(I) Determine the longest common English word you can spell by repeating:
(a) Precisely 1 letter.
(b) Precisely 2 letters.
(II) Extend (I) to include archaic/esoteric words.
Note: No proper names/slangs/acronyms/abbreviations, nor hyphenated words like A-bomb, X-ray etc.
(In reply to
alt soln by Steven Lord)
Looking for longer word lists, I found one that came with my Mac /usr/share/dict/words - who knew?
So I looked there for words with 1 letter repeated and words with 2 letters repeated (using the SH interpretation of this problem). In my last post, I gave some words with 0 letters repeated (the longest were 15 letters long). Here are the longest with 2 and 1 letters repeated:
20 letter words - 2 letters repeated
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2 OOPHOROSALPINGECTOMY
19 letters words - 2 letters repeated
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2 CHONDROFIBROMATOUS
2 GALVANOPLASTICALLY
2 INDISCRIMINATINGLY
2 INDISCRIMINATIVELY
2 NONUNDERSTANDINGLY
2 OVERSIMPLIFICATION
2 PSEUDOANTHROPOLOGY
2 PSEUDOCHRONOLOGIST
2 PSEUDOCONGLOMERATE
2 UNDISCRIMINATINGLY
2 ZYGOMATICOSPHENOID
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Here are words with just one letter repeated:
17 letter words:
1 ANTHROPOSOCIOLOGY
1 HYPERCIVILIZATION
1 SUPERCIVILIZATION
16 letter words
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1 DISCRIMINABILITY
1 DISCRIMINATIVELY
1 DISEQUILIBRATION
1 DIVERSIFIABILITY
1 LYMPHANGIECTODES
1 PHANTASMAGORICAL
1 SEMICIVILIZATION
1 SUPERACHIEVEMENT
1 TRIGONOCEPHALOUS
1 VENTRICULOGRAPHY
The program is here
Edited on November 6, 2022, 3:09 am
re: alt soln
