UNDERESTIMATIONS is the longest word reducible to one letter via anagram-drop steps
birchlse · x · 2026-10-17
Aaronson shares a word-game finding: UNDERESTIMATIONS is the longest word that can be reduced to a single letter by repeatedly anagramming and dropping one letter, forming a valid English word at every step. The chain runs through determinations, antimodernist, terminations, mentions, tennis, inset, ties, sit, it, and finally i.
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