What is the longest word with one vowel

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The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of a word and of length.

Words may be derived naturally from the language’s roots or formed by coinage and construction. Additionally, comparisons are complicated because place names may be considered words, technical terms may be arbitrarily long, and the addition of suffixes and prefixes may extend the length of words to create grammatically correct but unused or novel words.

The length of a word may also be understood in multiple ways. Most commonly, length is based on orthography (conventional spelling rules) and counting the number of written letters. Alternate, but less common, approaches include phonology (the spoken language) and the number of phonemes (sounds).

Major dictionaries

The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters), a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles,^[12] specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis. The word was deliberately coined to be the longest word in English, and has since been used^{[citation needed]} in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.^[6]

The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary does not contain antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters), as the editors found no widespread, sustained usage of the word in its original meaning. The longest word in that dictionary is electroencephalographically (27 letters).^[13]

The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries is flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning «nothing» and defined as «the act of estimating something as worthless»; its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.^[14][15][16]

Ross Eckler has noted that most of the longest English words are not likely to occur in general text, meaning non-technical present-day text seen by casual readers, in which the author did not specifically intend to use an unusually long word. According to Eckler, the longest words likely to be encountered in general text are deinstitutionalization and counterrevolutionaries, with 22 letters each.^[17]

A computer study of over a million samples of normal English prose found that the longest word one is likely to encounter on an everyday basis is uncharacteristically, at 20 letters.^[18]

The word internationalization is abbreviated «i18n», the embedded number representing the number of letters between the first and the last.^[19][20][21]

Creations of long words

Coinages

In his play Assemblywomen (Ecclesiazousae), the ancient Greek comedic playwright Aristophanes created a word of 171 letters (183 in the transliteration below), which describes a dish by stringing together its ingredients:

Henry Carey’s farce Chrononhotonthologos (1743) holds the opening line: «Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?»

Thomas Love Peacock put these creations into the mouth of the phrenologist Mr. Cranium in his 1816 book Headlong Hall: osteosarchaematosplanchnochondroneuromuelous (44 characters) and osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary (51 characters).

James Joyce made up nine 100-letter words plus one 101-letter word in his novel Finnegans Wake, the most famous of which is Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk. Appearing on the first page, it allegedly represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and Eve. As it appears nowhere else except in reference to this passage, it is generally not accepted as a real word. Sylvia Plath made mention of it in her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, when the protagonist was reading Finnegans Wake.

«Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious», the 34-letter title of a song from the movie Mary Poppins, does appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper noun defined in reference to the song title. The attributed meaning is «a word that you say when you don’t know what to say.» The idea and invention of the word is credited to songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman.

Agglutinative constructions

The English language permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes and suffixes. This is sometimes referred to as agglutinative construction. This process can create arbitrarily long words: for example, the prefixes pseudo (false, spurious) and anti (against, opposed to) can be added as many times as desired. More familiarly, the addition of numerous «great»s to a relative, such as «great-great-great-great-grandparent», can produce words of arbitrary length. In musical notation, an 8192nd note may be called a semihemidemisemihemidemisemihemidemisemiquaver.

Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest common example of a word formed by agglutinative construction.

Technical terms

A number of scientific naming schemes can be used to generate arbitrarily long words.

The IUPAC nomenclature for organic chemical compounds is open-ended, giving rise to the 189,819-letter chemical name Methionylthreonylthreonyl…isoleucine for the protein also known as titin, which is involved in striated muscle formation. In nature, DNA molecules can be much bigger than protein molecules and therefore potentially be referred to with much longer chemical names. For example, the wheat chromosome 3B contains almost 1 billion base pairs,^[22] so the sequence of one of its strands, if written out in full like Adenilyladenilylguanilylcystidylthymidyl…, would be about 8 billion letters long. The longest published word, Acetylseryltyrosylseryliso…serine, referring to the coat protein of a certain strain of tobacco mosaic virus (P03575), is 1,185 letters long, and appeared in the American Chemical Society’s Chemical Abstracts Service in 1964 and 1966.^[23] In 1965, the Chemical Abstracts Service overhauled its naming system and started discouraging excessively long names. In 2011, a dictionary broke this record with a 1909-letter word describing the trpA protein (P0A877).^[3]

John Horton Conway and Landon Curt Noll developed an open-ended system for naming powers of 10, in which one sexmilliaquingentsexagintillion, coming from the Latin name for 6560, is the name for 10^3(6560+1) = 10¹⁹⁶⁸³. Under the long number scale, it would be 10^6(6560) = 10³⁹³⁶⁰.

