What kind of people can answer the following riddle?
Call a=1, b=2, and so on. What is the longest common English word that can be made from only prime letters?
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Heh, yeah.. my next guess:
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Prime letters:
Since repetition is not specifically disallowed:
If that's not "common" enough:
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The question was "What kind of people can answer this riddle?" So, although @rand al'thor has responded to the longest word, the answer is Stack Exchange Puzzling users. |
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The prime-numbered letters are:
The longest words that can be made with these letters appears to be
If you allow the letter A (even though 1 is usually taken to be neither prime nor composite), then the longest word made of only those letters would be
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Here's a longer word considered valid by Hasbro's Scrabble dictionary:
I used Litscape which also suggested |
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Though that's more then one word, but a good string of bad adjectives may help. |
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