word square

All 251 of the word squares are completely filled in.

A word square is a special type of acrostic.

Hidden in the word square are the names of more than 30 makes or models of cars.

The term Squaire is a portmanteau of the words square and air.

Double and triple word squares function in the same manner as standard Scrabble.

Commonly word squares are used as puzzles or as teaching aids for students.

No source or explanation is given for any of the "words", so this square does not meet the modern standards for legitimate word squares.

Recent research has quantified the degree of difficulty of constructing word squares.

Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest it was pronounced like the word square.

The rows and columns of any double word square can be transposed to form another valid square.

Word squares that form different words across and down are known as "double word squares".

A 2nd century "word square" has been discovered in Mamucium, the Roman settlement of Manchester.

Word rectangles are based on the same idea as double word squares, but the horizontal and vertical words are of a different length.

A word square was discovered in the 1970s that may be one of the earliest examples of Christianity in Britain.

If the "words" in a word square need not be true words, arbitrarily large squares of pronounceable combinations can be constructed.

Diagonal word squares are word squares in which the main diagonals are also words.

In this final part Viète defines some notations, including the first and second roots (in other words square and cube roots).

All the high-scoring quadruple premiums lie near the outside of the board, with the quadruple word squares at the four corners of the board.

Scattered around the board are bonus squares indicating extra point-earning opportunities, either premium letter squares or premium word squares.

The Sator Square is a famous word square in Latin; found in the ruins of Herculaneum and many other places, it likely predates the Christian era.

Smaller word squares, used for amusement, are expected to have simple solutions, especially if set as a task for children; but vocabulary in most eight-squares tests the knowledge of an educated adult.

Double word squares are somewhat more difficult to find than ordinary word squares, with the largest known fully legitimate English examples (dictionary words only) being of order 8.

A parallel is found in the famous Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas word square, an altered version of which is also found among Abramelin's squares.

Hence, it can be arranged into a word square that reads in four different ways: horizontally or vertically from either top left to bottom right or bottom right to top left.

There has been discussion by academics whether the "word square" is actually a Christian artefact, but if it is, it is one of the earliest examples of early Christianity in Britain.