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.
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