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  2. List of English words without rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes—that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. . The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwa

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. List of English words containing Q not followed by U

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    QWERTY, one of the few native English words with Q not followed by U, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. In English, the letter Q is almost always followed immediately by the letter U, e.g. quiz, quarry, question, squirrel. However, there are some exceptions.

  6. Wikipedia:List of English contractions - Wikipedia

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    you are not / you have not / you did not (colloquial) y’all: you all (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’d’ve: you all would have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’dn't’ve: you all would not have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’re: you all are (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all ...

  7. Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United ...

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    name of the last letter of the English alphabet (UK: zed) [842] zilch nothing, zero [843] zinger a witty, often caustic remark; something supposed to cause surprise or shock ZIP code (for Zone Improvement Plan) the postal code used by the United States Postal Service composed of 5 digits as in 90210, sometimes a suffix of 4 digits after a hyphen is

  8. English words without vowels - Wikipedia

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    English orthography typically represents vowel sounds with the five conventional vowel letters a, e, i, o, u , as well as y , which may also be a consonant depending on context. However, outside of abbreviations, there are a handful of words in English that do not have vowels, either because the vowel sounds are not written with vowel letters ...

  9. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The letters þ and ð are still used in present-day Icelandic (where they now represent two separate sounds, /θ/ and /ð/ having become phonemically-distinct – as indeed also happened in Modern English), while ð is still used in present-day Faroese (although only as a silent letter). Wynn disappeared from English around the 14th century ...