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From: jdd@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Words in Alphabetical Order
Message-ID: <1632@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 13:32:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  6 13:32:10 1983
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Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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Only 21 6-letter words with their letters in alphabetical order, eh?
Looking in Webster's Fifth, I find 50:

abbess	afflux	bijoux	chitty	efflux
abdest	agnosy	billot	choosy	effort
accent	almost	billow	choppy	egghot
accept	beefin	biopsy	clotty	ellops
access	befist	blotty	dehors	floppy
accloy	behint	chillo	dehort	flossy
accost	behoot	chilly	Deimos	ghosty
achill	beknow	chinny	deinos	glossy
acknow	bellow	chintz	dikkop	knoppy
adipsy	bhikku	chippy	dimpsy	knotty

I even find six 7-letter ones:

Adelops
alloquy
beefily
begorry
billowy
egilops

Cheers,
John ("It Pays To Increase Your Word Power") DeTreville
Bell Labs, Murray Hill