Words

I promised some of my students to post the longest word in English language, here it is with other interesting words:)


The longest English word

"pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" (45)



The two longest one-syllable words in English
"screeched" (9)2, "strengths" (9)2.

words which contain all five (or six, if you append "ly") vowels in alphabetical order
"facetious"1, "abstemious"4, "annelidous"5, "arsenious"4


words which contain all five vowels in reverse alphabetical order
"duoliteral"5, "subcontinental"5 "uncomplimentary"5


words which contain the longest strings of consonants14
"bergschrund" (6), "borschts" (6), "eschscholtzia" (6), "latchstring" (6), "weltschmerz" (6)


longest word with no repeated letters
"uncopyrightable" (15)4
sentence containing seven spellings of the [i] ("ee") sound
"He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas."


sentence containing nine ways the combination "ough" can be pronounced
"A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughmanstrode through the streets of Scarborough;after falling into a slough,he coughed andhiccoughed."


longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard with left hand9
"desegregated" (12), "desegregates" (12), "reverberated" (12), "reverberates" (12), "stewardesses" (12), "watercresses" (12)


longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard with right hand10
"homophony" (9), "homophyly" (9), "nonillion" (9), "pollinium" (9), "polyonomy" (9), "polyphony" (9)