Gregory Todd Williams

I’m rather sceptical of some of these (especially “th”), but by request here is a list of words with dense ascenders. I’ve only included those ranking above 0.666, as that rank alone nets 371 words.

• 1: th
• 0.8: blaff, bluff, delft, dhabb, fifth, filth, flaff, fluff, fulth, illth, tellt, theft, thilk, thill, thoft, tilth
• 0.75: baff, baft, baht, bald, balk, ball, bath, batt, beld, bell, belt, beth, bhat, bhut, bibb, biff, bikh, bilk, bill, billfold, bitt, blab, blad, blah, blat, bleb, blet, blob, blot, blub, bold, bolk, boll, bolt, both, bott, buff, buffball, buhl, bukh, bulb, bulk, bull, bult, butt, byth, dabb, daff, daft, dalk, dalt, debt, deft, delf, dell, dhak, dill, dodd, doff, doll, dolt, dubb, duff, dull, dult, faff, fall, fell, felt, fill, flak, flat, fled, flet, flit, flitfold, flob, flot, flub, fold, folk, fuff, fulk, full, haff, haft, half, hall, halt, hath, hatt, heft, hell, hill, hilt, hold, holl, holt, hubb, huff, hulk, hull, kath, keld, kelk, kell, kelt, khat, khet, khot, kill, kilt, kith, koff, koft, kohl, lall, lath, left, lift, lill, lilt, lith, loft, loll, luff, lull, taft, takt, tald, talk, tall, tath, teff, tell, telt, teth, that, theb, thob, thof, thud, tiff, tift, till, tilt, toff, toft, told, toll, tolt, tuff, tuft, tuth
• 0.714: babbitt, bathtub, battled, bdellid, befilth, blattid, blobbed, bluffly, bottled, bulblet, bullbat, debtful, fifthly, flathat, flatlet, flubdub, flyball, flybelt, fulfill, holdall, huthold, khutbah, talkful, tallith, talthib, thuluth, tuftlet, tutball, twelfth
• 0.7: bellbottle

Interesting that there are the same number of words that rank 0.8 from the ascender and descender lists.