The German Language Can Build Long Words from Few Letters

 One of the subwords is NENNEN, which, as you can see, is formed from just two distinct letters:  N and E. 

The rootword is GESESSEN, formed from only three distinct letters.

German words are quite capable of being packed into a compact graph!


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