Posted 1 Year, 2 Months ago Transhumanist Senior Boarder Posts: 70   I have a question/puzzle that someone will probably know in this group. What is the longest word that if it was written in a circular fashion would spell a word no matter where you started and were you stopped? A very simple example: EAT The administrator has disabled public write access. Posted 1 Year, 2 Months ago mintgus Senior Boarder Posts: 76   Surprisingly, your simple example seems to be the longest one using the Linux /usr/dict/words list. Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 The administrator has disabled public write access. Posted 1 Year, 2 Months ago saintthomas Expert Boarder Posts: 82   If you allow (or restrict yourself to) proper names, then you could have for example TUTU (as in Desmond Tutu) and UTUT (as in chess GM Utut Adianto). The administrator has disabled public write access.