# The Made Up Word Google Game
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 1, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010 "2009-05-01T19:44:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/1 "2009-05-01T19:44:17Z")
I didn’t put this in The Game Room, because it hardly qualifies as a game. Mods will of course feel free to move it.
When I get bored, I sometimes type made up words into Google, with the idea of getting the smallest number of hits, while getting at least one hit. The idea is to get as many in a row before you get something with no hits. I’m still attempting to get my first ever 1 hit word. As I’m sure you know, Google will show exact hits, and suggested hits. Of course, you use the exact hits in scoring.
Recent game:
opugnent - 5 hits
smugsut - 3 hits
blorjer - 10 hits
snujnut - 2 hits
lorvter - 5 hits
kopstug - 0 hits
So, five succesful words for a total of 25 hits, with an average hit total of 5. Anyone want to try to best this average?
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### Author:  [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/2 "2009-05-01T20:06:48Z")
First word I tried was “bacarab”, which yielded 772 hits due to such combinations as “BAC Arab”. Next choice was “snuhdel”, which yielded suggestions for “snudel” but no matches for the spelling I specified. Okay, I finally got a good starter:
ligfaz – 8 hits
trubofe – 3 hits
Whoops, 235 hits for _shaxil_. No way I’m going to beat your average…
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### Author:  [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/3 "2009-05-01T20:23:27Z")
I think I found a 1 hit word:
beghnil
Am I playing correctly?
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### Author:  [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/4 "2009-05-01T21:19:44Z")
My kinda game.
uvilism – 5 hits
sowmpt – 2 hits
vandennic – 1 hit (booya!)
The last one came up on a non-English page, so I don’t know if that counts. Some no-hitters in between, too, so these don’t qualify per the stated rules, but it’s a fun game nonetheless, if only to come up with words that have a few hits.
Maybe this’ll earn Game Room status after all?
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/5 "2009-05-01T21:36:21Z")
quapalude - 2 hits
hepbarta - 2 hits
gertefark - 0 hits. Damn. But gertefar has only one!
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/6 "2009-05-01T21:38:49Z")
You know what’s funny? Board readers scour the SDMB and in a day, maybe less, this thread will be searchable by Google. So every word we put here will automatically cause your hit count to increase by one.
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### Author:  [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/7 "2009-05-01T21:41:48Z")
Yeahbut, this should have been put in Games. {{D&R}}
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/8 "2009-05-01T22:03:52Z")
> [@simply\_cats](#):
>
> I think I found a 1 hit word:
>
> beghnil
>
> Am I playing correctly?
Yes, two suggested hits, but only 1 exact hit.
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/9 "2009-05-01T22:05:03Z")
> [@Simmerdown](#):
>
> My kinda game.
>
> uvilism – 5 hits
> sowmpt – 2 hits
> vandennic – 1 hit (booya!)
>
> The last one came up on a non-English page, so I don’t know if that counts. Some no-hitters in between, too, so these don’t qualify per the stated rules, but it’s a fun game nonetheless, if only to come up with words that have a few hits.
>
> Maybe this’ll earn Game Room status after all?
While I didn’t say so, all pages are in play, not just English pages.
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/10 "2009-05-01T22:07:37Z")
> [@Enderw24](#):
>
> You know what’s funny? Board readers scour the SDMB and in a day, maybe less, this thread will be searchable by Google. So every word we put here will automatically cause your hit count to increase by one.
Okay, but that doesn’t really matter as far as the game goes, since the words will only appear a day later, or whatever, and presumably no one will be able to stay in a given game for that long.
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/11 "2009-05-01T22:10:03Z")
whensetak = 1 hit.
I think it would be good to define your word! Now it seems that the real whensetac is a user name on a discussion board, but my whensetak is an adhesive used to attach children’s artwork to walls. “Mom, can you get the whensetak? I made a drawing!”
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/12 "2009-05-01T22:19:47Z")
**Sigmagirl** , did you keep playing after “whensetak?” The idea is to keep going until you get no hits.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/13 "2009-05-01T22:32:49Z")
snorphgh: 0 hits, 2 did-you-means.
plambh: 8 hits.
snerkler: _566_ hits. (?!)
camsworg: 1 hit, 2 did-you-means.
angranglan: 0 hits.
blibbertition: 0 hits.
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/14 "2009-05-01T23:23:22Z")
porchlep- 2 hits
vudwun- 3 hits, 2 did-you-means
cribla- 6,690 hits
valpuns- 1,150 hits (apparently a word in German)
schrooo- 124 hits
kiblad- 679 hits
velman- 105,000 hits (apparently a last name)
kiwalo- 1,910 (apparently a Filipino city)
fumfum- 112,000 hits
blatorna- 126 hits
gwallo- 302 hits
killo- 34,200 hits
dabando- 196 hits
freeeg- 1,490 hits
platusando- 4 hits, 2 did-you-means
quentonian- 22 hits
fergodado- 0 hits
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### Author:  [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/15 "2009-05-02T00:25:12Z")
Smorpic–4 hits
Vilupian–1 hit (wa-hoo!)
Groilian–1 hit
Nilgilo–3 hits
Who would’ve thought that this game would be educational? Putting in “Thorkel” got me a link to info on [this guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorkell_the_Tall)
And “Schlenk” was apparently the name of an organic chemist. He came up with a way of manipulating materials in extremely cold and dry conditions. There’s something called a “Schlenk apparatus” for doing so, and there are “Schlenk conditions” under which some organometallic reactions can happen.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/16 "2009-05-02T00:30:04Z")
Miftard - 244 hits
Fraktard - 178 hits
crafnor - 32 hits
This is hard.
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### Author:  [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/17 "2009-05-02T00:51:25Z")
harvabar - 148
miclockmer - 0
blurtel - 119
bacedous - 0
schmottle - 148
blorfsk - 0
yeah, yeah, I know, the rules, but I just kept going…
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/18 "2009-05-02T03:15:09Z")
I decided to try made up words that we actually use in our family…
grimfley - 14 (a piece of dirt of lint)
twoodoodle - 0 (that certain part of a woman’s anatomy)
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### Author:  [@Floppy\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floppy_Joe)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/19 "2009-05-03T00:41:10Z")
Sheesh! Most all of the words presented here almost appear as random combinations of letters, and don’t appear to have any use. Most, but not all.
I made up a word, which I have used on another board as a verb. It’s meaning is rather apparent when used properly. I just did a search on that word and came up with one hit, which was on that board. And its not just any quackamamy word, either. I’m not going to tell you what that word is because I can imagine it to be used for a new online pseudonym sometime in the future.
So, in wrapping this up…
\ - 1 hit
quackamamy - 0 hits
Maybe you should be able to use your made-up word in a sentence…
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-made-up-word-google-game/495010/20 "2009-05-03T15:21:50Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#):
>
> **Sigmagirl** , did you keep playing after “whensetak?” The idea is to keep going until you get no hits.
Sorry, I guess I misunderstood. I had LOTS of words that got no hits. I didn’t write them down! I was mistaking it for the game of Googlewhack:
[http://www.googlewhack.com/](http://www.googlewhack.com/) in which you try to get only one hit. Some of my friends play it.
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