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Solve "What do these words have in common" type questions in Wolfram|Alpha?

Posted 9 years ago

Can Wolfram solve these kind of "What do these words have in common" questions? For example given the words "Escape, Stall, Cradle, Press, Balance"; can it tell me that "They are all Wrestling Moves"?

More examples...

Q: Alchemy, Spell, Owl, Backstage, Mermaid, Squib, Scar, Usher, Gnome,

A: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Q: Emergency, Soap, Bones, Drive

A: TV Shows

Q: Torch, Tubes, Flashlight

A: Spelunking

Q: Full, Green, Halfway, Light, Tree, Ware

A: They are all types of houses.

Q: Arduous, Knight, Dragon, Chest, Map

A: Quest

Q: Flower, Tern, Thirsty

A: Remove one letter from each word and they all spell a numeral.

Q: Common, Friend, Pastry, Portable, Remote, Varnish

A: If you take the "R" out, they still spell a word.

Q: Banana, Dresser, Grammar, Potato, Revive, Uneven, Assess

A: If you move the first letter to the end of the word, it forms the same word backwards. Banana = ananab, dresser = resserd, and so on.

Q: Boro Bow Fluff Know Pickup Scoff Shoe Taut

A: Rhyme with words that have different pronunciations of ough. Borough, bough, enough, dough, hiccough (hiccup), cough, through, bought.

Q: Bother, Favorite, Mistake, Pastry, Portable, Product

A: Each term contains two adjacent words if you allow the last letter of the first word to be the first letter of the last word. (i.e. bother = both + her; favorite = favor + rite; mistake = mist + take; pastry = past + try; portable = port + table; product = prod + duct)

POSTED BY: WordsIn Common

I don't think it can (yet). Using Mathematica or the Wolfram Cloud, you might be able to perform google-searches for each word, and then see what subject pops up the most...

POSTED BY: Sander Huisman
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