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The longest word you can type on the first row of a QWERTY keyboard
Author : nafnlj
Score : 19 points
Date : 2023-08-24 21:29 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| bitwize wrote:
| Germans would type on a QWERTZ keyboard (Z and Y are swapped).
| This may theoretically considerably open up the space of possible
| top-row-only German words, as Z is very common in German
| (especially after T).
| DylanDmitri wrote:
| Related, is there a high quality plaintext dictionary file for
| running similar searches? I've spent several hours but couldn't
| find one that's both comprehensive and accurate.
| koolba wrote:
| Dictionary or word list?
|
| /usr/share/dict/words is always destination zero for words.
| mminer237 wrote:
| https://github.com/dwyl/english-words/blob/master/words_alph...
| aidenn0 wrote:
| What are your rules for what counts as a "word"? If you go with
| the basic scrabble rules (i.e. nothing that would be
| capitalized or punctuated) then YAWL[1] is pretty good, with
| the downside being the most recent version I know of is from
| 2008.
|
| FYI, rupturewort is the sole 11-letter word answer to TFA in
| YAWL; found using: grep '^[qwertyuiop]*$'
| word.list |while read -r line; do echo "${#line} ${line}"; done
| |sort -n | tail
|
| 1: https://github.com/elasticdog/yawl
| praash wrote:
| Some common Linux distributions have packages that provide word
| list files to /usr/share/dict/ in several languages. It's
| likely for English files to be preinstalled. I've had a plenty
| of fun practising regex and pipes with these word lists!
| suzzer99 wrote:
| The Welsh would love this game. Trywytypryrwy
| aidenn0 wrote:
| One does wonder who dared Liam Dutton to do this:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM
| eitally wrote:
| A number of years ago I solved a minor but repetitive QoL problem
| I had, and created a password I could type with just my left
| hand. It started as 8 characters, but I now have variants with as
| many as 15 characters. Not a word, or even words strung together,
| but it is so nice being able to just type it with one hand.
| bnjmn wrote:
| On any macOS computer (or replace /usr/share/dict/words with your
| own word list): grep '^[qwertyuiop]*$'
| /usr/share/dict/words | \ awk '{ print length(), $0 }' | \
| sort -n
| travisgriggs wrote:
| Nice.
|
| Middle/Second row result is
|
| 8 flagfall "Flagfall, or flag fall, is a common Australian
| expression for a fixed start fee, especially in the taxi,
| haulage, railway, and toll road industries."
|
| 8 galagala "A name in the Philippine Islands of Dammara
| Philippinensis, a coniferous tree yielding dammar-resin."
|
| Lower/Third Row: - None
|
| There are no vowels on the bottom row. So no words. I've been
| typing at ~ 50wpm for 30 years, and I don't think I'd ever
| actually consciously recognized this fact about the bottom row.
|
| (standard US keyboard layout)
| juujian wrote:
| Works for Ubuntu, too. My Colemak self can only get fluffy (6)
| from the front row, that's the longest word. Middle row really
| shines though, I can get hardheartedness (15) or assassinations
| (14).
| tiltowait wrote:
| Interesting that your dictionary doesn't have
| "tenderheartedness", which is two letters longer.
| [deleted]
| seabass-labrax wrote:
| Gulp, fluffy puppy pug! Yup. Fly, ugly pup, fly.
|
| I note that hardheartedness and hotheadedness threaten the
| darnedest nonstandard assassinations. Such sordidness!
| SethTro wrote:
| For Dvorak with a little assist from unix
|
| First row
|
| $ awk '/^[,.pyfgcrl] _$ / { print length(), $0 }'
| /usr/share/dict/words | sort -nr | head
|
| 3 pry / ply / fry / cry
|
| Second row
|
| $ awk '/^[aoeuidhtns]_$/ { print length(), $0 }'
| /usr/share/dict/words | sort -nr | head
|
| 15 tendentiousness
|
| 14 assassinations
|
| 13 instantaneous
|
| 13 insidiousness
|
| Third row
|
| $ awk '/^[;qjkxbmwvz]*$/ { print length(), $0 }'
| /usr/share/dict/words | sort -nr | head
|
| 4 xxxv
|
| 3 xxx
|
| 3 xxv
|
| 2 xx
| Nekhrimah wrote:
| Not sure about that third row, the "A" is in the second row.
