Recognizing written words involves identifying individual
letters, as well as keeping track of specific positions of the
letters. Interestingly, some languages show flexibility in letter-
position encoding which is inferred by the observation that
pseudowords formed by transposing internal letters of a word
(e.g., jugde-JUDGE) can facilitate recognition of the given
word. While research in English and other Indo-European
languages have shown that readers can cope with such
violations in the canonical order of letters in a word, research
from other languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Korean
show contrasting results. Such scenario creates a need of more
research from different writing systems of the world, so that a
universal model of word-recognition can be built. Therefore, in
the current study, we investigated flexibility in letter-position
encoding in Hindi (Devanagari script). Interestingly, we found
evidence for flexibility in letter position encoding in Hindi
similar to English and other Indo-European languages.