hapax legomenon

— a word occurring only once in the written body of a given language.

This site uses a script to generate aleatoric wordlike objects, each syllable of which being ostensibly consistent with orthographic conventions from somewhere. For example, you won’t see strings of three identical vowels, unspeakable clusters like ktdcp, or pairings like çe (though there’s probably an obscure Czech dialect that uses all three).

The hapax legomenon program has no dictionary, no database, no state. It by no means ensures uniqueness, and is quite capable of blithely generating existing words (yes, including naughty ones) in whatever roman-alphabet language.

The hapax legomenon site is a useless object.

Have a nice pusamoax,

Leo Daedalus

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The hapax legomenon page was created in 2003. All hapax legomena here generated are free for use by all persons for friendly purposes.