In my previous post, I provided some English number words that appear in Mike Keith's base-26 π-code representation of the real digits of π. This entry is about other words.
In 2000, I found the eight-letter armagnac at index 3095146. Now, with half a billion strung-together letters (one hundred times the "real estate") at my disposal, I expected to find many more eight-letter words and, hopefully, some larger ones as well. I used eight- and nine-letter words culled from Peter Norvig's Google word-count file made available in his recent English Letter Frequency Counts essay.
A search resulted in 35 eight-letter and 2 nine-letter hits. I dismissed gruening, schreber, brentano, and hillquit for being surnames only. (I kept mersenne because of its adjectival usefulness in mathematics.) I also excluded thoufand — an alternate, incorrect version of thousand resulting from the difficulty of distinguishing a long s from an f in old-English typography. That thoufand had 158819 mentions in Norvig's data set amply demonstrates his list's limitations (and questions his conclusions).
In the following, I have capitalized the words (including a German one) that I felt needed capitalization and added an accent on one of the three French words.
3095146 Armagnac
5204508 reformist
26460749 plastics
30620629 Batavian
49292523 raisonné
62288036 Altamont
68386037 handsome
95489940 freewill
119398927 obligate
122636295 derriere
144023162 tarragon
160285943 conveyer
186970055 lineages
194941942 symbolic
203750087 drawling
233706360 Brockway
238312955 homicide
244832756 coenzyme
248977229 offenses
290930240 friction
291953969 Judentum
308820127 engaging
317941229 outgrown
327954809 jamboree
378333440 bookings
428186515 noblesse
433412589 inertial
475910828 Mersenne
476984745 stigmatic
479595795 Vallarta
487934346 copyists
488079020 Assyrian
32 words: It's a start.
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