Dave T's Journal

words lacking in everydayness
Recently while studying, I've been having trouble recognizing 7s and 8s that contain common letters but in uncommon patterns, words like INDEVOUT, BEDSONIA, and TEVATRON. So I decided to try to rank words by some metric of how common their pieces were so that I could spend some more time on them. I compared each group of three letters in a word to the letters from the same location in all the words with the same length. I then added the relative ranks for each group of three letters to get a score for the word. When you rank the words of a given length by score there are a bunch of really unusual words near the bottom (and some common words like UNUSUAL). I thought someone might enjoy the list so I've included the bottom 100 6s, 7s, and 8s. I also found some great longer words like DRYASDUST, BAHUVRIHI, CHUGALUGGING, OLOLIUQUI, EVERYDAYNESS, and the painful sounding UNCIRCUMCISIONS.

And yes, I realize this exercise was maybe a little excessive. But it didn't take long, and I'm going through a small bout of insomnia and wasn't getting anything productive done in lab the other day.

( 100 least common 6s, 7s, and 8s... )

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