The Voynichese query viewer supports custom query overlays. Use the links below to view these custom queries.

Information Bits
Diverse Words
Wrapped Words
Palindromes
Word Grids
Word Graphs
Label Words
Initial & Final Words
Split Words
Recurring Word Sequences
Word Lengths
Superfluous Characters
Word Variants
Folio & Paragraph Contents
Character Substitutions

Information Bits

The following is a heat map of the amount of information bits per word, with the darker colors assigned to the words with the most information:
http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:word-bits

The number of bits per word is given by the log (base-2) of the word's associated probability. The probability of a word in the text has been computed as the product of the conditional probabilities of its characters. E.g.:

Diverse Words

The following queries highlight all words (with minimum size of five, six and seven characters) which do not contain repeated characters.

http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:word-five-diverse
http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:word-six-diverse
http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:word-seven-diverse

Wrapped Words

The following query highlights in red all words that occur across a line boundary with unwrapped occurrences highlighted in blue.

http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:word-wraps

Palindromes

The following query highlights words that read the same backward or forward.

http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:word-palindromes

Word Grids

All words that differ from EVA chedy by one character insertion, removal or replacement, sorted:
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All words beginning with EVA 'p' or 'f', sorted without distinguishing 'p' from 'f':
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All words beginning with EVA 't' or 'k', sorted without distinguishing 't' from 'k':
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All words containing 'cXh', where X is 'p', 'f', 'k' or 't', sorted without distinguishing 'p' from 'f' or 'k' from 't':
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All words containing 'iiin':
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All words containing 'in' (excluding 'iiin' and 'iin'):
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All words containing 'an':
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All words containing 'n' (excluding 'in'):
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Word Graphs

In the following graphs, nodes represent a word in the Voynich vocabulary.

The color assigned to each node indicates the frequency of the respective word in the text, with white nodes having the lowest occurrence count.

Two nodes are connected if their respective words differ by at most one insertion, deletion or replacement.

Voynich words:
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Voynich words - No Edges:
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Voynich words with 6 or more characters:
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Voynich words with 6 or more characters - No Edges:
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For contrast, consider the same graphs for Dante's Divine Comedy (in Italian).

Dante's words:
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Dante's words - No Edges:
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Dante's words with 6 or more characters:
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Label Words

The following query highlights all labels, where a label is a word that occurs by itself in the text, according to the EVA transcription.

The actual labels are highlighted in green, with all other occurrences highlighted in blue. For example, the label okchoy, at the center of folio f57v, is highlighted in green, whereas the occurrence of okchoy in the second paragraph of f1r is highlighted in blue.

All labels: http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:label-words

Initial & Final Words

The following queries highlight the sets of words that occur at the start or end of folios, paragraphs and lines.
http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:folio-start-words
http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:folio-end-words
http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:paragraph-start-words
http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:paragraph-end-words
http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:line-start-words
http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:line-end-words

Split Words

The following query highlights all word pairs that also occur as a single word in the manuscript. The first word of each such pair is highlighted in green, the second in blue.

http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:split-words

Recurring Word Sequences

The following queries highlight word sequences that occur more than once in the manuscript - ignoring line and paragraph boundaries.

In the plots, each individual word is highlighted if it forms a recurring sequence with its left or right adjacent words - green indicates that the word is the first of the recurring sequence. Separate plots are provided for recurring sequences of two, three or four consecutive words.

http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:word-pairs
http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:word-triplets
http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:word-quads

Word Lengths

Superfluous Characters

Word Variants

The following query highlights all words that have one or more variants - where a variant is a similar word that differs by at most one character insertion, deletion or replacement.
Note that the majority of Voynichese words have at least one variant.

http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:all-variants

The following query colors each word according to how many single-character variants it has in the manuscript, with dark colors corresponding to higher variability.

http://www.voynichese.com/#/lay:word-variants

Folio & Paragraphs Contents

The following queries highlight all the words that occur in each specific folio or paragraph - with common words highlighted in white and uncommon words (less than 20 occurrences in the manuscript) in blue.

The images below condense all such queries in a single animation.

Folio f1r Paragraphs: 1 2 3 4 5 6
Folio f1v Paragraphs: 1 2
Folio f2r Paragraphs: 1 2
Folio f2v Paragraphs: 1 2
Folio f3r Paragraphs: 1 2 3 4
Folio f3v Paragraphs: 1 2
Folio f4r Paragraphs: 1 2
Folio f4v Paragraphs: 1 2
Folio f5r Paragraphs: 1 2
Folio f5v Paragraphs: 1
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Folio f18v Paragraphs: 1
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Label Words

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Word Graphs

Label Words

Initial & Final Words

Split Words

Recurring Word Sequences

Word Lengths

Superfluous Characters

Word Variants

Folio & Paragraphs Contents

Character Substitutions