[Guest]

"Alphabet Million" (lemonymelon's topic, I believe) got me thinking...

Using the same method- "give every letter in the alphabet a number eg a=1 b=2 c=3 and so forth; then give words values by multiplying the numbers of their letters"- what is the largest value you can find for a 3 letter word, and the smallest you can get from a 6 letter word?

I have two words in mind, but I wonder if anyone can find better ones.

Also, what is the longest word with the smallest value (say, under 500 or under 1000), if you can even find it?

Not really a riddle... I just wonder what people can come up with.

[Guest]

xyz

cabeca

[Guest]

xyz is not a word.

[HoustonHokie]

wow = 7935

abacas = 114

[Guest]

Why? - 4600

Probably not the best, but it's a start.

Dang, beat me Houston.

Edited June 25, 2008 by Frost

[HoustonHokie]

tux = 10080

or if tux is considered an abbreviation instead of a word, how about tut = 8400

[Guest]

xyz

cabeca

Neither one of those are in websters. Im not sure what we want to qualify as words.

yuk and abacas

[HoustonHokie]

cabana = 84

[Guest]

TRY = 9,000

[Guest]

TRY = 9,000

wry: 10350

[HoustonHokie]

wry=10350

dawh you beat me to it...

Edited June 25, 2008 by HoustonHokie

[Guest]

It depends which dictionaries you use, I imagine. My guesses based on words you can use in Scrabble ...

Short word: Zzz

Long word: Banana

[Guest]

don't think this really counts but my computer recognizes it as a word: "wuz-nonstandard spelling of was, representing dialect or informal pronunciation."

[Guest]

It depends which dictionaries you use, I imagine. My guesses based on words you can use in Scrabble ...

Short word: Zzz

Long word: Banana

Changing my long word ...

Cabala = 72

[Guest]

If all Scrabble words are legal, then I'll go with "ZZZ" for the biggest 3-letter word (17,576). Yes, it's a word in scrabble.

Smallest 6-letter word...I had "BANANA" for 392 but then there's "CABANA," which is only 84. Smaller yet is "CABALA," which is worth only 72.

For 7-letter words, "ACACIAS" comes in at 1539, but "CABALAS" is only worth 1368, which is the smallest I can see by a long shot.

Longest word I found worth less than 1000 points is only 5 letters, "BABAS," worth 76 points.

Anyone else?

[Guest]

zuz- 14196. its an ancient Hebrew coin. Thanks Google Dictionary!

[Guest]

gadaba=56

[Guest]

WRY - 10350

[Guest]

YUP--

25 * 21 * 16

colloquial, but I think it's in the dictionary.

"Alphabet Million" (lemonymelon's topic, I believe) got me thinking...

Using the same method- "give every letter in the alphabet a number eg a=1 b=2 c=3 and so forth; then give words values by multiplying the numbers of their letters"- what is the largest value you can find for a 3 letter word, and the smallest you can get from a 6 letter word?

I have two words in mind, but I wonder if anyone can find better ones.

Also, what is the longest word with the smallest value (say, under 500 or under 1000), if you can even find it?

Not really a riddle... I just wonder what people can come up with.

[Guest]

Yut = 105000

Gotta love those kookie Koreans.

[Guest]

and for the opposite end of the spectrum: Baa = 2

[Guest]

wry, 10,500

gadaba and badaga both at 56

syrupy a close third at 71,820,000

longest under 1000 : fabaceae - 920

smallest 7 letter word - alabama - 312

[Guest]

the highest scoring, normal-sounding word that isn't antidisestablishmentarianism --

untrustworthiness - 190,858,741,899,034,000,000

Also, antidisestablishmentarianism = 9,866,462,815,256,950,000,000,000

[Guest]

(Sorry, also off topic)What about pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis? I bet that's pretty big too. I'm not going to multiply it out though.

And yes, that is a word, google it if you don't believe me.

Edited June 25, 2008 by Frost

[Guest]

(Sorry, also off topic)What about pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis? I bet that's pretty big too. I'm not going to multiply it out though.

And yes, that is a word, google it if you don't believe me.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis would be 1,752,294,716,754,400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Question --which would make me more of a geek :

1 - Multiplying that out by hand just to see the answer

2 - admitting that I wrote some visual basic code to do the multiplying for me

[Guest]

"Alphabet Million" (lemonymelon's topic, I believe) got me thinking...

Using the same method- "give every letter in the alphabet a number eg a=1 b=2 c=3 and so forth; then give words values by multiplying the numbers of their letters"- what is the largest value you can find for a 3 letter word, and the smallest you can get from a 6 letter word?

I have two words in mind, but I wonder if anyone can find better ones.

Also, what is the longest word with the smallest value (say, under 500 or under 1000), if you can even find it?

Not really a riddle... I just wonder what people can come up with.

It's a "proper" word, but it came to mind, Phil Collins has a song called "Abacab", score a whopping TWELVE points.

Also a proper word, is my favorite brand of Distilled Russian Happy, "Zyr", scoring in at 11,700

Edited June 25, 2008 by Gushi