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graypeggyesterday at 10:03 PM3 repliesview on HN

> …it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED.

I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha


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Sparkle-sanyesterday at 10:08 PM

Scrabble only comes with one Z, so some of those are gonna have be sideways N's.

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conradludgateyesterday at 10:12 PM

With one Z tile and 2 blanks...

darth_aardvarkyesterday at 10:26 PM

In addition to the Z's everyone else pointed out, Scrabble boards are 15 tiles across. This is 16 letters. You fool. You utter gumdrop.

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