| SethTro wrote:
| Awkward, now the third now doesn't return anything
|
| $ awk '/^[;qjkxbmwvz]*$/ { print length(), $0 }'
| /usr/share/dict/words | sort -nr | head 4 xxxv 3 xxx 3 xxv 2
| xx 2 xv
| Nekhrimah wrote:
| With those letters, not surprised!
| kragen wrote:
| for this kind of thing, aside from of course
| /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/share/dict/spanish, i commonly use
| a word list sorted by occurrences in the british national corpus
| which i keep at http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/wordlist
|
| this allows you to, among other things, tune the
| comprehensiveness/accuracy tradeoff to your liking for a
| particular task by cutting the list off at a given point
|
| probably i should download the google 1-grams now that i have a
| bigger disk
|
| anyway $ grep ' [qwertyuiop]*$' ~/wordlist |
| perl -lane 'print length $F[1], " $F[1]"' | sort -n
|
| indeed suggests only 10 perpetuity 10
| proprietor 10 repertoire 10 typewriter
|
| possibly a more practical problem is, what are the most common
| words you can type entirely with the left hand while your other
| hand is on the mouse+; 'redraw' was a significant one with early
| versions of autocad $ grep '
| [qwertasdfgzxcvb]*$' ~/wordlist | head 2150885 a
| 923975 was 664780 be 478178 at 470949 are
|
| uh that's somewhat boring $ grep '
| [qwertasdfgzxcvb]*$' ~/wordlist | perl -ane 'print "$F[1] " if
| length $F[1] > 6' | fmt | head greater started effects
| address average regarded created treated affected
| greatest streets readers afterwards referred database degrees
| dressed arrested attract decades attracted addressed
| stressed stewart awarded targets estates abstract
| assessed terrace reserve reverse barbara reserves careers
| defeated dragged grabbed creates greeted secrets bastard extract
| edwards detected deserve affects traders adverse retreat
| addresses rewards aggregate decrease scattered breasts
| referee databases deserted actress debates deserves
| reversed deserved defects reserved fastest rewarded
| steward battered erected deceased exaggerated cassette exceeded
| servers warfare extracts drawers stresses asserted
| reacted sweater regards stabbed
|
| that's a bit better. how about words you can type alternating the
| two hands, so you can type faster $ egrep ' [^q
| wertasdfgzxcvb]?([qwertasdfgzxcvb][^qwertasdfgzxcvb])*[qwertasdfg
| zxcvb]?$' ~/wordlist | perl -ane 'print "$F[1] " if length $F[1]
| > 6' | fmt | head -4 problem problems england chairman
| alright element ancient visible penalty quantity visitor
| signals amendment claudia bicycle authentic antibody
| malaysia naughty dickens entitlement antique paisley rituals
| auditor endowment blanche chairmen siemens chaotic
| suspend uruguay mcleish
|
| it's a curious experience to touch-type a sequence of these words
| because after a while you notice that something is unusual. the
| one-handed words are a bit more conspicuous. try typing 'a better
| career award as edward created database facts after we agreed we
| stared at dear steve' into the comment box, it's super weird
|
| of course the bnc has some built-in biases which dramatically
| understate the frequency of certain words $
| grep fuck ~/wordlist 2568 fucking 1236 fuck
| 158 fucked 53 fucker 23 fucks 20 fuckers
| 13 motherfucker 5 motherfuckers 5 fuckin
|
| 'ngl' appears but only 5 times. 'yeet' doesn't occur at all
|
| ______
|
| + mouse?
| ben0x539 wrote:
| I wonder how fast you could get at typing everything onehanded
| with some modifier key that mirrors the keyboard. Right hand is
| probably more useful there.
| mensetmanusman wrote:
| It is lollipop for those interested in the longest for the right
| hand.
| san-fran wrote:
| I don't know if it's true, but read that "stewardesses" is the
| longest for the left hand
| kragen wrote:
| polyphony and homophony are both one letter longer
| noxvilleza wrote:
| I'm surprised that PROPRIETORY wasn't found in the Andrew
| Stephens 2009 search.
| elchief wrote:
| how about on the left side of the keyboard? STEWARDESSES is the
| longest i can think of
| sshine wrote:
| exaggerated stewardesse
| colecut wrote:
| extra points for only using 2 rows
| qup wrote:
| Considering the keys, maybe you should get extra points if
| you use all three instead.
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