Here’s a minor interruption to introduce isograms and discuss one aspect of their relevance in Kryptos.
An isogram is a word that doesn’t repeat a letter.
I was trying to find words to fill my proto-foursquare grids and isograms seem to be a really nifty way of trying to work around some of the problems I’ve been having. Meaningful possible candidates for keywords that you don’t have to drop a letter as you go to use?
There are a lot of isograms out there but I needed a 15 letter one without an A. Might as well try and find a unicorn!
For those of us who like to have fun with words, here are some of the longer ones:
11 letters
- abolishment
- atmospheric
- backgrounds
- campgrounds
- complainers
- countryside
- dangerously
- disgraceful
- disturbance
- documentary
- facetiously
- fracedinous
- filmography
- fluoridates
- lumberjacks
- misanthropy
- nefariously
- palindromes
- personality
- playgrounds
- playwrights
- precautions
- predictably
- Republicans
- semordnilap
- speculation
- stenography
- subordinate
- Switzerland
- trampolines
- undesirably
- vouchsafing
- workmanship
12 letters
- absorptively
- ambidextrous
- bankruptcies
- configurated
- considerably
- demonstrably
- exclusionary
- exculpations
- exhaustingly
- flowcharting
- gunpowderish
- housewarming
- hypnotizable
- lexicography
- malnourished
- metalworking
- misconjugate
- overhaulings
- packinghouse
- questionably
- recognizably or recognisably
- thunderclaps
- unforgivable
- unforgivably
- unprofitable
- unprofitably
- upholstering
13 letters
- consumptively
- documentarily
- flamethrowing
- fracedinously
- hypnotizables
- metalworkings
- misconjugated
- multi-branched
- troublemaking
- subordinately
- unpredictably
- unproblematic
- unscreamingly
- unsympathized
14 letters
- ambidextrously
- dermatoglyphic
- undiscoverably
15 letters
- dermatoglyphics
- hydropneumatics
- misconjugatedly
- uncopyrightable
16 letters
- uncopyrightables
So the search continues but trying to find a non-isogram that resolves to 15 letters without the use of an A seems a trifle…unlikely.
Tagged: 4 square, Isograms, kryptos, Matrices
