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The following nine words are the only words in the entire English language* that have a certain extraordinary property:
- bevy
- by
- girt
- grit
- hovels
- lo
- vole
- wizard
- wold
What is that property?
* that I was able to find, based on a search of a 100,000-word English dictionary.
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The following nine words are the only words in the entire English language* that have a certain extraordinary property:
- bevy
- by
- girt
- grit
- hovels
- lo
- vole
- wizard
- wold
What is that property?
* that I was able to find, based on a search of a 100,000-word English dictionary.
word english word-property
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Rand al'Thor
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asked 1 hour ago
plasticinsectplasticinsect
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Great question!
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The following nine words are the only words in the entire English language* that have a certain extraordinary property:
- bevy
- by
- girt
- grit
- hovels
- lo
- vole
- wizard
- wold
What is that property?
* that I was able to find, based on a search of a 100,000-word English dictionary.
word english word-property
edited 1 hour ago
Rand al'Thor
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asked 1 hour ago
plasticinsectplasticinsect
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The following nine words are the only words in the entire English language* that have a certain extraordinary property:
- bevy
- by
- girt
- grit
- hovels
- lo
- vole
- wizard
- wold
What is that property?
* that I was able to find, based on a search of a 100,000-word English dictionary.
word english word-property
word english word-property
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Rand al'Thor
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plasticinsectplasticinsect
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Rand al'Thor
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plasticinsectplasticinsect
1815
edited 1 hour ago
Rand al'Thor
69.1k14229462
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Rand al'Thor
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Rand al'Thor
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plasticinsectplasticinsect
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plasticinsectplasticinsect
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I think the property is
that applying the Atbash cipher (replacing each letter with its alphabetic inverse - $A leftrightarrow Z, B leftrightarrow Y$, etc.) yields the same result as reversing the word.
In other words,
the first and last, second and second-to-last, etc. letters in each word are alphabetic inverses: B and Y, E and V, I and R, L and O, etc.
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The First letter is as far away from the beginning of the alphabet as the last letter is to the end.
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The wordswood,birthday, andgoatsatisfy the rule you have specified, but are not on plasticinsect's list.
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I think the property is
that applying the Atbash cipher (replacing each letter with its alphabetic inverse - $A leftrightarrow Z, B leftrightarrow Y$, etc.) yields the same result as reversing the word.
In other words,
the first and last, second and second-to-last, etc. letters in each word are alphabetic inverses: B and Y, E and V, I and R, L and O, etc.
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I think the property is
that applying the Atbash cipher (replacing each letter with its alphabetic inverse - $A leftrightarrow Z, B leftrightarrow Y$, etc.) yields the same result as reversing the word.
In other words,
the first and last, second and second-to-last, etc. letters in each word are alphabetic inverses: B and Y, E and V, I and R, L and O, etc.
answered 1 hour ago
Rand al'ThorRand al'Thor
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I think the property is
that applying the Atbash cipher (replacing each letter with its alphabetic inverse - $A leftrightarrow Z, B leftrightarrow Y$, etc.) yields the same result as reversing the word.
In other words,
the first and last, second and second-to-last, etc. letters in each word are alphabetic inverses: B and Y, E and V, I and R, L and O, etc.
answered 1 hour ago
Rand al'ThorRand al'Thor
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I think the property is
that applying the Atbash cipher (replacing each letter with its alphabetic inverse - $A leftrightarrow Z, B leftrightarrow Y$, etc.) yields the same result as reversing the word.
In other words,
the first and last, second and second-to-last, etc. letters in each word are alphabetic inverses: B and Y, E and V, I and R, L and O, etc.
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The First letter is as far away from the beginning of the alphabet as the last letter is to the end.
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The wordswood,birthday, andgoatsatisfy the rule you have specified, but are not on plasticinsect's list.
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The wordswood,birthday, andgoatsatisfy the rule you have specified, but are not on plasticinsect's list.
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The wordswood,birthday, andgoatsatisfy the rule you have specified, but are not on plasticinsect's list.
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The wordswood,birthday, andgoatsatisfy the rule you have specified, but are not on plasticinsect's list.
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