Logology is the study of recreational linguistics, an activity that encompasses a wide variety of word games and wordplay emphasizing letter patterns. The field is in ways analogous to recreational mathematics.
Some topics that are studied in logology include lipograms, acrostics, palindromes, tautonyms, isograms, pangrams, bigrams, trigrams, tetragrams, transdeletion pyramids, pangrammatic windows etc.
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The term "logology" was in the past used to refer to the science of word studies[1] but was adopted by Dmitri Borgmann to refer to recreational linguistics.[2]