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  2. Four-letter word - Wikipedia

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    The term four-letter word serves as a euphemism for words that are often considered profane or offensive.. The designation "four-letter" arises from the observation that many (though not all) popular or slang terms related to excretory functions, sexual activity, genitalia, blasphemies, and terms linked to Hell or damnation are incidentally four-character monosyllables.

  3. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...

  4. Jumble - Wikipedia

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    A weekly "kids version" of the puzzle features a three-letter word plus three four-letter words. In order to find the letters that are in the answer to the given clue, the player must unscramble all four of the scrambled words; the letters that are in the clue will be circled. The contestant then unscrambles the circled letters to form the ...

  5. Suzi ... and Other Four Letter Words - Wikipedia

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    These are "judiciously balanced with a string of tuneful, keyboard-based mid-tempo tunes" such as "Hollywood" and the "pop-inflected reggae groove" of "Four Letter Words". Guarisco feels that the downside of the album is that "many of the songs recycle the same double-time backbeat" and singles out "You Are My Lover" whose melody "is minimalist ...

  6. Rock and Other Four Letter Words - Wikipedia

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    Rock and Other Four Letter Words is the companion album, or "auditory extension", of a paperback book of the same name, also authored by J Marks. [1] [2] Published in 1968 by Bantam Books, with photography from Linda Eastman, [3] the book is a stylized pop encyclopedia [4] that compiles pictures and quotations from rock musicians interviewed by Marks, [1] [5] alongside fold-out pages, large ...

  7. The New York Times Spelling Bee - Wikipedia

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    Each puzzle is guaranteed to have at least one pangram, a word containing at least one of each of the seven letters. Pangrams awards double points (e.g. a seven-letter pangram scores 14 points). [1] [2] If the player finds all of the possible words in a given puzzle, they achieve the title of "Queen Bee". [3] In 2021, the editor Sam Ezersky ...

  8. Bulls and cows - Wikipedia

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    It is exactly like the numerical version, except instead of four-digit numbers, four-letter words are used. They must be real words, according to whatever language or languages the game is being played in. Alternative versions of the game can be played with three-letter or five-letter words, but the four-letter version remains the most popular one.

  9. Collins Scrabble Words - Wikipedia

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    Collins Scrabble Words (CSW, formerly SOWPODS) is the word list used in English-language tournament Scrabble in most countries except the US, Thailand and Canada, [1] although Scrabble tournaments in the US and Canada are also organized with divisions that use Collins Scrabble Words as their lexicon, some under the auspices of organizations such as the Collins Coalition.