# Puzzler 11/7, "Perfect Words" -- add yours! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Show\ **Created:** [November 7, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148 "2009-11-07T17:40:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HunterJE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8491ac/32.png) [@HunterJE](https://community.cartalk.com/u/HunterJE)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/1 "2009-11-07T17:40:34Z")
This week’s puzzler answer got me thinking about what others I could come up with. If you didn’t catch it, the “perfect words” in the puzzler are words in which the number of letters matches their place in some list – for example, “Mars,” which is the fourth planet and has four letters. A few I found: Comet (fifth reindeer listed in “A Visit From St. Nicholas”) Wrath (fifth deadly sin) Help! (only if you count the !, the Beatles’ fifth UK album) ---
**Author:** ![DanAxtell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@DanAxtell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/DanAxtell)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/2 "2009-11-08T22:45:45Z")
aa 2nd word in unabridged dictionaries, meaning a kind of lava Sixtus I 7th pope, leaving off the "Saint" Saint Zephyrinus 15th pope Joshua 6th book of the Bible John 4th book of the New Testament Romans 6th book of the New Testament I 1 in Roman numerals II 2 in Roman numerals III 3 in Roman numerals one and two-thirds dozen 20 four score and seven minus sixty 27 ---
**Author:** ![mudder91](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@mudder91](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mudder91)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/3 "2009-11-09T17:47:03Z")
A few good ones and a few not so good ones: (golden) rings - 5 Friday (6th day of week on calander) dodecahedron (12 sides) decathalon (10 events) Jackson (7th president) VanBuren (8th president) Franklin Pierce (14th president) A = 1st letter of alphabet CEE = 3rd letter of alphabet Michael - 7th child in the musical Jackson family Marlon - 6th child in the musical Jackson family ---
**Author:** ![TaylorConsulting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@TaylorConsulting](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TaylorConsulting)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/4 "2009-11-10T07:15:33Z")
My list… Thirteeeeenth Friday (if you start with Sunday) Franklin Pierce (fourteenth president) Stephen Grover Cleveland (22nd & 24th president, rarely used first name, though) Delaware (alphabetically the eighth state) Australia (alphabetically the ninth member of the United Nations) San Francisco (twelfth largest US city by population [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_United\_States\_cities\_by\_population](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population) ) K2 (second highest peak in the world) Yellow (sixth longest river in the world) Thanks, John Taylor Santa Clarita, CA ---
**Author:** ![opus111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/5daacb/32.png) [@opus111](https://community.cartalk.com/u/opus111)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/5 "2009-11-16T14:23:44Z")
Three more: re (from the do-re-mi etc. solfege scale) indigo (from the red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet rainbow sequence) nod (from Wynken, Blynken, and Nod) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Steve\_R](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Steve_R)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/6 "2009-11-16T21:12:30Z")
A couple of more: Pinky (fifth finger) Home (as in Home Plate - 4th base) A little more obscure: Vespasian (9th Roman Emperor) Procyon and Achernar (7th and 8th brightest stars in the sky) Propylene (has 9 atoms - must be a lot like this) ---
**Author:** ![45mpg\_diesel\_Jetta](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/45mpg_diesel_jetta/32/5905_2.png) [@45mpg\_diesel\_Jetta](https://community.cartalk.com/u/45mpg_diesel_Jetta)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/7 "2009-11-17T01:01:30Z")
SABBATH (on the 7th day He rested) PERFECTION ( “10” As in Nadia Comenici. Or Bo Derek.) ---
**Author:** ![45mpg\_diesel\_Jetta](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/45mpg_diesel_jetta/32/5905_2.png) [@45mpg\_diesel\_Jetta](https://community.cartalk.com/u/45mpg_diesel_Jetta)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/8 "2009-11-17T01:02:31Z")
This couldn’t be funnier. After I posted the above, I was rummaging around the [CarTalk.com](http://CarTalk.com) website. I winced to find out my turbo diesel Jetta is on the list of chick cars, but I also found out that… the VIPER is fifth on the list of guy cars, and the Ford F150 comes in at number four. I tried to find my Jetta on the guy car list but I was redirected to a Martha Stewart website. Tom and Ray… how do I explain this to my wife? ---
**Author:** ![45mpg\_diesel\_Jetta](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/45mpg_diesel_jetta/32/5905_2.png) [@45mpg\_diesel\_Jetta](https://community.cartalk.com/u/45mpg_diesel_Jetta)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/9 "2009-11-17T01:33:37Z")
Some are a bit of a stretch, but “thirteeeeeenth” wins it all, hands down!! Still laughing ---
**Author:** ![JimmyEG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e68b1a/32.png) [@JimmyEG](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JimmyEG)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/10 "2010-03-13T01:12:06Z")
Leno (fourth host of The Tonight Show) Lakers (won sixth NBA championship) Nationals (won ninth NBA championship) ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/11 "2010-03-13T13:21:01Z")
Correction: Leno (fourth and sixth host of the tonight show). ---
**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/12 "2010-03-13T13:53:55Z")
Tom - The Third Most Popular Of The “Car Talk” Maggliozzi Brothers. Ray - Coincidently, The Third Most Popular Of The “Car Talk” Maggliozzi Brothers. CSA ---
**Author:** ![velscar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/db5fbb/32.png) [@velscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/velscar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/13 "2010-03-16T23:45:08Z")
All the words provided have 3 consecutive letters in them. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/14 "2010-03-20T15:57:42Z")
Four. ---
**Author:** ![dagosa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/dagosa/32/9837_2.png) [@dagosa](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dagosa)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/puzzler-11-7-perfect-words-add-yours/39148/15 "2010-03-22T16:42:09Z")
I…the first person I think of when I wake up.