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What the shortest word in English that contains substrings "ei" and "ie"?

[80 byte] By [Hippolytea] at [2007-11-27 7:36:23]

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# 1

Do you want me to list you all the sentences in english as well?

Dalzhima at 2007-7-12 19:16:54 >

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# 2

> Do you want me to list you all the sentences in english as well?Yes, but to /dev/nul

Hippolytea at 2007-7-12 19:16:54 >

# 3

Then I'll have to charge you additional fees for this feature.

Dalzhima at 2007-7-12 19:16:54 >

# 4

> Then I'll have to charge you additional fees for this feature.You wouldn't be asking for a pieing, would you?woops...

Hippolytea at 2007-7-12 19:16:54 >

# 5

eieio?

bsampieria at 2007-7-12 19:16:54 >

# 6

> eieio?The Email, Internet, Electronic Information Officer? No acronyms allowed.

Hippolytea at 2007-7-12 19:16:54 >

# 7

DieDaFei!!!11eleventy11one1!

kevjavaa at 2007-7-12 19:16:54 >

# 8

[url= http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hieing]Hieing[/url] is the shortest one I could find.

hunter9000a at 2007-7-12 19:16:54 >

# 9

What about with non-overlapping substrings "ei" and "ie"?

Hippolytea at 2007-7-12 19:16:54 >

# 10

I think eightieth was the shortest I remember, but I wasn't looking specifically for those :)

hunter9000a at 2007-7-12 19:16:54 >

# 11

According to onelook, the words of the form *ei*ie* are: http://onelook.com/?w=*ei*ie*&scwo=1&sswo=1

And the shortest is the six letter:

heinie

although I'm giving a nod to the seven letter

deified

since it is also a palindrome.

As for the words of the form *ie*ei*: http://onelook.com/?w=*ie*ei*&scwo=1&sswo=1

The shortest is:

Biedermeier

Although that is a proper noun. Otherwise, the winner is

spiegeleisen

... a type of pig iron.

Now, back to Java...

Hippolytea at 2007-7-12 19:16:54 >

# 12

I think I just crashed the OED with my search. I'm getting Error 500 - "Internal Server Error" now.

DrClapa at 2007-7-12 19:16:54 >

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