Perfection's super-duper word-puzzle challange

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Okay here's how it goes, below are a series of little word/sentance competitions, you're goal is to beat the current record. The rules are simple: All words must be English words and not require capitalization, with the exception of the word "I". When you break or tie a record, post it and I will put it in this post. It will be fun!!!

Competition #1
find the word that has the most anagrams that use all letters
Curent record: 7 words
caster
reacts
caters
carets
crates
recast
traces
Held by: Pirate

Competition #2
Find the longest chain of words starting from a one letter word and adding a letter to the front or back to form a new word
Current record: 9
I
in
pin
ping
aping
raping
craping
scraping
scrapings
Held by: Yaniv

Competition #3
Find the shortest sentance that has every letter of the aphabet in it
Current record: 30
Jackdaw love my big sphinx of quartz.
Held by: Eastern Knight

Competition #4
Find the longest word using only letters from the musical scale (A,B,C,D,E,F & G)
Current record: 8
Cabbaged

Held by: h4ppy


More competitions may be added! Stay tuned, and good luck!
 
How about adding "Find the longest word using all the vowels excluding 'y'?"

Or "Find the word with the most number of consonants together."
E.g. Nighttime ('ghtt')
Exluding "y"

Those are my all-time favorites.
 
Competition #3:
Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.

This one is quite common when you download fonts.
 
Wait.... Delete the first s

Jackdaw love my big sphinx of quartz. ;)
 
Originally posted by Perfection

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Held by: Perfection
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A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. It's to bad the other guy beat me.
 
Oh yeah, I beat the musical letters thing too. I first realized that baggage tied cabbage but I needed to win not to tie. I checked on dictionary.com to see if either were verbs, "cabbage" was a verb, this means that the past tense, -d, would be enough to make me win. Here is the official definition from dictionary.com

\Cab"bage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p Cabbaged (-b[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cabbaging (-b[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [F. cabasser, fr. OF. cabas theft; cf. F. cabas basket, and OF. cabuser to cheat.] To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
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So cabbaged is the new record.
 
Give a word that is pronounced differently depending on whether the first letter is capitalized or not:

Polish and polish.
 
Originally posted by YNCS
Give a word that is pronounced differently depending on whether the first letter is capitalized or not:

Polish and polish.
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We're going for records here, there are hundreds of those wrods, I'm not going to list them all; I'll add new competitions as I see fit
 
i
in
pin
ping
aping (from the verb to ape)
raping
craping (from the verb to crape)
scraping
scrapings (the plural of scraping)

That totals to 9. Judges, I think we have a new record.
 
edit- ^darn it^

Well I found another beatable record. This was for the longest word one. The record is currently 7 letters. (stowing) I found one way to beat it. (and three that tied it) Here is what I found:

t (to a T, T iron, T Cart, T rail, T square, T bandage)
ut (The first note in Guido's musical scale, now usually superseded by do.)
but
butt
butte
butter
abutter
abutters
9 letters Yay!
 
Originally posted by Perfection
It doesn't, "T" is not a word. The only ones accepted are "I" and "a"
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Fine, but I think that "o" should count too. here is a definition from dictionary.com
O interj. Used before the name of or a pronoun referring to a person or thing being formally addressed: “How can I put it to you, O you who prepare to travel with important matters on your mind?” (Jo Durden-Smith).
Used to express surprise or strong emotion: “O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches” (Henry David Thoreau).
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Originally posted by h4ppy

Fine, but I think that "o" should count too. here is a definition from dictionary.com
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Yeah, I should probobly include that too.
 
Well, I can tie:

O
Ow
Owe
Towe
Stowe
Estowe
Bestowe
Bestower
Bestowers

Edit: Maybe not. I thought Estowe was a word, really.
 
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