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This article is from the Puzzles FAQ, by Chris Cole chris@questrel.questrel.com and Matthew Daly mwdaly@pobox.com with numerous contributions by others.
281 language/english/spelling/most.p
What word has the most variant spellings?
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catercorner
There's eight spellings in Webster's Third.
catercorner
cater-cornered
catacorner
cata-cornered
catty-corner
catty-cornered
kitty-corner
kitty-cornered
If you look in Random House, you will find one more which doesn't appear
in Web3, but it only differs by a hyphen:
cater-corner
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