More Balanced Word Pairs

Authors

Rex Gooch

Abstract

Darryl Francis presented a neat idea in "Balanced Word Pairs" in the November 2004 Word Ways. I do, however, prefer a name like "complementary word pairs" because the corresponding letters in each word are the 27s-complement of each other. i do not see how the word "balanced" applies, as it does with balanced words. Darryl found just one example of length 6; I found another 150 of this length (mostly by using place names). I also found nine of length 7 (ignoring words consisting of strings of up to 23 As). The following selection of length 6 includes cases where both words are to be found in a dictionary or similar reference, or where one word at least is familiar.

Recommended Citation

Gooch, Rex (2005) "More Balanced Word Pairs," Word Ways: Vol. 38 : Iss. 1 , Article 9.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol38/iss1/9