Above: The cover of Emmet Williams’s booklength poem Sweethearts, published by Hansjörg Mayer (1967).

Kaolin Fire created an online Williams Word Generator for 10 letters or less, and Todd L. has helped me created a PERL-based generator that runs locally on my computer for longer words. Because of this, I now have a complete word list for the 11-letter word “sweethearts,” the engine of Williams’s famous poem. It beats every other 11-letter word I’ve tried both in quality of words and in quantity. There are subjects (she, he, we), great nouns (art, heart, tea, sea, wart), and verbs in singular and plural forms (eats, hears, wears). Williams was absolutely a master at work.

The complete list follows after the jump.

a
as
at
art
eat
eats
ear
ears
ha
hat
hats
he
her
hers
heat
heats
hear
hears
heart
hearts
tar
tars
tart
tarts
tea
teas
teat
teats
tear
tears
that
thats
thar
the
thea
was
war
wars
wart
warts
we
wet
wets
wear
wears
what
whats
whet
whets
wheat
wether
sat
sart
set
sets
sea
seas
seat
seats
sear
sears
shat
she
shes
shear
shears
star
stars
start
starts
stet
see
sees
seer
seth
seethe
seethes
swat
swats
sweat
sweats
swear
swears
sweet
sweets
sweetheart