, unheed, wigged, wolfed, wonned, woofed, wooled, yolked, yukked, yuppie, zonked, zoomed, zooned and zigged.

Not all the words listed above are common words. Some are dated, regional, informal, slang or specialized.

Edited on November 20, 2007, 3:09 am
  Posted by Dej Mar on 2007-11-19 12:23:01

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