Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Lexically interesting words

Longest word without a vowel: symphysy.

Word with most vowels: counterrevolutionaries.

Words with most consecutive vowels (5): cooeeing, miaoued, miaouing, queueing.

Smallest word with all 5 vowels: eulogia, miaoued, sequoia.

Longest word with no repeated letter: dermatoglyphics.

Longest word with letters in alphabetical order: aegilops.

Longest word with letters in reverse alphabetical order: trollied.

Longest word that can be typed with the right hand alone (on a qwerty keyboard): phyllophyllin.

Longest word that can be typed with the left hand alone (on a qwerty keyboard): devertebrated.

TYPEWRITER (10 letters) can be typed using only the top row of keys on a standard keyboard.

FICKLEHEADED and FIDDLEDEEDEE are the longest English words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet, each being 12 letters long.

Beijing and Fiji have three dotted letters in a row.

Here are some examples words containing double letters, for each letter of the alphabet: AARDVARK, ABBOT, ACCENT, ADD, FEED, OFF, EGG, WITHHOLD, SKIING, AVIJJA, BOOKKEEPER, ILL, IMMUNE, ANNOY, HOOP, APPLE, HUQQA, ARRAY, KISS, LITTLE, VACUUM, SAVVY, SLOWWORM, WAXXENN, CUBBYYEW, and DAZZLE.

HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS is the longest word consisting entirely of alternating vowels and consonants.

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