Original Poster Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 hey i am doing a puzzle and my english is bad! I need help finding a 10 letter work which the first letter is also the last as well as the forth one in for example.... there are NO other pairings or patterns i can remember other then whats bellow (not the real characters) just the general format A _ _ _AB _ B _ A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleNeutrino Veteran Posted October 4, 2012 Veteran Share Posted October 4, 2012 To bad it cannot be 11 letters abracadabra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted October 4, 2012 Veteran Share Posted October 4, 2012 I have tried multiple word solvers online and none of them can get a word from those letters and spaces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystic Mungis Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Was that what you have so far or was it just an example? If it was just an example then here are some words. Aquaphobia, Concentric, Seasonings. If not then you said that the first, fourth and last letters were the same but you have the first, fifth and last letter as "A", could you clarify? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 I've downloaded a 16MB English word list and I'll throw a regular expression at it as soon as it's uploaded to my SSH server :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 aaaaaaaaaa adhyaatama alakananda alokananda atulananda calycozoic decodified eoeoeoeole escheatage gaingiving giftgiving hahahahahh hahahhahah iiiiiiiiii mmmmmmmmmm oooooooooo satisifies scorsese's serosities serostatus showstatus sparseness sparsities sponsorors spouseless ssssssssss statsifies subisidies tapotement traitement treatement xxxxxxxxxx zzzzzzzzzz You might want to exclude the things that aren't words, I chose a very complete list :p According to Word's EN-GB spell check these are the only real words: sparseness spouseless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmanchu Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 AORTARCTIA word seen in word list ARIMATHAEA word seen in word list ADELARTHRA word seen in word list ARARACANGA word seen in word list ALPHARETTA word seen in word list ACOLA****A word seen in word list ADAMANTOMA word seen in word list AGORAMANIA word seen in word list AMETABOLIA word seen in word list ASARABACCA word seen in word list ANOMATHECA word seen in word list ALEXANDRIA word seen in crossword puzzles word seen in word list ARCHAURORA word seen in word list ACROATAXIA word seen in word list AHEPATOKLA word seen in word list AMARAKOSHA word seen in word list ANACAHUITA word seen in word list ANIMABRUTA word seen in word list ANIMALCULA word seen in word list AMPHANTHIA word seen in word list Just an example you might be able to solve it with this site... http://www.oneacross...F%3F%3FA&s=+Go+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 If anyone else wants to grep it, this is the regex. "^\([A-Za-z]\)...\1\([A-Za-Z]\).\2.\1$"[/CODE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Another (better) word list gave me this: escheatagegaingivingsparsenessspouselesstapotement[/CODE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Another (better) word list gave me this: escheatagegaingivingsparsenessspouselesstapotement[/CODE] The 4th letter must be the same as the 1st and last, you have the 5th not the 4th ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 The 4th letter must be the same as the 1st and last, you have the 5th not the 4th ;) Depends. I went with the A _ _ _AB _ B _ A he gave in his post, but the regular expression is easily adjusted :p I'll see what he's got to say about it. Detection 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Poster Posted October 4, 2012 Author Share Posted October 4, 2012 ha sorry ! possibly found it but i dunno il tell u soon Was that what you have so far or was it just an example? If it was just an example then here are some words. Aquaphobia, Concentric, Seasonings. If not then you said that the first, fourth and last letters were the same but you have the first, fifth and last letter as "A", could you clarify? you have the right idea seasonings is the right fomat but i dunno if right yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 So it's actually A**A*B*B*A? If yes: grep "^\([A-Za-z]\)..\1.\([A-Za-z]\).\2.\1$" dict.txteffeminiseeffeminizeexpeditivesassararasseasoningssussararas[/CODE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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