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mkenuk

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« on: June 04, 2021, 03:44:02 PM »
Interesting statistic from yesterday's 7-by many

ballistics - one of the four common seed-words managed only 37 hits.
ballistic, on the other hand, without the s, managed 300.

There is a list of 'permitted 's' words' which Alan produced some time ago; obviously at that time 10-letter words such as ballistics were not playable in any Chi-game, and consequently were not included on the 'list of 127' -



Chihuahua currently accepts 127 words that can be formed by adding S to the end of another acceptable word. This list excludes words ending in SS, like assess.

In only 16 of these cases are both "singular" and "plural" words classed as common:


blues, briefs, clothes, craps, goods, maths, mores, outskirts, pants, passes, shingles, shorts, theirs, theses, tongs, yours

In most cases, the shorter word is rare and the one with the S at the end is common:


always, asses, baldies, basses, billies, caddies, candies, champers, chaos, conches, cosies, couches, cripes, crises, crosses, crudites, curries, doldrums, empresses, environs, fantasies, fesses, finis, fogies, galoshes, genus, glutes, grannies, heroes, honkies, hooves, huskies, hustings, jeans, knickers, knives, kudos, lefties, lenses, loaves, masses, matins, matrices, measles, menses, methinks, midwives, mommies, monies, musses, nannies, nappies, nixes, obsequies, overseas, pampas, panties, patties, penis, pinnies, pliers, plies, prognoses, relies, sasses, sheaves, sideburns, sideways, species, spies, sties, tapas, tatters, teddies, testes, tries, upstairs, vespers, wharves, wolves






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Re: ballistic
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2021, 04:38:07 PM »
I was one of the 310 players who didn't play ballistics. I simply didn't think of it, but if I had thought of it, would I have assumed it would be ruled out because ballistic is playable? I'm not sure. (But I probably would have tried it anyway.) Undoubtedly it's correct to allow both words, because ballistic is not a noun - it's an adjective. But possibly ballistics should be classed as rare.

When I expanded the word list to include ten-letter words there were a number of words like this: acrobatics, ergonomics, etc.

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Re: ballistic
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2021, 05:02:14 PM »
I realise that MATHEMATICS isn't a possible word (more than ten letters, more than seven different letters), but if it were possible I imagine it would be permissible.

Ballistics is a field of engineering in the same way that mathematics is a field of science. I think it should remain common.

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Re: ballistic
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2021, 12:13:30 PM »
Even though i failed to find or even considered playing Ballistics. i do tend to agree with Rose.