Determine the longest possible word that contains exactly 4 of the vowels in alphabetical order.
*** Archaic/esoteric words are valid. However, slangs, acronyms/abbreviations, hyphenated words like X-ray, A-bomb are NOT permissible.
**** The half-vowel y is not considered as a vowel.
Note: The 4 different vowels are limited to one instance of a given vowel.
clearvars,clc
vowels='aeiou';
fid=fopen("c:\words\words.txt","r");
mx=0;
while ~feof(fid)
w=fgetl(fid);
if w==lower(w)
vset='';
for i=1:length(w)
f=strfind(vowels,w(i));
if length(f)==1
vset=[vset w(i)];
end
end
if length(vset)==4 && length(unique(vset))==4
if vset==sort(vset)
disp([w string(length(w))])
if length(w)>mx
mx=length(w);
end
end
end
end
end
fclose(fid);
mx
Finds 14 is the maximum length among:
"abjection" "9"
"abjections" "10"
"abstention" "10"
"abstentions" "11"
"accession" "9"
"accessions" "10"
"accretion" "9"
"accretions" "10"
"acerous" "7"
"acetous" "7"
"acinous" "7"
"adhesion" "8"
"adhesions" "9"
"adipous" "7"
"advection" "9"
"advections" "10"
"aecium" "6"
"aeriform" "8"
"aeroduct" "8"
"aeroducts" "9"
"affection" "9"
"affections" "10"
"afterthought" "12"
"afterthoughts" "13"
"aggression" "10"
"aggressions" "11"
"airbound" "8"
"alveolus" "8"
"amphioxus" "9"
"anestrous" "9"
"anginous" "8"
"anserous" "8"
"anterior" "8"
"anteriorly" "10"
"anthelion" "9"
"anthelions" "10"
"anthemion" "9"
"anxious" "7"
"anxiously" "9"
"aphelion" "8"
"aphelions" "9"
"apterium" "8"
"apterous" "8"
"arenous" "7"
"arpeggio" "8"
"arpeggios" "9"
"arsenous" "8"
"ascension" "9"
"ascensions" "10"
"aspergillum" "11"
"aspergillums" "12"
"aspergillus" "11"
"aspersion" "9"
"aspersions" "10"
"assertion" "9"
"assertions" "10"
"attention" "9"
"attentions" "10"
"aversion" "8"
"aversions" "9"
"bacterium" "9"
"bailout" "7"
"bailouts" "8"
"battleground" "12"
"battlegrounds" "13"
"blabbermouth" "12"
"blabbermouths" "13"
"blasphemous" "11"
"blasphemously" "13"
"brachypterous" "13"
"caesium" "7"
"caesiums" "8"
"callipygous" "11"
"campesino" "9"
"campesinos" "10"
"cancellous" "10"
"cancerous" "9"
"cancerously" "11"
"cankerous" "9"
"captious" "8"
"captiously" "10"
"caribou" "7"
"caribous" "8"
"carious" "7"
"carrefour" "9"
"carrefours" "10"
"caseous" "7"
"cavernous" "9"
"cavernously" "11"
"champertous" "11"
"cretinous" "9"
"dandelion" "9"
"dandelions" "10"
"dangerous" "9"
"dangerously" "11"
"deinonychus" "11"
"desirous" "8"
"desirously" "10"
"devious" "7"
"deviously" "9"
"enginous" "8"
"envious" "7"
"enviously" "9"
"epigonus" "8"
"epigynous" "9"
"factious" "8"
"factiously" "10"
"fadeout" "7"
"fadeouts" "8"
"fairground" "10"
"fairgrounds" "11"
"faitour" "7"
"faitours" "8"
"fashious" "8"
"flabelliform" "12"
"flameout" "8"
"flameouts" "9"
"fractious" "9"
"fractiously" "11"
"gangrenous" "10"
"gaseous" "7"
"gazehound" "9"
"gazehounds" "10"
"gladiolus" "9"
"gracious" "8"
"graciously" "10"
"gynaecium" "9"
"haviour" "7"
"haviours" "8"
"heinous" "7"
"heinously" "9"
"hemizygous" "10"
"kabeljou" "8"
"kabeljous" "9"
"lacteous" "8"
"lamellicorn" "11"
"lamellicorns" "12"
"lamelliform" "11"
"laminous" "8"
"larcenous" "9"
"larcenously" "11"
"largemouth" "10"
"largemouths" "11"
"lawrencium" "10"
"lawrenciums" "11"
"magnesium" "9"
"magnesiums" "10"
"maledictory" "11"
"malemiut" "8"
"malemiuts" "9"
"malleolus" "9"
"manitou" "7"
"manitous" "8"
"marvellous" "10"
"marvelous" "9"
"marvelously" "11"
"mysterious" "10"
"mysteriously" "12"
"nacreous" "8"
"neighbour" "9"
"neighbours" "10"
"pantechnicon" "12"
"pantechnicons" "13"
"paperbound" "10"
"paperbounds" "11"
"parhelion" "9"
"patelliform" "11"
"paviour" "7"
"paviours" "8"
"perigynous" "10"
"perilous" "8"
"perilously" "10"
"pervious" "8"
"phaseout" "8"
"phaseouts" "9"
"precious" "8"
"preciously" "10"
"previous" "8"
"previously" "10"
"psalterium" "10"
"racemous" "8"
"rainout" "7"
"rainouts" "8"
"rainspout" "9"
"rainspouts" "10"
"ravenous" "8"
"ravenously" "10"
"rediscount" "10"
"rediscounts" "11"
"resinous" "8"
"sanbenito" "9"
"sanbenitos" "10"
"sanious" "7"
"saphenous" "9"
"saviour" "7"
"saviours" "8"
"scabious" "8"
"scarious" "8"
"semigroup" "9"
"semigroups" "10"
"serious" "7"
"seriously" "9"
"shakeout" "8"
"shakeouts" "9"
"slanderous" "10"
"slanderously" "12"
"spacious" "8"
"spaciously" "10"
"specious" "8"
"speciously" "10"
"stakeout" "8"
"stakeouts" "9"
"takeout" "7"
"takeouts" "8"
"tedious" "7"
"tediously" "9"
"tendinous" "9"
"tendrilous" "10"
"trajection" "10"
"trajections" "11"
"transection" "11"
"transections" "12"
"transfection" "12"
"transfections" "13"
"transgression" "13"
"transgressions" "14"
"trapezium" "9"
"trapeziums" "10"
"trapezius" "9"
"valedictory" "11"
"variorum" "8"
"variorums" "9"
"various" "7"
"variously" "9"
"ventriloquy" "11"
"verminous" "9"
"wamefou" "7"
"wamefous" "8"
"waterspout" "10"
"waterspouts" "11"
mx =
14
(for transgressions)
I think the minimum, 6, for aecium, is more impressive.
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Posted by Charlie
on 2022-12-15 09:42:33 |
computer solution
