Inspired by my last puzzle thread, lets play the google game.
The winner is the person who finds a common english word which has the least amounts of google hits. the following rules apply.
1) It must be common i.e. be found in a smallish dictionary
2) It must be spelt correctly (no slang stuff)
3) It has to have 5 or more letters
I'll start the bidding with the word
Kilns = 695,000 hits
Originally posted by AerodynamikIts not in my dictionary but I'll allow it as I have heard of it, but I can beat it with
I would say this is common in that its widely known as a very long word. Although it probably wouldn't be found in a mini dictionary (you can be the judge on that) So, probably because this word is quite hard to spell...
Antidisestablishmentarianism gave me only 28,100 hits.
Mummify = 24,400
Come on guys, normal words.... Let's not have any galavanting around out there....;-)
Interesting, when I run google on "galavant" now, I only get 837 hits. Why would it change that dramatically in a few hours? Hmmmm.....
I ran the rest of the words previously posted, just for fun. Here's my comparison of the two google runs. Any ideas as to why they change?
kilns - 695,000 697,000
copse - 202,000 202,000
Anti.... - 28,100 25,500
mummify - 24,400 24,500
galavant - 5290 837
circumloquatious - 22 22
adnascentia - 3 5
Nongangrenous - 128 85
phrontistes - 154 155
ravanastron - 166 159