{"id":3740,"date":"2025-06-28T14:41:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T09:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/?p=3740"},"modified":"2025-06-28T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T09:12:53","slug":"playing-word-games-with-llm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/28\/playing-word-games-with-llm\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Word Games with LLM"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t think my vocabulary is bad, but I love learning new English words. Especially weird ones! One book that is always on my desk is \u201cMore Weird and Wonderful Words\u201d<\/strong><\/em> by McKeon<\/strong><\/em>. This is my goto book when I feel bored. More recently, I have switched to interacting with Claude<\/strong><\/em> and ChatGPT<\/strong><\/em> for learning new words and their usage.<\/p>\n

In this article, I am sharing some of my recent interactions.<\/p>\n

I started off by asking for the meaning of an uncommon word from the above book:<\/p>\n

\"Word<\/a>
Word Meaning<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nice!<\/p>\n

Next question is about the longest word in English. Interestingly, the answer is not straightforward. Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0gives some interesting perpectives on this. Anyway, this is what Claude<\/strong><\/em> told me:<\/p>\n

\"Longest<\/a>
Longest Word<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can see that this word is the 4th entry in Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em> table.<\/p>\n

Let us see if Claude<\/strong><\/em> knows about \u201cheterograms\u201d<\/strong><\/em>. According to Wiktionary<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, a heterogram is a word or phrase in which no letter occurs more than once.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the interaction:<\/p>\n

\"Heterogram\"<\/a>
Heterogram<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next question is on \u201cChronograms\u201d<\/strong><\/em>. According to Dictionary.com<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, a chronogram is \u201can inscription in which certain Roman numeral letters express a date or epoch on being added together by their values.\u201d<\/em> Quite interesting!<\/p>\n

Here is the interaction with ChatGPT<\/strong><\/em> this time:<\/p>\n

\"Chronogram<\/a>
Chronogram Example<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Note the Roman<\/strong><\/em> numerals that are in upper case in the given text.<\/p>\n

Have you heard of \u201cWord ladder\u201d<\/strong><\/em>? In this word game, we are given two words, one being the starting word and the other the ending word. We begin with the starting word, and by just changing one letter at a time, we find a series of valid words that result in the ending word. I gave a simplified version of this to ChatGPT<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"Word<\/a>
Word Ladder<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well done! Somewhat disappointed (but not surprised) that the LLM was giving correct answers to all my questions, I thought hard and asked this question:<\/p>\n

\"Finding<\/a>
Finding Word from Meaning<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can see from the first response that the system was struggling to get the answer. When I gave the correct answer, it was able to validate it. That made my day!<\/span><\/p>\n

Playing games like this is a refreshing experience, if you know what I mean! Hope you too try something like this!<\/p>\n

Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t think my vocabulary is bad, but I love learning new English words. Especially weird ones! One book that is always on my desk is \u201cMore Weird and Wonderful Words\u201d by McKeon. This is my goto book when I feel bored. More recently, I have switched to interacting with Claude and ChatGPT for learning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[427],"tags":[428,410],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-games","tag-word-game","tag-word-puzzle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9OLnF-Yk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":863,"url":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/11\/kangaroo-words\/","url_meta":{"origin":3740,"position":0},"title":"Kangaroo Words","author":"admin","date":"March 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"According to Wikipedia, \"A kangaroo word is a word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning. 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