{"id":8457,"date":"2023-04-01T22:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T22:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=8457"},"modified":"2023-04-01T22:56:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T22:56:02","slug":"the-words-that-go-a-z1a-z1a-z1a-z1a-z1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/01\/the-words-that-go-a-z1a-z1a-z1a-z1a-z1\/","title":{"rendered":"The words that go (.)[a-z]\\1[a-z]\\1[a-z]\\1[a-z]\\1[a-z]\\1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of my old hobbies is <em>playing with words<\/em>. I love all sort of dad jokes, &#8220;the longest&#8221; words, &#8220;the weirdest&#8221; words, &#8220;foreign words&#8221;, homonyms, homophones, palindromes, synonyms, antonyms, metonyms, as well as limericks, haikus, stupid poems, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/03\/enter-sandbox-special-edition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4287\">lyrics<\/a>, word clanging, and so on and so forth. I also used to create my own crosswords, and even wrote a software to generate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/11\/malicious-magic-squares\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1954\">magic squares<\/a>. Believe it or not, I got some of this work published&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, for the topic of today&#8217;s post I decided to look for words that include the same letter at least 6 times and all of these letters must be interleaved with other letters forming &#8216;real&#8217; words. Things like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>hohohohoho, or<\/li><li>banananananana, or<\/li><li>tralalalalalalalala<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These are rare occurrences, unicorns amongst words, amongst world languages, hence&#8230; interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the examples I have listed above are quite stupid, because these are not real words, really, even if you can find some &#8216;definitions&#8217; of them online&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a more real-world example, let&#8217;s look at the word <em>floccinaucinihilipilificate<\/em> &#8211; it includes 7 &#8220;i&#8221;s in a sequence. Yay! The words <em>divisibilities<\/em> and <em>indivisibilities <\/em>as well as <em>dirigibilities<\/em> are also interesting. So is <em>monogonoporous<\/em>. So is <em>taramasalata<\/em>. So is <em>takamarahaga<\/em>. What about <em>humuhumunukunukuapuaa<\/em>? Danish word <em>degenereret<\/em> also comes to the rescue. And Dutch <em>spiegeleieren<\/em>. And so does Hungarian <em>f\u00e9lrevezet\u00e9se<\/em> (ignore accents). And a number of Swahili words: <em>akawatazama<\/em>, <em>atawatawala<\/em>, <em>harakaharaka<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know it&#8217;s all a silly game, but these words have one thing in common: they represent the complexity of our world, as seen via linguistical lenses, no matter how shallow&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is April Fool&#8217;s Day: if there is one lesson we can learn from research like this it is that we really know very little about the world&#8230; fooling around helps though, and should be strongly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my old hobbies is playing with words. I love all sort of dad jokes, &#8220;the longest&#8221; words, &#8220;the weirdest&#8221; words, &#8220;foreign words&#8221;, homonyms, homophones, palindromes, synonyms, antonyms, metonyms, as well as limericks, haikus, stupid poems, lyrics, word clanging, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/01\/the-words-that-go-a-z1a-z1a-z1a-z1a-z1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8458,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions\/8458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}