"Perfect" words

M.T. Cranium

I don't know if this concept has ever been explored, or if it belongs in mathematics rather than some word-based forum.

There are a few "perfect" words where the letter-number code of the first two or three or even four or more letters adds up to the code of the last letter.

The best example (and a play on words perhaps) is SEX.

19 + 5 = 24

_S + E = X

So I tried to find a few others. These include slang expressions, and acronyms.

HOW ( 8 + 15 = 23)

MAN (13 + 1 = 14)

HAIR (8 +1 +9 = 18)

AIDES (1+9+4+5 = 19)

GALT (7+1+12 = 20)

CAD (3+1=4)

COR (3+15 = 18)

DOS (4 +15 = 19)

PDT (16 + 4 = 20) (Pacific Daylight Time is my current time zone)

AST (1 +19 = 20) (Atlantic Standard Time)

CSV (3 + 19 = 22)

HEM (8 + 5 = 13)

CHIT (3 +8 + 9 = 20)

GEL (7 + 5 = 12)

WAX (23 + 1 = 24)

KIT ( 11 + 9 = 20)

MER (13 + 5 = 18) (French for sea)

JOY ( 10 + 15 = 25)

JACKY (10 + 1 + 3 + 11 = 25)

ALLY (1 + 12 + 12 = 25)

TAU (20 + 1= 21)

CLAP ( 3 + 12 + 1 = 16)


There are no doubt many others. I wonder if there are longer examples than I found above?

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They seem hard to find since vowels like o and u and common letters such as t, n, and s occur in the second half of the alphabet.

M.T. Cranium

DRAW

FRAY

GOV

LAICY

then there would be backwards perfect words

YET

WIN

CAB

WEND

SAND

PIG

SEAM

YEAS

SAME

TARA

LEG

REAL

RIDE

Allinall

BADGES

Rikand

ZEBRA

(backwords perfect)

M.T. Cranium

wick

sod

hag

baa

mica

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