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  2. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

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    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...

  3. -gry puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The answer is "energy". The riddle says that the word ends in the letters g-r-y; it says nothing about the order of the letters. Many words end with "-rgy", but energy is something everyone uses every day. There are at least three words in the English language that end in "g" or "y". One of them is "hungry", and another one is "angry".

  4. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.

  5. Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    1.1 With unusual spelling. 1.2 By formation. 1.3 By pronunciation. 1.4 By provenance. 1.5 By part of speech. ... List of words ending in ology-graphy-ism; By ...

  6. Glossary of shapes with metaphorical names - Wikipedia

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    I-shape, the shape that resembles the capital letter Ɪ in a serif font, i.e., with horizontal strokes Ɪ-beam, a beam with an Ɪ-shaped section; The court in the Mesoamerican ballgame is I-shaped; J-shape, the shape that resembles the capital letter J; K-shape, the shape that resembles the capital letter K. K-shaped recession; K turn

  7. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    The black squares must be arranged so as to (1) ensure there are no two-letter words; (2) form 180-degree rotational symmetry (so that if the grid is turned upside-down, the pattern of black squares remains the same); (3) ensure that every letter is checked (appears in both an across and a down word); (4) not occupy too much of the puzzle ...

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  9. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    Letter frequencies, like word frequencies, tend to vary, both by writer and by subject. For instance, d occurs with greater frequency in fiction, as most fiction is written in past tense and thus most verbs will end in the inflectional suffix -ed / -d. One cannot write an essay about x-rays without using x frequently. Different authors have ...