Consider the word 'cheat'. Removing letters one at a time will leave a sequence of words, all the way down to one letter:
cheat
heat
hat
at
a
What is the longest word with this property?
Not the longest word, but my attempt at finding one (ending with o).
- portiones - (plural of portio) [anatomy] a division of a larger structure
- portions - (plural of portion)
- portion - the result of parcelling out or sharing
- porion - [anatomy] the most lateral point in the roof of the bony external auditory passageway
- prion - an infectious protein partical
- pion - a subatomic particle
- ion - an electrically charged particle
- on - above and in contact with; attached to; operational; in progress; planned
- o - a cipher; zero; the letter O, something shaped it or its sound; a circle or oval
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Posted by Dej Mar
on 2007-04-18 19:32:30 |
Not so long, but with a different end