Gammaracanthuskytodermogammarus loricatobaicalensis is sometimes cited as the longest binomial name—it is a kind of amphipod. However, this name, proposed by B. Dybowski, was invalidated by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature in 1929 after being petitioned by Mary J. Rathbun to take up the case.^[24]

Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis is the longest accepted binomial name for an organism. It is a bacterium found in soil collected at Llan­fair­pwll­gwyn­gyll­ (discussed below). Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides is the longest accepted binomial name for any animal, or any organism visible with the naked eye. It is a species of soldier fly.^[25] The genus name Parapropalaehoplophorus (a fossil glyptodont, an extinct family of mammals related to armadillos) is two letters longer, but does not contain a similarly long species name.

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic, at 52 letters, describing the spa waters at Bath, England, is attributed to Dr. Edward Strother (1675–1737).^[26] The word is composed of the following elements:

• Aequeo: equal (Latin, aequo^[27])
• Salino: containing salt (Latin, salinus)
• Calcalino: calcium (Latin, calx)
• Ceraceo: waxy (Latin, cera)
• Aluminoso: alumina (Latin)
• Cupreo: from «copper»
• Vitriolic: resembling vitriol

Notable long words

Place names

The longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukaka­piki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­ki­tana­tahu (85 letters), which is a hill in New Zealand. The name is in the Māori language. A widely recognized version of the name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters), which appears on the signpost at the location (see the photo on this page). In Māori, the digraphs ng and wh are each treated as single letters.

In Canada, the longest place name is Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde, a township in Ontario, at 61 letters or 68 non-space characters.^[28]

The 58-letter name Llan­fair­pwll­gwyn­gyll­gogery­chwyrn­drob­wlll­lanty­silio­gogo­goch is the name of a town on Anglesey, an island of Wales. In terms of the traditional Welsh alphabet, the name is only 51 letters long, as certain digraphs in Welsh are considered as single letters, for instance ll, ng and ch. It is generally agreed, however, that this invented name, adopted in the mid-19th century, was contrived solely to be the longest name of any town in Britain. The official name of the place is Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, commonly abbreviated to Llanfairpwll or Llanfair PG.

The longest non-contrived place name in the United Kingdom which is a single non-hyphenated word is Cottonshopeburnfoot (19 letters) and the longest which is hyphenated is Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe (29 characters).

The longest place name in the United States (45 letters) is Char­gogga­gogg­man­chau­ggagogg­chau­buna­gunga­maugg, a lake in Webster, Massachusetts. It means «Fishing Place at the Boundaries – Neutral Meeting Grounds» and is sometimes facetiously translated as «you fish your side of the water, I fish my side of the water, nobody fishes the middle». The lake is also known as Webster Lake.^[29] The longest hyphenated names in the U.S. are Winchester-on-the-Severn, a town in Maryland, and Washington-on-the-Brazos, a notable place in Texas history. The longest single-word town names in the U.S. are Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania and Mooselookmeguntic, Maine.

The longest official geographical name in Australia is Ma­mungku­kumpu­rang­kunt­junya.^[30] It has 26 letters and is a Pitjantjatjara word meaning «where the Devil urinates».^[31]

Liechtenstein is the longest country name with single name in English. The second longest country name with single name in English is Turkmenistan. There are longer country names if one includes ones with spaces.

Personal names

Guinness World Records formerly contained a category for longest personal name used.

