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Cheating a bit, but I have a generic script to read a dictionary, and execute arbitrary regexes or code blocks against it. Since I already have the dictionary in a nice format, in a default location, the command line looks like this:
But of course, w is rather long and generic, and will take a number of regexes or a single code block. And this misses multiple words, if several are the same length. (I get "feedback" and "boldface" from my list, at length 8.) Interestingly, adding "g" gives only 1 word, and doesn't require sorting: "blackfigured":
ETA: Using the codeblock form:
(The output format is a bit different with codeblock, and must be sorted by field 3.) -QM In reply to Re: Find the shortest word in the English Language with: a b c d e f
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