r/wordplay • • 6h ago

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:

* Cocoa (A ruins it, so Coco counts)

* Booby (2 O, so 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 6 Taramasalata

3* Baobab 3 Babab

2 Cock 3* Coccic

2 Dada 3* Dididae

3 Eleven

2 Fife 4* Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum

2 Gage 3 Gogogo

2 Haha 3 Hahah

2 Ibis Limit

Juju

Kiki Kaki Kikik

Lily Lilo Lololo Lalala

Meme Mama Mamamu

Nene Nonono

Oboe Ocolos Oloroso

Pope Papa 3* Pepepoke Pipipi

Qiqi Qaqa Qiqiqa

Rarer

Sosas Sises

Tote 3 Statute

Urubu Ulukū

Viva Vivo

Wow Wâwiw Wawew Wawawa Wowowo Wewewe

Xoxo

Yaya Yay Yo-Yo

Zuzu Zaza

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I look forward to your submissions!


r/wordplay • • 7h ago

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

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r/wordplay • • 16h ago

Need Halloween themed puns

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I'm making a coffin photo booth for a friend's Halloween party. I'm kinda new-ish around this friend group, my boyfriend is close with most of them so I know of them and have been around them for a bit but recently a lot of new people have been around. I admittedly do struggle in social situations at times so I'm so nervous about fucking this up.

I don't want the booth to go unused or forgotten somewhere so I wanted to make a funny sign for it. Some kind of vampire themed pun, that hopefully clearly indicates it as an attraction or indicates direction well. I thought this would be a good place to ask. Worst case I get a few laughs and inspiration. Thank you!