These were selected from the 43,472 possible FIFA pairings by comparing their bigrams (sequences of pairs of letters) to the frequencies observed in Google Books N-grams dataset. The algorithm could probably be improved by weighting the middle pair greater (since that's the only degree of freedom), normalizing for letter frequency, increasing the analysis to trigrams or further, etc.
Code forthcoming.
| # some surprising real words | |
| singer | |
| finger | |
| finest | |
| panang | |
| banger | |
| bertha | |
| # word starts | |
| togeth | |
| someth | |
| # some almost words | |
| thaang | |
| thatjk | |
| ethegy | |
| tanger | |
| berger | |
| sinken | |
| sindom | |
| berest | |
| finken | |
| bahest | |
| thalby | |
| thasey | |
| chined | |
| gerban | |
| senger | |
| # some old-timey words and almost words | |
| sineth | |
| cometh | |
| codeth | |
| nameth | |
| coketh | |
| cubeth | |
| # a variety of other fun ones | |
| sintha | |
| pereth | |
| thasin | |
| eritha | |
| thavin | |
| thaven | |
| thaben | |
| thaken | |
| pantha | |
| qathon | |
| thaber | |
| noreth | |
| thager | |
| thanir | |
| sentha | |
| thasen | |
| chatha | |
| pureth | |
| thatri | |
| greeth | |
| fratha | |
| bothon | |
| authon | |
| phitha | |
| jortha | |
| ethita | |
| partha | |
| espeth | |
| thasco | |
| waleth | |
| arutha | |
| isleth | |
| maseth | |
| boteth | |
| sinind | |
| pletha | |
| albeth | |
| thaple | |
| frotha | |
| thabra | |
| bothai | |
| maceth | |
| bottha | |
| boleth | |
| brutha | |
| sleeth | |
| mkdeth | |
| gabeth | |
| perind | |
| indang | |
| bothun | |
| erinor | |
| guieth | |
| mozeth | |
| mozzim | |
| finsin | |
| erisin | |
| sintan | |
| eringa | |
| sineri | |
| cansin | |
| indles | |
| poreri | |
| marind | |
| cantan | |
| grevin | |
| indita | |
| hained | |
| hainor | |
| honger | |
| bangre |