Qwervoragrams

Qwervoragrams are (I have decided) sets of word that can be typed on (at least) two different keyboard layouts using the same keystrokes.

The word is a portmanteau of 'qwerty', 'Dvorak', and 'anagram'.

This repo contains a scala application that finds qwervoragrams from a file containing a list of words. It only finds qwerty-Dvorak qwervoragrams.

Findings

Here are some of the better qwervoragrams (of the form "qwerty word, Dvorak word"):

• flossy, unroof
• kodak, treat
• hoard, drape
• maid, mace
• raid, pace
• malt, many
• lard, nape
• goal, iran
• Noah, Brad
• boat, xray
• Isis, Coco
• maud, mage
• idol, cern
• roam, pram
• paid, lace
• sods, oreo
• soap, oral
• slid, once
• card, jape

There are also a few examples where the Dvorak word is the same as the qwerty word:

• mama
• mmmm

These are called Homoqwervoragrams.

Full output from the application can be found in the file output/qwerverograms.txt.

Future research

Investigation into qwervoragram phrases or sentences, or even runnable source code may be interesting.

Or pointless.

Contributions

Thanks to SCOWL and friends for the word list. See res/README and res/README_SCOWL for more info.

Thanks to wikipedia for the qwerty-Dvorak conversion.