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Posted: **Tue Oct 11, 2016 11:54 am**

I guess that every five-letter word is no.

Posted: **Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:02 pm**

Yes: stop tens tins tons tops
No: nets nits opts pots spot

I guess that every five-letter word is no.

I shall formalize that as a guess that the rule is “words of any number of letters other than five”. I give “nets” as a counterexample, but note that I cannot produce a counterexample from the yes list. That is, your guess defines a superset of the actual rule.

Posted: **Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:09 pm**

I guess "any word that is not a palindrome".

Posted: **Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:15 pm**

I add “noon” to the yes list, and wave generally at the no list.

Posted: **Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:16 pm**

We already have anagram mattering with keep vs peek.

I guess the rule of all words less than 15 characters and then quietly glance at the no list.

Posted: **Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:33 pm**

Yes to 'countermaneuver' (15). And to save you some work:

Yes to 'simultaneousness' (16).

The intersection of the rule and my handy word list contains no longer words. However, reasonable constructions such as 'antisimultaneousness' (20) (I leave it to a physicist or *googles* possibly an engineer to explain what that word would actually mean) are longer and meet the rule.

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Yes:
aces
beep
bees
boon
boor
bore
dice
eons
keen
keep
knee
noon
rose
rosy
sear
seen
seer
sore
tans
bazaar
colour
eaters
keeper
orange
ranges
risque
unseen
softener
stranger
scavenger
bookkeeper
dictionary
rootlessness
countermaneuver
simultaneousness
antisimultaneousness

No:
pee
aced
ants
aunt
beef
bell
book
eeks
feet
gear
geek
gray
grey
iced
keel
offs
peek
peep
seek
snot
abbey
alien
aunts
bells
bleep
books
chaos
color
deign
forum
green
groom
iambs
keeps
kneel
lying
mails
offer
often
peach
peeks
range
scene
sixty
sores
sorry
three
which
witch
cookie
easter
eureka
lambda
listen
office
peeker
ranged
ranked
secret
silent
soften
softer
speech
unseal
alicorn
beeswax
belling
biscuit
bizarre
bulwark
canteen
defence
defense
keepers
oranges
peekers
secrete
softens
softest
strange
umpteen
witches
aardvark
alphabet
colonise
colonize
unseemly
witching
alphabets
softening
strangers
strangest
unbitwise
wildebeest
abecedarian
magnificent
parallelled
picturesque
abbreviating
alphabetical
broadcasters
deactivating
deactivation
heavyweights
microgrooves
populousness
secretkeeper
tautological
zoologically
alphabetically
parallellogram
transmogrification
antidisestablishmentarianism
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Posted: **Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:55 pm**

Everything we’ve seen is even length except one word of length 9. There are no words of length five or length less than four.

Words with composite length?

Words with length divisible by two or three?

Posted: **Tue Oct 11, 2016 3:12 pm**

DanielH wrote:Everything we’ve seen is even length except one word of length 9.

In the previous post I mentioned 'countermaneuver' (15).

DanielH wrote:Words with composite length?

Congratulations, you have found a superset of the actual rule. The no list continues to easily fulfill its purpose.

DanielH wrote:Words with length divisible by two or three?

I would like to decline to attempt to find or construct a word meeting the rule which is 25 characters long.

Posted: **Tue Oct 11, 2016 4:51 pm**

robe
room

Posted: **Tue Oct 11, 2016 5:08 pm**

Yes: room
No: robe

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