Major System pegs 500–599

L leads every peg in this block, which gives it a liquid, easy-to-say quality: 500 (lassos), 555 (lily law). Useful for anyone memorising decimals, since a long digit string broken into threes lands here often, and the l sound is distinct enough not to blur into its neighbours.

The digit 5 encodes l, so every one of the hundred pegs below opens on that sound and then spells the remaining two digits with the same table the 00-99 chart uses. Read the encoding column as the consonant skeleton: the vowels between them are free, which is the whole reason a peg word can be found for every number.

Anchors in this block

2 numbers here are authored rather than composed, each with a written image to go with it.

• 500 · lassos L·S·S: a cowboy's loops.
• 555 · lily law L·L·L: lilies laid on the law book.

All 100 pegs