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I'd skip the dictionary and scrape all of Wikipedia, then weigh words by frequency.
by Pxtl 10y ago
I'd skip the dictionary and scrape all of Wikipedia, then weigh words by frequency.
- bemmu 10y agoI tried finding anagrams from Wikipedia titles, didn't include the scoring yet, but just browsing the results I notice things such as: Hilda Davies <-> Sadia Dehlvi Hilton Young <-> Tony Holguin Hilary Corke <-> Karoly Reich I don't know who these people are, but this could be a way to uncover anagrammed pen names wholesale.
- mjd 10y agoThis is a great idea, thanks! By my method, the top scorer is ACEEEFFGHHIILLMMNNOORRSSSTUV (25 points), which is the pseudonym of 17th-century German writer Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. See if you can guess where he got his pseudonym. After this there are a large number of high scorers, some very interesting, some less so. I think my current favorite is “Atlantis Casino Resort Spa” / “Carter assassination plot” (18 points) but it might be “Sunrise celebration” / “lesbian intercourse” (16). The score file includes 1,657,148 (!) anagram pairs of which 26,296 have a score of 10 or higher and 475 have a score of 15 or higher.