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Word Wangle (Posted on 2022-03-27)

(i) Find a common 8-letter word that contains one letter occuring precisely five times.

(ii) Find a common 15-letter word that contains the letter E precisely 5 times and does NOT contain any other vowel.

*** No proper nouns, abbreviations, slangs or archaic/esoteric words.

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computer solutions (spoiler)

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clearvars,clc

letters8=fileread('c:\words\words8.txt');

l=length(letters8)/8;

for i=0:l-1

w=char(extractBetween(letters8,8*i+1,8*i+8));

wu=unique(w);

for j=1:length(wu)

ix=strfind(w,wu(j));

if length(ix)==5

disp(w)

end

letters15=fileread('c:\words\words15.txt');

l=length(letters15)/15;

for i=0:l-1

w=char(extractBetween(letters15,15*i+1,15*i+15));

ix=strfind(w,'e');

if length(ix)==5

good=true;

for k=1:length(w)

if ~isempty(strfind('aiou',w(k)))

good=false;

end

if good

disp(w)

end

finds

(i)
assesses

and


(ii)
cheerlessnesses
defenselessness  (probably the one wanted)
fencelessnesses
nervelessnesses
pervertednesses
senselessnesses
sleeplessnesses

Posted by Charlie on 2022-03-27 10:03:06

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