Word Problem
 

:razz:
Here's one for English scholars;

There is a five letter word containing 5 other words within itself.
The letters that make up the word do not have to be re-arranged in any manner. Also each word is complete with no intervening letters.
What is the word and can you give any more?
Mally :coffee:

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RATES
contains
A
AT
ATE
RAT
RATE
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There are many words that would have more than 5 solutions. Here's words with six and seven subwords

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Six:
GORED: GO, OR, ORE, RED, GORE and RE is also a word (as in do, re, mi ..)

Seven:
HATED: A, HA, AT, ATE, HAT, HATE, TED

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[spoiler]MARCH

ma, mar, Marc, arc, arch[/spoiler] = 5, sort of

8 subwords
 

Here's an 8 solution and a 10 solution (out of a maximum of 11). Can anyone find an 11?

You have a 5-answer Uncwilly, if you use the vowel and remove the proper noun.

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pains

a
i
pa
ai
in
ain
pain
ains

Here's a ten solution:

MAXIS

A
I
MA
AX
XI
IS
MAX
XIS
MAXI
AXIS

XI is a Scrabble word. It's an Asian currency
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9-solution
 

[SPOILER]PITAS: I, A, PI, IT, TA,AS, PIT, TAS, PITA[/SPOILER]

Some of these are "Scrabble" words.

[QUOTE=grandpascorpion]You have a 5-answer Uncwilly, if you use the vowel and remove the proper noun.[/QUOTE]DUh. :redface:

sounds like a job for a Perl script.

I downloaded Python last night. Maybe with the right word list I can give it a whirl

[spoiler]There must be the intended answer.[/spoiler]
My dictionary has 6 other words in it.

> XI is a Scrabble word. It's an Asian currency

<tangent>
Xi is a letter of the Greek alphabet; Xu is the currency. Which is lucky, because xis is valid, but xus is no good.
</tangent>

You are correct sir :blush:

Here's one from an old book of mine:

[spoiler]sparkling -> sparking -> sparing -> spring - sprig -> prig -> pig -> pi -> i[/spoiler]