Zyzygy

[Eamon]

Let
A = 1
B = 2
C = 3
.....
.....
.....
X = 24
Y = 25
Z = 26

A word scores according to the sum of its letters (see below).

Find the highest-scoring 6-letter word.

The best I can do is 'Zyzygy' = 26 + 24 + 26 + 24 + 7 + 24 = 131

Eamon
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[Eamon]

Of course, that should be 26 + 25 + 26 + 25 + 7 + 25 = 134

[Dave Smith]

I couldn't beat 131 (zyzygy) with a 6-letter word. How about the highest
scoring English word without the 6-letter limit? Here are a few candidates:

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 379
polyhydroxybutyrate 299
transubstantiationalist 298
untrustworthiness 283
extraterritoriality 269
Fuzzywuzzy 225

[Chippy²]

Dave Smith <Smit...@aogusma.org> scribed:

Found these over 300:

antidisestablishmentarianism 307
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane 348
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch 740
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis 560
polytetrafluoroethylene 313
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 379

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[Mike Keith]

>Find the highest-scoring 6-letter word.
>
>The best I can do is 'Zyzygy'

Maybe I'm just dense today, but since when is 'zyzygy' a word?

There is syzygy, of course, but I'm not aware of this particular string
appearing in any dictionary. Can you supply a reference? From what I can see
by a quick browse, the 451 Google hits for 'zyzygy' don't seem to legitimize
it, unless you count proper names (a publicly traded company, a band name,
etc.).

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[David K. Lewis]

Here are 2 that beat the imaginary word above :)

hydroxydesoxycorticosterone = 390
trinitrophenylmethylnitramine = 389

I suspect that a lot more chemical names will beat these...

Dave.

[Eamon]

"Mike Keith" <dom...@aol.comXYZXYZ> wrote in message
news:20030312153350...@mb-ce.aol.com

> >Find the highest-scoring 6-letter word.
> >
> >The best I can do is 'Zyzygy'
>
> Maybe I'm just dense today, but since when is 'zyzygy' a word?
>
> There is syzygy, of course, but I'm not aware of this particular string
> appearing in any dictionary. Can you supply a reference? From what I can see
> by a quick browse, the 451 Google hits for 'zyzygy' don't seem to legitimize
> it, unless you count proper names (a publicly traded company, a band name,
> etc.).

Oops, you are right. Syzygy (127), it is.

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[mUs1Ka]

"David K. Lewis" <dk...@cas.org> wrote in message
news:b4o5pv$49o$3...@srv38.cas.org...

> "Dave Smith" <Smit...@aogusma.org> writes:
> > I couldn't beat 131 (zyzygy) with a 6-letter word. How about the highest
> > scoring English word without the 6-letter limit? Here are a few
candidates:
> >
> > supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 379
> > polyhydroxybutyrate 299
> > transubstantiationalist 298
> > untrustworthiness 283
> > extraterritoriality 269
> > Fuzzywuzzy 225
>
> Here are 2 that beat the imaginary word above :)
>

It is not an imaginary word. It was not invented for the film.
m.

[mensanator]

"Chippy˛" <ne...@rutson.co.uk> wrote in message news:<b4o1mt$20tdkv$1...@ID-65599.news.dfncis.de>...

> Dave Smith <Smit...@aogusma.org> scribed:
> > I couldn't beat 131 (zyzygy) with a 6-letter word. How about the
> > highest scoring English word without the 6-letter limit? Here are a
> > few candidates:
> >
> > supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 379
> > polyhydroxybutyrate 299
> > transubstantiationalist 298
> > untrustworthiness 283
> > extraterritoriality 269
> > Fuzzywuzzy 225
>
> Found these over 300:
>
> antidisestablishmentarianism 307
> dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane 348
> Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch 740
> pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis 560
> polytetrafluoroethylene 313
> supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 379

21 oversuperstitiousness 328
21 quitranstulitsustinet 328
22 dacryocystosyringotomy 328
25 syngenesiotransplantation 326
19 subsultorysubsultus 326
31 pluscachangepluscestlamemechose 324
24 quothominestotsententiae 323
20 overpresumptuousness 321
23 butylatedhydroxytoluene 321
24 preobtrudingpreobtrusion 321
24 oxidativephosphorylation 320
24 pseudohypoparathyroidism 320
24 proximalconvolutedtubule 320

[Pete Lawrence]

On 12 Mar 2003 20:33:50 GMT, dom...@aol.comXYZXYZ (Mike Keith) wrote:

>>Find the highest-scoring 6-letter word.
>>
>>The best I can do is 'Zyzygy'
>
>Maybe I'm just dense today, but since when is 'zyzygy' a word?
>
>There is syzygy, of course, but I'm not aware of this particular string
>appearing in any dictionary. Can you supply a reference? From what I can see
>by a quick browse, the 451 Google hits for 'zyzygy' don't seem to legitimize
>it, unless you count proper names (a publicly traded company, a band name,
>etc.).

I may have misinterpreted what's going on here but "zyzygy" would seem
to be taking the Americanisation of the letter 's' to extremes! The
word I know and love is "syzygy"! It's an astronomical term
describing the alignment of three bodies in a straight line.

--
Pete

[Mike Keith]

>I may have misinterpreted what's going on here but "zyzygy" would seem
>to be taking the Americanisation of the letter 's' to extremes!

Oddly enough, though, one of the Google hits informed me that Zyzygy is a
publicly-traded company (ticker symbol ZYZ) on the *London* stock exchange!

As has been noted, the OP simply made a mistake - it should have been "syzygy".
But it's been interesting to see that the 'incorrect' version does exist as a
proper name in some contexts.