• From about 1975 to 1985, the recordholder was Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfe­schlegelstein­hausenberger­dorffvoraltern­waren­gewissenhaft­schaferswessen­schafewaren­wohlgepflege­und­sorgfaltigkeit­beschutzen­von­angreifen­durch­ihrraubgierigfeinde­welche­voraltern­zwolftausend­jahres­vorandieerscheinen­wander­ersteer­dem­enschderraumschiff­gebrauchlicht­als­sein­ursprung­von­kraftgestart­sein­lange­fahrt­hinzwischen­sternartigraum­auf­der­suchenach­diestern­welche­gehabt­bewohnbar­planeten­kreise­drehen­sich­und­wohin­der­neurasse­von­verstandigmen­schlichkeit­konnte­fortplanzen­und­sicher­freuen­anlebens­langlich­freude­und­ruhe­mit­nicht­ein­furcht­vor­angreifen­von­anderer­intelligent­geschopfs­von­hinzwischen­sternartigraum, Senior (746 letters), also known as Wolfe+585, Senior.
• After 1985 Guinness briefly awarded the record to a newborn girl with a longer name. The category was removed shortly afterward.

Long birth names are often coined in protest of naming laws or for other personal reasons.

• The naming law in Sweden was challenged by parents Lasse Diding and Elisabeth Hallin, who proposed the given name «Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116» for their child (pronounced [ˈǎlːbɪn], 43 characters), which was rejected by a district court in Halmstad, southern Sweden.

Words with certain characteristics of notable length

• Schmaltzed and strengthed (10 letters) appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in The Oxford English Dictionary, while scraunched and scroonched appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary; but squirrelled (11 letters) is the longest if pronounced as one syllable only (as permitted in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary at squirrel, and in Longman Pronunciation Dictionary). Schtroumpfed (12 letters) was coined by Umberto Eco, while broughammed (11 letters) was coined by William Harmon after broughamed (10 letters) was coined by George Bernard Shaw.
• Strengths is the longest word in the English language containing only one vowel letter.^[32]
• Euouae, a medieval musical term, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels. However, the «word» itself is simply a mnemonic consisting of the vowels to be sung in the phrase «seculorum Amen» at the end of the lesser doxology. (Although u was often used interchangeably with v, and the variant «Evovae» is occasionally used, the v in these cases would still be a vowel.)
• The longest words with no repeated letters are dermatoglyphics and uncopyrightable.^[33]
• The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus. However, this is arguably a proper noun. There are several six-letter English words with their letters in alphabetical order, including abhors, almost, begins, biopsy, chimps and chintz.^[34] There are few 7-letter words, such as «billowy» and «beefily». The longest words whose letters are in reverse alphabetical order are sponged, wronged and trollied.
• The longest words recorded in OED with each vowel only once, and in order, are abstemiously, affectiously, and tragediously (OED). Fracedinously and gravedinously (constructed from adjectives in OED) have thirteen letters; Gadspreciously, constructed from Gadsprecious (in OED), has fourteen letters. Facetiously is among the few other words directly attested in OED with single occurrences of all six vowels (counting y as a vowel).
• The longest single palindromic word in English is rotavator, another name for a rotary tiller for breaking and aerating soil.

Typed words

• The longest words typable with only the left hand using conventional hand placement on a QWERTY keyboard are tesseradecades, aftercataracts, dereverberated, dereverberates^[35] and the more common but sometimes hyphenated sweaterdresses.^[34] Using the right hand alone, the longest word that can be typed is johnny-jump-up, or, excluding hyphens, monimolimnion^[36] and phyllophyllin.
• The longest English word typable using only the top row of letters has 11 letters: rupturewort. The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen.
• The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters). Nine-letter words include flagfalls; eight-letter words include galahads and alfalfas.
• Since the bottom row contains no vowels, no standard words can be formed. ^[37]
• The longest words typable by alternating left and right hands are antiskepticism and leucocytozoans respectively.^[34]
• On a Dvorak keyboard, the longest «left-handed» words are epopoeia, jipijapa, peekapoo, and quiaquia.^[38] Other such long words are papaya, Kikuyu, opaque, and upkeep.^[39] Kikuyu is typed entirely with the index finger, and so the longest one-fingered word on the Dvorak keyboard. There are no vowels on the right-hand side, and so the longest «right-handed» word is crwths.

