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"They are all good in that they help to use up the tricky y." doesn't sound like it should be present in an encyclopedia. It sounds unprofessional and brings the quality of the article down. 24.114.252.245 (talk) 06:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where can I find a list for 8-lettered isograms? 110.55.217.117 (talk) 06:31, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are so many 8-letter isograms that making a list would be impractical. There are thousands of 9-letter isograms, and it would be of little to no use to list all of the 8-letter ones. Is there any particular application that you have in mind for such a list? Mooseandbruce1 (talk) 23:06, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be correct to put "motherfucking" under the 13 letter list? (70.44.204.121 (talk) 16:08, 5 July 2015 (UTC))[reply]

Motherfuckingly is listed on Wiktionary.org Sigmund 2015 (talk) 02:51, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Some time ago, I wrote an article on isogramic placenames for Word Ways. Some time thereafter, someone suggested to me that a better word for the phenomenon would be heterogram. I agreed, but couldn't retroactively change my article (disadvantage of deadtree publishing). I may convert that article to a Wikilist sometime. Anyway, would it be a good idea to change the title of this page Heterogram? Dtilque (talk) 00:38, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notability[edit]

With only two citations - one a dead link and another that never uses the term "isogram", the notability of this article is in dispute. HenryCrun15 (talk) 20:07, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There are two books cited in the text. There should be citations added for those. I suspect the lack of citations is due to how old this article is, rather than lack of notability. In the early days of Wikipedia, citations were much less common. Dtilque (talk) 20:36, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The article doesn't mention this, but I believe long isograms were used in at least one 19th century method of encryption. They're also used in some kinds of puzzles and magicians' tricks. The word isogram would not be used in discussions of those, but the property of a long word with no repeating letters is critical to them. Dtilque (talk) 21:02, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, the article does mention the use in modern day ciphers. That should make the concept notable all by itself. The word isogram for this phenomenon is not well known, so not encountering it in references is understandable. But I can't think of a more common term for them. Heterogram is equally obscure. Dtilque (talk) 21:23, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - Hi Dtilque, you are right that books were mentioned in the text. They weren't presented as citations before - I have added formal citations for them now.
  - Do those books talk about the use of isograms in ciphers? I don't have access to either book right now.HenryCrun15 (talk) 23:18, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    - Excellent job on adding the citations. As far as them referencing ciphers, I don't think they do. My copies of those books are packed away and I'd have to dig them out to be sure. But definitely not the 19th century encryption; I heard about that in a news story a year or so ago.