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Pemmican
#5369 Sat, 23 Aug 03 03:37 AM
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What's the longest possible English word in that every letter occurs only once? ![Smile [:)]](/emoticons/emotion-1.gif)
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Westphalia, Germany
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Wâ mag ich mich nu vinden? wâ mac ich mich nu suochen, wâ? nu bin ich hie und bin ouch dâ und enbin doch weder dâ noch hie. wer wart ouch sus verirret ie?wer wart ie sus...
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Pemmican
#5451 Sun, 24 Aug 03 02:40 AM
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Not even a try? ![Sad [:(]](/emoticons/emotion-6.gif) Well then, I'll give you a hint:
It has 15 letters...
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Woodward
#5465 Sun, 24 Aug 03 05:32 AM
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I'll need time to think about this, or should I say, look it up!
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Pemmican
#5624 Mon, 25 Aug 03 10:50 PM
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2nd hint:
all the five vowels occur...
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Pemmican
#5653 Tue, 26 Aug 03 01:19 AM
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Woodward
#5655 Tue, 26 Aug 03 01:27 AM
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It's a bit difficult, and I still haven't had time to find it. Give it a couple of days in case someone else knows it.
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Pemmican
#5657 Tue, 26 Aug 03 01:32 AM
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Ok, I will...
but I don't think it's possible to find such a word when you don't know it... it'll be damn hard to conclude a word like that I'd say...
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hitchhiker
#5674 Tue, 26 Aug 03 04:02 AM
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I tried it, I found 38,000+ words with no letter repetition; the longest were..
dermatoglyphics (15), uncopyrightable (15)
This was from an indexed dictionary of 'normal / regular' words.
Here's the top lot!
15,"dermatoglyphics"
15,"uncopyrightable"
14,"troublemakings"
14,"dermatoglyphic"
14,"ambidextrously"
13,"documentarily"
13,"consumptively"
13,"copyrightable"
13,"endolymphatic"
13,"flowchartings"
13,"hydromagnetic"
13,"lycanthropies"
13,"troublemaking"
13,"unpredictably"
13,"unproblematic"
13,"subordinately"
13,"metalworkings"
13,"multibranched"
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"OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah?"
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Elena
#5682 Tue, 26 Aug 03 08:02 AM
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Overwhelming answer.
And almost all those words come from Latin and some of them from Greek.
I like 'dermatoglyphics' , the folds on skin, I never realised I had dermatoglyphics, beautiful word related to fingerprints.
(Is 'overwhelming' correctly used here?)
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Spain
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Enjoying my English study
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