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Ah, I see someone has listened to "The Rest is Science" recently. Great podcast with Michael Stevens (VSauce) and Hannah Fry (the mathematician) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-5lQ2mzuw
> …it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED. I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha
Scrabble only comes with one Z, so some of those are gonna have be sideways N's.
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Scrabble only comes with one Z, so some of those are gonna have be sideways N's.
Also, a Scrabble board is 15 squares across and ZENZIZENZIZENZIC is 16 letters, so even with a Scrabble set with extra Zs or blanks you couldn't ever play it.
redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power
I supposed the 16th power would then be Zenzizenzizenzizenzic and so forth.
Someone watched “The rest is Science” I imagine!
Ah, I see someone has listened to "The Rest is Science" recently. Great podcast with Michael Stevens (VSauce) and Hannah Fry (the mathematician) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-5lQ2mzuw
Actually, its just one of the 170k English words we all totally already knew this morning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586
Waiting for an AI startup to create a phononym of this, in the same vein as Google did...
> …it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED. I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha
In addition to the Z's everyone else pointed out, Scrabble boards are 15 tiles across. This is 16 letters. You fool. You utter gumdrop.