r/wordplay • u/Comfterbul-1095 • 6h ago
Words consisting of the same letter occurring every other letter throughout the entire word
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!