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A blanagram (from ''blank''+''anagram'') is a word which is an anagram of another but for the substitution of a single letter. The term has its origin in competitive Scrabble, where a blank tile on a player's rack may be used to form any of several possible words in conjunction with the player's other tiles. ==Examples of blanagrams== *On the list of currently acceptable words for club and tournament Scrabble in North America (OWL2), the anagram pair EPICOTYL/LIPOCYTE has 18 blanagrams: * *Replacing C with L or N yields POLITELY or LINOTYPE; * *Replacing I with A or F yields CALOTYPE or COPYLEFT; * *Replacing L with C or D yields ECOTYPIC or COPYEDIT; * *Replacing O with H or I yields PHYLETIC or PYELITIC; * *Replacing P with R or V yields CRYOLITE or VELOCITY; * *Replacing T with N yields POLYENIC; * *Replacing Y with A, H, N, R, or U yields POETICAL, CHIPOTLE/HELICOPT, LEPTONIC, LEPROTIC/PETROLIC, or POULTICE. :Note that in this case no blanagram is available by replacing the E, so EPICOTYL and LIPOCYTE are the only eight-letter words that can be formed from the Scrabble tiles CILOPTY plus a blank. *The eight-letter word ANGRIEST (and anagrams such as GANTRIES and INGRATES) has over 100 blanagrams that are common words, and many more that are more obscure. *The word FILMCARD has only one acceptable blanagram: FLUIDRAM. (However, some other dictionaries list other possibilities, such as FRICADEL〔http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?lextype=3&search=fricadel〕 and FILECARD〔http://www.thefreedictionary.com/filecard〕). *Turkish is a blanagram of Kurdish. *Pangram, Tangram and Managua are blanagrams of the word anagram. Many seven- and eight-letter words, such as KILOVOLT and QUIXOTIC, have no acceptable blanagrams; such words typically contain a subset of the letters JKQVWXZ. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blanagram」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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