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Subject: Consecutive-letter words
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Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 23:53:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 23 23:53:17 1983
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These are in /usr/dict/words and have 4 consecutive letters in sequence.
I count wraparounds z->a.

	analyzable
	hydrolyzable
	overstuff
	understudy

These are in Webster's Second Unabridged.  I took out close derivatives.

	afterstudy
	analyzable
	cremnophobia
	dialyzable
	electrolyzable
	gymnopaedic
	gymnophiona
	gymnoplast
	hydrolyzable
	limnophile
	limnoplankton
	overstud
	overstudy
	overstuff
	plasmolyzable
	Semnopithecus
	somnopathy
	superstuff
	thamnophile
	understuff

I didn't find any with 5.  By the way, most problems of this type fall
easily to grep.  In this case there was no grep pattern obvious to me,
so I just used fgrep 'abcd bcde ...'