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Start with one letter that is a word, and keep adding letters, one at a time, inserting them at any point in the word. After each iteration, your word must still be a word!

Like so:

a

as

ask

mask

or

i

is

ins

tins

tines

[etc]

Obviously those aren't the longest words you can make starting with 'a' and 'i'. What are?

And as there aren't any other legal one-letter words, what if you could start off with any letter and then every letter after that had to be a word?

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trying some consonants as starting letters:

b

ab

tab

stab

stabs

c

CD?

cod

code

coder

colder

scolder

scolders

d

do

doe

dope

doper

dopper (it's a word)

dropper

droppers

f

of

oft

loft

lofty

g

ag

tag

stag

stage

staged

h

hi

hit

sh*t

shift

shifts

I'll be back with some more, ttfn.

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nice :)

I've found two different routes to 'balast':

a

at

bat

bast (meaning 1, meaning 2)

blast

balast

a

as

aas (could be "aa's" or Aas or...? lol)

alas

balas (a ruby spinel)

balast

route 2.1

a

as

las???

blas (as in, multiple "bla"s)

balas

balast

unfortunately all of that was for "balast", which I've realized isn't an actual word :lol: It's ballast

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They're totally words. Just.. not quite in the dictionary? 'Detachers' works with spell check. If I type in 'despatch' in the dictionary on my MacBook, 'dispatch' comes up with 'also despatch' written next to it. :)

No, I meant you 'scrambled' the words, ie, changed around the order of the letters. You can only insert new letters

also ignore that I said cheaters OR teachers, it ends at cheaters only :)

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They're totally words. Just.. not quite in the dictionary? 'Detachers' works with spell check. If I type in 'despatch' in the dictionary on my MacBook, 'dispatch' comes up with 'also despatch' written next to it. :)

Izzy, I don't think the criticism was with whether they're words, but that you didn't keep the same order of the letters. You can insert the new letter anywhere, but you can't mess with the ones that are already there (it's "letter chains", not "anagram letter chains")

edit: oops, sorry, I missed unreality's post. didn't mean to be over-correcting

(@unreality: one distinct advantage of the current incog site)

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