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Ambigram: a word which can be read just as well mirrored or upside down; Blanagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase and substituting one single letter to produce a new word or phrase; Letter bank: using the letters from a certain word or phrase as many times as wanted to produce a new word or phrase
Ambigram candidates can become "almost natural", when all the letters except maybe one or two are symmetrically cooperative, for example the word "awesome" possesses 5 compatible letters (the central s that flips around itself, and the couples a/e and w/m).
A one-letter word is a word composed of a single letter. The application of this apparently simple definition is complex, due to the difficulty of defining the notions of word and letter. One-letter words have an uncertain status in language theory, dictionaries and social usage.
Everyone offers this thing, but few will take it when it is offered by someone else. Flat as a leaf, round as a ring, has two eyes, but can't see a thing. He gets short when he gets old; He goes out then it gets cold. When all inlined, move to the right one, add an L. Such a word sounds like an event that occurred between two famous people.
describing something as positioned in front of another thing Latin āntē, before, in front of antepartum: anthropo-human Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos), human anthropology: anti-describing something as 'against' or 'opposed to' another Greek ἀντί (antí), against antibody, antipsychotic: apo-away, separated from, derived from
The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus. However, this is arguably a proper noun. There are several six-letter English words with their letters in alphabetical order, including abhors, almost, begins, biopsy, chimps and chintz. [32]
Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. [27] The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden ...
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard dictionary or lexicon.