Upside down number words

Author: Hakan Kjellerstrand (hakank@gmail.com)

Upside down number words are words which can be read as numbers when turned upside down. E.g. the word "big" upside down is the number 619.

The conversion table for the characters to digits used here are: (As we can see, 8 is the only digit not possible to read as a character.)

Here is a list of Swedish and English upside down number words using my usual dictionaries. After a suggestion (in Swedish), I manually added the words blogg and blog.

Statistics
The longest words in Swedish are 9 characters long: bobsleigh and obeboelig. The largest number (617309390) is for obeboelig.
In English the words eggshell and eligible are both 8 characters long. The largest number (77345663) is for the word eggshell.

Combograms
These words could be (but were not) generated by the program Combograms with the string "oizehsglb" as source word. E.g. for Swedish and English.

Also, see the excellent site Hex Words and Upside Down Number Words for more of this stuff, unfortunately using only English words. The words may show a different set of (English) words compared to this page, since we may using different dictionaries.

(An aside. The words consisting only of the hexadecimal characters "abcdef" - the HexWords - can also be generated by Combograms: in Swedish and English.)
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