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Most words from one set of letters
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"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" - you know, the sentence that uses every letter... well, I'm looking for something like this, only different.
My two year old boy loves the alphabet. Seriously, he loves it... he recites it all day long and is learning to spell and read everything. He has alphabet sheets and cannot swing on a swing without saying his ABCs with every upswing. We have a set of magnet letters that goes on the refrigerator, and we'll have them spell different words.
I was wondering, like "the quick brown fox," is there a established list of the most words you can spell using only one set of letters (only one set, so no repeating letters)? I'm at work right now, so without getting 26 post-it notes with letters on them to play with, I have to wait until I get home to experiment. I searched Google, but searching for "most words made with one set of letters" didn't get me anywhere. Anagram sites try to use every letter (I know I'll have a few unused letters left over... I'm just trying to minimize the number of unused letters).
I'm assuming that 6 words will be the max (the 6 vowels being the limiting factor). Also, this is for a two year old, so weird/difficult/dirty words are out. "WHY" was my first thought for the Y word, but I also like "LYNX" since it gets rid of X and is four letters, not three (although, the common letters L and N are wasted in the same word).
I know the possibilities are endless, I was just curious if anyone wanted to throw out suggestions or use his or her better Google-fu abilities to find a "quick brown fox" type solution on the internet.
My two year old boy loves the alphabet. Seriously, he loves it... he recites it all day long and is learning to spell and read everything. He has alphabet sheets and cannot swing on a swing without saying his ABCs with every upswing. We have a set of magnet letters that goes on the refrigerator, and we'll have them spell different words.
I was wondering, like "the quick brown fox," is there a established list of the most words you can spell using only one set of letters (only one set, so no repeating letters)? I'm at work right now, so without getting 26 post-it notes with letters on them to play with, I have to wait until I get home to experiment. I searched Google, but searching for "most words made with one set of letters" didn't get me anywhere. Anagram sites try to use every letter (I know I'll have a few unused letters left over... I'm just trying to minimize the number of unused letters).
I'm assuming that 6 words will be the max (the 6 vowels being the limiting factor). Also, this is for a two year old, so weird/difficult/dirty words are out. "WHY" was my first thought for the Y word, but I also like "LYNX" since it gets rid of X and is four letters, not three (although, the common letters L and N are wasted in the same word).
I know the possibilities are endless, I was just curious if anyone wanted to throw out suggestions or use his or her better Google-fu abilities to find a "quick brown fox" type solution on the internet.
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edit: my bad, you wanted perfect panagrams, which quick brown fox isnt.
From this Sesame Street clip-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr5er4ueWBQ
I swear, I have had that song stuck in my head for the past two months, when his ABC craze started. The song was buried under 25+ years of crap in my head but popped up immediately once I started writing the ABCs in his coloring books over and over. Nice to see the video again.
You could use a scrabble solver 7 letters at a time, or alternatively, this would be a pretty easy programming project.
And these are the best alphabet blocks EVER.
Brilliant.
But yeah, you probably need to make a couple sets of post-its with the alphabet, most of the 26 letter sentences use some random obscure words that I doubt most adults know, let alone little kids (Cwm? Crwth? Waqf? Can't say I've ever heard those words before in my life).
Does anyone buy their kid a $120 alphabet block set?
Oh god, flashbacks to the Tom Swifty thread.
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