Vicinal (logology)

For other uses, see Vicinal (disambiguation).

A vicinal is a logological term for a word where all its letters have "alphabetic neighbors". For instance, if a word has an "O" in it, to be a vicinal it must also have an "N" and/or a "P". If none of the letters have alphabetic neighbors, it is known as a nonvicinal.

Some vicinals:

  • Blacksmith
  • Documents
  • Done
  • Fights
  • High
  • On
  • Sport
  • This

Some nonvicinals:

  • As
  • In
  • Intelligibility
  • Lacqueying
  • Mississippi
  • Mortgage
  • The

Some words that are neither:

  • About
  • Almanac
  • Dictionary
  • Times
  • Wisconsin

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