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The Incredible Shrinking Word (Posted on 2007-04-16)

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?

See The Solution Submitted by Brian Smith

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Comment 5 of 5 |

"Abranchiates".

The singular version , i.e., abranchiate, indicates an organism that does not have any gills.

Edited on March 13, 2023, 10:58 pm

Posted by K Sengupta on 2023-03-13 22:53:19

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