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Heterographic
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Het`er`o`graph´ic
a.1.Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; - said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.


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One has 14 letters, the other has 10 and is also the second longest heterogram.
In the Nov 2007 Word Ways, Jeremiah and Karen Farrell explored the topic of orchard words, groups of heterograms (words with no repeated letters) which can be placed in straight lines on a two-dimensional planar surface.
Heterogram (no repeated letters in a word): unpublished Mary had a tiny lamb (its coat was white as snow), And to each site its owner went the lamb was sure to go.
 
 
 
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