How to Letterbank by Adrian
Hoad-Reddick
Letterbanking is a word transformation whereby you take all
discrete letters in a word and use them to create new words (or
create the same word again, but that is boring). Duplicate letters
are omitted. For instance, take my name, A- D- R- I- A- N. The discrete
letters in my name are A D R I N (the duplicate 'A' has been omitted).
Now take the letter bank
of letters A D R I N and use these letters to create new words.
You MUST use each letter, so 'DIN' or 'RAID' are illegal. You may
use any given letter as often as you wish.
Here
is a list of words that can be letterbaked from 'ADRIAN' (some are
rather obscure.)
diandrian
anandria
aniridia
diandria
diarian
iridian
andirin
aridian
darrain
inradii
radian
andira
randir
drain
nadir
drain
dinar
Andri
Ardin
ranid
indra
The beauty of
letterbanking is that the number of letters in the source and target
words can vary. The minimum length of the resulting word(s) will
be the number of unique letters in the source word (anagrammed).
The smallest words above (and the most common!) are drain, nadir
and dinar, each of which is an anagram of 'A D R I N'. You can letterbank
to larger words, as SCORE (5) can be letterbanked to SORCERESSES
(11)!
Put letterbanking
to action in Hoadworks' games - Letterbank
and Word Origami
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