(5 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)- Bookkeeping is the only word with 3 double letters in a row.
- Subbookkeeper is the only English word with four pairs of double letters in a row.
- Interchangeability contains the words three, eight, nine, ten, thirteen, thirty, thirty-nine, eighty, eighty-nine, ninety and ninety-eight.
- The only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the States if the United States is Q
- All of the continents end with the same letter they start with.
- Indivisibility is the only word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times.
- Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous are the only English words ending in -dous.
- Asthma begins with a vowel, ends with a vowel, and has no other vowels in between.
- Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
- Dreamt is the only common word in English ending in -mt.
- The second longest word in the English language is antidisestablishmentarianism.
- The only English word beginning with ‘tm’ is Tmesis.
- When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a portmanteau.
- There are no words in the English language that rhyme with depth, month, orange, silver or purple.
- The only two English words that start and finish with ‘und are underfund and underground.
- There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
- The most commonly used words in spoken English are I, You, The, and A.
- Of is the only commonly used word in which F is pronounced like a V. The only other words with this property are hereof, thereof and whereof.
- Hungry, Puggry and Angry are three words that end in -gry.
- The word racecar and kayak are the same backwards and forwards.
- Uncopyrightable is the longest word with no repeating letters.
- You and ewe, Eye and I, Oh and eau are pairs of words that are pronounced the same but have no letters in common.
- The combination -ough can be pronounced in nine different ways. "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtfulploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
- The word ‘byte’ is a contraction of ‘by eight.’
- Strengths is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
- The word ‘pixel’ is a contraction of either ‘picture cell’ or ‘picture element’.
- Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters -und.
- Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
- Spoonfeed, nine letters long, is the longest word whose letters are arranged in reverse alphabetical order.
- Trollied is an eight letter word whose letters are arranged in reverse alphabetical order.
- Seven letter wordswhose letters are arranged in reverse alphabetical order include sponged and wronged.
- Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
- "I am". is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Can you think of any more that I can add?
November 15th, 2005 at 6:08 am
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December 6th, 2005 at 3:10 pm
OH OH OH
The longest word in the english language (as far as I know) is …. ready for this?
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!
its a lung disease from inhaling silica dust. Check it out in the big ass dictionary at your local public library… its there.
December 15th, 2005 at 7:46 pm
Guess what?
Bookkeeping is not the only word with three pairs of repeated letters…
… the other one is “bookkeeper.”
February 12th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
South America doesn’t start and end with the same letter though!
January 4th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
There are three words that end in gry, but i cant remeber the last one
March 4th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
On the “shortest sentence” deal, “I am” isn’t the shortest sentence. You could say “Run!” and that would be a complete sentence that is only one word, because it has a verb and the subject is implied, and there is no direct object required.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:28 pm
I have to disagree with Amanda, there are ONLY TWO words that end in -gry. Hungry and Angry
March 29th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
queue has 4 consecutive vowels. Any other English word do that? Any with 5 or more?
April 15th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
as to the words ending in -gry, angry and hungry are the only two. the thing about 3 words is a riddle, and there is in fact only 2.
the shortest sentence should be “go” for the same reason nickole said except go is shorter than run.
April 23rd, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Do anybody knows a word that starts with ‘he’ and ends with the same letters. It’s not ‘hehe’ neither ‘he’.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:58 am
These are just a few words I’ve found that contradict the rule “‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’”
Species
Neither
Science
Vein
Protein
May 14th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Tied for the shortest palindromic sentence: I’m I. This has the advantages of 1) Having three sentence elements (Subject/verb/predicate nominative), rather than two (I am = subject/verb); 2) Having a stated subject, rather than an implied one (Go, or Run).
May 20th, 2007 at 5:48 am
tiguinator @ #10:
headache heartache
May 20th, 2007 at 5:55 am
3rd word ending in -gry:
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:52 pm
queueing has five consecutive vowels so does cooeeing
May 28th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Sliver rhymes with silver.
June 6th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Subbookkeeper is not a valid word, sorry.
June 6th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Oh, and also Bookkeeping isn’t the only english word with 3 double letters. Bookkeeper also.
July 1st, 2007 at 4:57 am
I THINK THAT ARE SOME OTHER WORDS WHICH END WITH DOUS.
September 11th, 2007 at 2:58 am
There are 13 words that end in -dous:
iodous, nodous, amadous, apodous, palladous, tremendous, decapodous, horrendous, stupendous, haradous, nonhazardous and ultrahazardous
September 11th, 2007 at 2:59 am
There are 3 words that end in -gry:
hungry, angry, puggry
September 11th, 2007 at 3:00 am
The shortest English word with at least one of each of the first 6 letters of the alphabet, ie a,b,c,d,e,f…
feedback
September 11th, 2007 at 3:02 am
There are at least 70 known single word palindromes in English - more than in any other language.
The longest is ‘detartrated’.
September 11th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
PALINDROMIC WORDS
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Palindromic_words#English_palindromic_words
October 19th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
I am searching for a word whose letters can be rearranged to spell another word that is a synonym of the original word. Any help?
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:26 pm
okay okay…..
when you take the word:
George Bush….then rearrange the letters it becomes:
He Bugs Gore
check for your self!!!!
~~~~PCE~~~
March 22nd, 2008 at 3:05 am
looking for the only word in the english langauge ending in TM. Can any one help
May 7th, 2008 at 8:57 am
– Love your word facts! Just noting a typo:
Hungy and Angry are two words that end in -gry.
Hungy should be hungry so it ends in gry…
Thanks!
September 26th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
the most frequently written word in the English language is the!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):):):)
October 10th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
queueing is the longest English word with vowels in succession, it has 5.