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There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters. What is the word?
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Sir Col
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Re: Ten words in one
« Reply #1 on: Jun 2nd, 2003, 4:14pm » |
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:: I guess you're thinking of 'therein', which actually contains eleven or twelve words: the, there, therein, he, her, here, herein, ere, rein, I, in; if you count 're', the Egyptian hawk-headed sun god, it contains twelve. ::
However, it can be beaten; there exists one word, in particular, which contains significantly more words. 
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on Jun 2nd, 2003, 4:14pm, Sir Col wrote::: I guess you're thinking of 'therein', which actually contains eleven or twelve words: the, there, therein, he, her, here, herein, ere, rein, I, in; if you count 're', the Egyptian hawk-headed sun god, it contains twelve. ::
However, it can be beaten; there exists one word, in particular, which contains significantly more words. |
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In this one word, do you need to rearrange the letters to form the significant amount of words found?
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Are you possibly referring to: SHADES, from which one obtains HADES, SHADE; ADES, HADE, SHAD; DES, ADE,
HAD, SHA; ES, DE, AD, HA, SH; S, E, D, A, H. All of these are words
given in Webster's Third?
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Re: Ten words in one
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on Jun 3rd, 2003, 11:15am, maryl wrote:| In this one word, do you need to rearrange the letters to form the significant amount of words found? |
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Yep.
I like your word, although it isn't the one I was thinking of.
I appreciate that words like 'sha' and 'd' may be found in Webster's, but they do stretch the boundaries of word puzzles somewhat. Putting them aside, and sticking with 'common' words (whatever that may mean), your word still has: shades, shade, shad, sh, hades, had, ha, ade, ad, a, des; which can all be found in common dictionaries.
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Here's a good one Sire: FIRESTONE: RE, TO, ON, NO, IF, FIR, IRE, RES, TON, ONE, NOT, RIF, FIRE,
IRES, REST, TONE, FIRES, STONE, SERIF
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on Jun 2nd, 2003, 4:14pm, Sir Col wrote:::
However, it can be beaten; there exists one word, in particular, which contains significantly more words. |
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Maybe the word you're thinking of is Dictionary. That contains significantly more words. 
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Re: Ten words in one
« Reply #7 on: Jun 4th, 2003, 12:10pm » |
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Very good, visitor. 
Maryl, you know when you asked...
on Jun 3rd, 2003, 11:15am, maryl wrote:| In this one word, do you need to rearrange the letters to form the significant amount of words found? |
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I meant the other, yep... no. Sorry! 
Although as far as sub-anagrams go, that is very impressive. Having said that, you've managed to uncover those words by just reading forwards and backwards. Nice twist. I need to investigate words of that type now...
In fact, I wonder if there's more mileage in searching for the word that contains the most sub-anagrams?
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Re: Ten words in one
« Reply #8 on: Jun 4th, 2003, 12:14pm » |
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Update: I stumbled on this webpage:
http://home.uchicago.edu/~msszczep/subanagram.html
Although it doesn't tell you which word has the most sub-anagrams, it will do a search on a word. Did you know that FIRESTONE has 217 sub-anagrams! ? 
By the way, the word I had in mind was thitherwards. Out of interest, how many common words would you count within it? I would include: thitherwards, thitherward, thither, hitherwards, hitherward, hither, hithe, hit, hi, it, i, the, her, he, wards, ward, war, ards, a; making 19 words.
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Re: Ten words in one
« Reply #9 on: Jun 4th, 2003, 2:11pm » |
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Yeah, I can't tell you the number of times I use thitherwards in "common" speach 
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Re: Ten words in one
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Various forms are in common use in the north of England, as in, we're going thither side of town, meaning, we're going to the other side of town, or it can mean towards a place; as in, with earnest resolve we marched thitherwards the meeting. We might also say, thither and hither, meaning here and there.
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Re: Ten words in one
« Reply #11 on: Jun 6th, 2003, 7:09am » |
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Yet another intersting difference in the languages. I had a hell of time finding a bandaid last semester when I hitch hiked through Great Britain until I realized I was looking for a plaster.
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Sir Col: "thitherwards"-good word, I could only find what you pointed out; and btw-thanks for the dictionary site!
Aeroguy: I guess our English is similiar to our French over here-considered slang by the Motherlands.
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Re: Ten words in one
« Reply #13 on: Jun 7th, 2003, 9:49pm » |
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This one has 7 letters and ALMOST 10 words...
I used Miscrost Word as a spell checker...
PANTIES:
Pa, pan, pant, an, ant, anti, ti, tie, ties.
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