What do the words BAA, CAB, RUST and STRUT all have in common? Each word is formed from adjacent letters of the alphabet, so CAB is made up of A, B and C; STRUT of R, S, T (twice) and U.
So I thought to myself, what's the longest word whose letters are adjacent? To find out I grabbed a long list of words and wrote a short Python script and discovered these two seven letter words:
- POMPOON n. a jewelled hair ornament on a pin (The Chambers Dictionary, 2003)
- TUSSURS n. oriental moths that produce brownish silk (WordNet)
Can you find longer words? What about words in languages other than English?
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