That was too good to resist, so I wrote a similar script; I stuck with a list of 20,000 common words (using only words with at least six letters). In those, there were nearly 900 3-letter strings that appeared in just one word. Some of these were kind of easy, or too obscure, but I did like:

AKF, DHU, YSW, … well that’s all too easy to generate once you have the list, but fun anyway. I’ve put a file with all these three letter strings at http://mathfactor.uark.edu/downloads/threeLetter.txt and the strings + the words in which they appear at http://mathfactor.uark.edu/downloads/threeLetter2.txt

For kbe, I get blackberry

For sthm … spoiler: asthma

For hipe … spoiler: archipelago

Anyone want to try kbe?

eggplant

Since the show, I have found myself scanning words as I read them looking for unusual combinations; it is not as easy as one might think. The best I have is ‘sthm’.

Anyone else try this?

For “hmm” try ohmmeter, uhmmmm,

Thanks for doing the podcasts.
Kona