How many words can you make from the word 'potatoes'?

[supermousie]

So, whoever gets the most words wins an ectoplasmic cookie

Rules:
Plurals are fine
You may only use one letter once
Single letter stuff doesn't count so 'a' is ruled out
Has to be in English
Proper nouns are acceptable!

I got 24: as, ape, apes, ate, eat, east, pat, pats, pea, peas, past, peat, pesto, potato, sap, saps, spat, spot, tape, step, test, toast, teapot, and teapots.

[virus003]

Re: How many words can you make from the word 'potatoes'?

you forgot eats

that makes 25

waz gud son

[Izzy]

Re: How many words can you make from the word 'potatoes'?

set, toe, toes, pot, post, oats, top, tops, tea.

Thats my contribution.

[leonid]

Re: How many words can you make from the word 'potatoes'?

ae, ape, apes, apse, apt, aptest, as, asp, at, ate, ates, atop, east, eat, eats, epos, es, estop, et, eta, etas, oast, oat, oats, oe, oes, oops, oot, oots, op, ope, opes, ops, opt, opts, os, ose, otto, ottos, pa, pas, pase, paseo, past, paste, pat, pate, pates, pats, pe, pea, peas, peat, peats, pes, peso, pest, pesto, pet, pets, petto, poet, poets, pose, post, pot, potato, potatoes, pots, potto, pottos, psoae, sae, sap, sat, sate, sea, seat, sept, septa, set, seta, sett, so, soap, soot, sop, sot, spa, spae, spat, spate, spot, stat, state, step, stet, stoa, stoae, stoat, stoop, stop, stope, stopt, ta, tae, tao, taos, tap, tape, tapes, taps, tas, taste, tat, tate, tates, tats, tea, teapot, teapots, teas, teat, teats, tepa, tepas, test, testa, tet, tets, to, toast, toe, toea, toes, too, toot, toots, top, tope, topes, topos, tops, tost, tot, tote, totes, tots,

[Izzy]

Re: How many words can you make from the word 'potatoes'?

Obviously cheated, Game over. =(

Unless you wrote a program to generate all combinations and check against a dictionary. If that's the case then good job.

[leonid]

Re: How many words can you make from the word 'potatoes'?

Obviously cheated, Game over. =(

Unless you wrote a program to generate all combinations and check against a dictionary. If that's the case then good job.

I wrote this program

[flashpantss]

Re: How many words can you make from the word 'potatoes'?

as, ape, apes, ate, eat, eats, east, pat, pats, pea, peas, past, peat, pesto, potato, sap, saps, spat, spot, tape, step, test, toast, teapot, teapots.

[Izzy]

Re: How many words can you make from the word 'potatoes'?

I wrote this program

Are you being serious? That would take at least 45 minutes to think through.

[potter_rocks_out_loud]

Re: How many words can you make from the word 'potatoes'?

poet, poets, stop, toast, idk.. maybe more


Edit.: efffff uuuuu leonid.. >.>

[leonid]

Re: How many words can you make from the word 'potatoes'?

Are you being serious? That would take at least 45 minutes to think through.

I can speak in Ruby

open("dictionary.txt").read.scan(/^[potatoes]{1,8}$/){|i|print i,', ' if [['p',1],['o',2],['t',2],['a',1],['e',1],['s',1]].all?{|a,b|i.count(a)<=b}}

[HammyMcSquirrel]

Re: How many words can you make from the word 'potatoes'?

Eh... Not much of a game. Try thinking of something more unique.