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Words in Planets |
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Some
time in 2006 I read that it is possible to make 92 other English
words from the letters in “Planets.” I immediately started this
list. No rules were given, but I’ve assumed the following: No
plurals – So you can have Ant, but not Ants. Letters may not be used twice – so you cannot have Tent. No proper names. No
foreign words, except those that are so widely and commonly used as
to be now considered part of the English language. Within
a short time I came up with 73 words. In
December, 2007, I added six words, including such obvious ones as
“as,” “an,” and “at.” Having ignored the project for a
year seemed to have given me new perspective. After
that I added another dozen words, including the seemingly
obvious pen, pelt, pent, plate, asp, spent and span. Kudos to Clayton Walker who came up with nine words the same day he looked at this page, and inspired me to add platen. Several of his words were "obvious," and two were amazingly obscure. The next day Jennifer came up with nine more, most of them also "obvious." Then she sent four more! So far no word uses all the letters (i.e., an anagram). “Staple” comes the closest. We've now passed the magic number of 92, but there's no need to rest on our laurels, so Email us additional words and get credit below. --Dick Estel, May 2014 |
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Ale Alps An Ant Ape Apse Apt As Asp Aspen At Ate East Eat Élan Lane Lap Last Late |
Lea Lean Leap Leapt Least Lent Lest Let Lets Nap Nape Neat Nest Net Pal Pale Palet Pan Pane
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Pant Pants Past Paste Pat Pate Paten Pea Peal Peat Pelt Pen Penal Pent Pest Pet Petal Plan Plane |
Plant Plat Plate Platen Plea Pleat Sale Salt Sane Sap Sate Sea Seal Seat Sent Set Slant Slap Slat |
Slate Snap Span Spat Spate Spelt Spent Splat Stale Staple Steal Step Tale Tan Tap Tape Tea Teal Temp Ten |
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Contributors to this list include Mikie Liddle, Jennifer Neely and Clayton Walker (word count is now 96) |
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