Any word, if you look at it for long enough.
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tardigrade
"bed" looks like a bed.
Boob looks like boobs (top view B, front view oo, side view b)
I see it, and I cannot unsee it. Well done
Thanks, but I didn't invent that one.
Bananana
Hands
Fugazi
Put.
Queue
Leaving a comment here on behalf of HIMYM: Bowl.
All of them
thats right. letters are just arbitrary little squiggles, and if you look at any of them too long they lose the heuristic you associate with them and the fact that theyre just little squiggles becomes visible.
I dont think one word or another is more or less likely to cause this effect.
Squiggles
This is true, but anecdotally it happens quicker with some words than others.
weirder
vacuum
Hyperbole
The.
What.
All of them?
Gauge
Inflammable
Uninflammable
Tartlets
Moist
Done and does
Snail
Foot
Surf
Western society.
The most educated generation of all time, somehow resemble cattle in their absolute meekness .