Word square place names). However, 11-squares are possible if words from a number of languages are allowed ("Word Ways", August 2004 and May 2005). It is possible to estimate the degree of difficulty of constructing word squares. 5-squares can be constructed with as little as a 250-word vocabulary. Roughly, for each step upwards, one needs four times the number of words. For a 9-square, one needs over 60,000 9-letter words, which is practically all of those in single very large dictionaries. For large squares, the vocabulary prevents selecting more "desirable" words (i.e. words that are unhyphenated, in common use, without contrived inflections,
Interrogative word and "-soever", as in "whoso" and "whomsoever".) These words have the following main meanings: Some of these words have also developed independent meanings, such as "however" as an adverb meaning "nonetheless"; "whatsoever" as an emphatic adverb used with "no", "none", "any", "nothing", etc. ("I did nothing wrong whatsoever"); and "whatever" in its slang usage. A frequent class of interrogative words in several other languages is the interrogative verb: Interrogative word An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as "what", "when", "where", "who", "whom", "why", and "how". They are sometimes called wh-words,