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Is there a six-letter word? (Posted on 2005-05-03) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Make the longest word you can make out of these six letters:
A, E, I, N, S, T.

Rules:

  1. No letter may be used twice.
  2. No other letter or symbol may be used.
  3. It must be a common English word.
  4. No proper nouns.

See The Solution Submitted by Dustin    
Rating: 3.0000 (7 votes)

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Solution | Comment 3 of 21 |

[BAD solution....Uses letters other than the six given. I thought the puzzle meant "has to use those six letters - but can use others...." That was my fault, not the fault of the original wording of the puzzle.] 

Assuming that the puzzle means "none of those six letters can be used two or more times", the most common non-proper English word that meets the puzzle conditions is: 

oophorosalpingectomy (20 letters)

JUST KIDDING !!!!!

The longest words my program found were the following 15 letter words: commonwealthism, controversially, excommunicators,  neuropsychiatry, overpopulations and 
unsymmetrically.

 

 

Edited on May 3, 2005, 10:35 pm

Edited on May 4, 2005, 12:20 am

Edited on May 4, 2005, 12:32 am
  Posted by Penny on 2005-05-03 22:33:12

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