See also

References

External links

• A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia – Long words
  • Long words (chemical names)
  • Long words (place names)
• What is the longest English word?, AskOxford.com «Ask the Experts»
• What is the Longest Word?, Fun-With-Words.com
• Full chemical name of titin.
• Taxonomy of Wordplay

Oceania, oogonia, and oxyopia, each seven letters long, are the shortest five syllable English words.

What word rhymes with land?

Strengths

What is the shortest 5 syllable word?

crwth

Is there any word without vowel?

Words with no vowels Cwm and crwth do not contain the letters a, e, i, o, u, or y, the usual vowels (that is, the usual symbols that stand for vowel sounds) in English. Shh, psst, and hmm do not have vowels, either vowel symbols or vowel sounds.

Is Japanese harder than Korean?

The Korean alphabet is much easier than Japanese, but the various levels of speach and address in Korean make it more challenging. So, in my opinion this makes Korean slightly more difficult than Japanese. The challenge with Japanese is the alphabet(s) and Kanji. Really reading Hangul I could only do after a few weeks.

What is the longest Chinese word?

Unfortunately, we don’t have the ” longest” word in China, because all our characters are individual. However, we have the most complex word. This one is “Biang”. It is the name of a kind of noodle.

What is the longest Dutch word?

Kindercarnavalsoptochtvoorbereidingswerkzaamhedenplan

Is Dutch dying?

No, Dutch is not a dying language. As a matter of fact, it is alive and well and living in English, which is the lowest common denominator of the Germanic languages, and which 1,000 years ago was about fifty percent Dutch.

Is English older than Dutch?

Relation to the Germanic languages group Within the Indo-European language tree, Dutch is grouped within the Germanic languages, which means it shares a common ancestor with languages such as English, German, and Scandinavian languages. gradually split off from Proto-Germanic, beginning around the Early Middle Ages.

What Dutch means?

the Netherlands

Before we get into words with one vowel, let us know about the English Alphabet first.

The present English alphabet consists of 26 letters, each of which has an upper- and lower-case version. It was derived from Latin script in the 7th century. Letters have been added or removed since then, resulting in the current Modern English alphabet, which consists of 26 letters with no diacritics, digraphs, or special characters. The Greek alphabet’s first two letters, alpha and beta, are combined to form the word alphabet.

Evolution of the English language

With waves of attack and eventual occupation by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians, the evolution of spoken English began in the fifth century. They spoke the same West Germanic language, but their dialects were different. Their mingling resulted in the creation of a new Germanic language known as Anglo-Saxon, or Old English.

The Vikings raid and settle in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries, bringing with them a different dialect of the same Germanic language, now known as Old Norse. The fusion of English and Viking would be the second phase in forming spoken English, and the foundation for today’s diverse English dialects.

Further vowel alterations occurred during the Middle English period. The Great Vowel Shift (c. 1500 CE) was the most profound, transforming the sound of all long vowels. The considerable changes in pronunciation between “short” mat, met, bit, cot vs. “long” mate, mete/meet, bite, coat happened after the spelling system was fixed. Other changes that left echoes in modern language include homorganic lengthening before ld, mb, nd, which accounts for the long vowels in child, mind, climb, and other words; pre-cluster shortening, which accounts for vowel alternations in child vs. children, keep vs. kept, meet vs. met; and trisyllabic laxing, which accounts for alternations such as grateful vs. gratitude, divine.

The emergence of rhotic and non-rhotic accents (i.e. “r-dropping”), the trap-bath split in many dialects of British English, and the flapping of t and d between vowels in American and Australian English are among the more notable recent modifications to the language.

