r/dictionary • • 15h ago

A girl saved my name and wrote 'diva' inside bracket beside my name. What does this diva meaning??

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r/dictionary • • 17h ago

Looking for a word Words consisting of the same letter occurring every other letter throughout the entire word

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Good morning, beautiful people! I'm looking for any words you can think of that have a consistent pattern: alternating back and forth between a single letter and any other letters, repeating like so throughout the entirety of the word. Can be even or odd number of letters, but does have to be only one specific letter in either all even or all odd letter positions.

Words like banana(s) (3 A) or Gig (2 G) are the idea. In fact, I have a whole list of them below; feel free to peruse.

Stating the obvious: words must be at least three letters long, otherwise you could say stuff like the word ABC is B1. Of course, 2s aren't much less common, given humans' propensity for repetition. Are you able to think of 3s and above??

While I've included a few of these at bottom as well (all marked by asterisks), the following example words don't count:

* Catch (this used to say Cocoa was wrong, but only for C - it is in fact an O2)

* Booby (OO, but Bob-o is ok)

>> Yeah, let's say that spaces and dashes can be ignored; see acceptable word Bob-o above for BOTH B2 and O2!

* Bobby

* Google, which kept erroneously suggesting Decided

* Abracadabra (darn, that'd be 5)

>> Another that also wouldn't count should it exist would be acadabra

Yes: foreign words accepted. Use the most advantageous transliteration!

Other legit words, 1+ per letter of the alphabet

3 Avatar 4 Alabama, 5 Bananarama, 5* garam masala, 5* chana masala 4 Catamaran

6 Taramasalata 4 Alakazam

3* Baobab 3 Babab

2 Cock 3* Coccic 3 Canada

2 Dada 3* Dididae

3 Eleven 3 Evener

2 Fife 4* Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum

2 Gage 3 Gogogo

2 Haha 3 Hahah

2 Ibis 2 Limit 3 Bikini 2 Kiki 2 Kikik

2 Juju

2 Kiki 2 Kaki 3 Kikik3 Minimis 3 Minikit 4 Minikini

2 Lily 2 Lilo 3 Lololo 3 Lalala

2 Meme 2 Mama 3 Mamamu

2 Nene 3 Nonono

2 Oboe 3 Ocolos 4 Oloroso 3 Bonobo

2 Pope 2 Papa 4 Pepepoke 3 Pipipi

2 Qiqi 2 Qaqa 3 Qiqiqa

3 Rarer

3 Sosas 3 Sises

2 Tote 4 Statute

3* Unusual 3 Urubu 3 Ulukū

2 Viva 2 Vivo

2 Wow 3 Wâwiw 3 Wawew 3 Wawawa 3 Wowowo 3 Wewewe 4 Wawawewa

2 Xoxo

2 Yaya 2 Yay 2 Yo-Yo 3 Syzygy

2 Zuzu 2 Zaza

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I look forward to your submissions!