Vowels

A vowel is a syllabic spoken sound that is pronounced without any vocal tract stricture. Vowels are one of the two main types of speech sounds, with consonants being the other. The quality, loudness, and number of vowels varies (length). They are usually voiced and play an important role in prosodic variation like tone, intonation, and emphasis.

The word vowel is derived from the Latin word vocalis, which means “to speak” (i.e. relating to the voice).

The word vowel is frequently used in English to refer to both vowel sounds and the written symbols that represent them (a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y).

The phonological definition of “vowel” may not always match the phonetic definition (i.e. a sound produced without constriction in the vocal tract) (i.e. a sound that forms the peak of a syllable). The approximants [j] and [w] show this: both have little constriction in the vocal tract (thus phonetically they appear to be vowel-like), but they occur at the beginning of syllables (e.g., in “yet” and “wet”), implying that they are consonants phonologically. In rhotic dialects, there is a similar controversy over whether a word like bird has an r-colored vowel / or a syllabic consonant /.

Consonant

A consonant is a sound that is not a vowel in speech. It also refers to the letters of the alphabet that represent certain sounds: consonants include Z, B, T, G, and H.

All non-vowel sounds, or their equivalent letters, are consonants: A, E, I, O, U, and occasionally Y are not consonants. H and T are consonants in hat. A consonant can also be used as an adjective to indicate things that appear to be compatible, or things that are “agreeable.” You may remark that a country’s aid offer is in line with its treaties. Consonant sounds are pleasant to hear in music, as opposed to “dissonant” sounds, which are unpleasant.

Linguists have invented systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to assign a unique and unambiguous symbol to each confirmed consonant because the number of speech sounds in the world’s languages is significantly greater than the number of letters in any one alphabet. Because there are fewer consonant letters in the English alphabet than there are consonant sounds in the English language, digraphs like ch, sh, th, and ng are employed to extend the alphabet, however some letters and digraphs represent more than one consonant. For example, the sound spelt th in “this” is not the same as the sound spelled th in “thin.

Examples of words with Only One Vowel

Call, Crab, Curb, Herb, Ghost, Strap, Harp, Sharp, Thrash, Crash, Splash, Thrush, Wrench, Worth, Wrath, Frost, First, Froth, Start, Broth, Birth, Blast, Draft, Drift, Graft, Grass, Girth, Host, Hurt

world, happy, sixty, month, fifty, party, Kelly, forty, words, watch, thing, light, story, Night, glory, candy, puppy, chris, birth, plant, smart, jelly, black, cycle, truth, bully, truck, smith, sorry, Henry, penny, North, Tyler, worth, crazy, dress, cross, march, belly, scent, harry, clock, start, right, molly, witch, think, socks, catch, storm, berry, rhyme, sally,

Holly, graph, Brown, stick, daddy, lucky, lunch, child, Nancy, fight, trust, craft, chess, skull, swing, stand, worry, sight, short, clown, grand, shark, first, drink, wrong, Dylan, shell, track, jenny, crown, small, block, wings, stars, frown, grant, Scott, blast, poppy, ghost, gabby, smell, fresh, Trent, chest, fancy, Brady, lengths,mightn’t, mustn’t, schnapps, scratch, splotch, strength, strengths, stretch , that’ll, this’ll, twelfth, twelfths.

sport, billy, twerp, perry, Tracy, twist, jolly, nasty, hyper, press, larry, patch, mercy, class, terry, stock, sting, chant, bench, birds, brand, sloth, worst, tommy, Egypt, blitz, wrist, jimmy, kitty, nanny, Clark, butch, punch, snack, stuck, yacht, ranch, marry, tasty, works, Twins, ninth, hatch, porch, chick, ditch, cards, frank, bobby, lungs.

These are only the FIVE_LETTER_WORDS with one vowel. There are many more.

Coming to the longest word with One vowel its Strengths.

Strengths is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel, with nine letters.

In the English language, what word contains only one vowel that appears six times?

Indivisibility.

Wordy Wednesday!

Welcome to Wordy Wednesday! Did you know that strengthlessnesses is the longest word containing only one (albeit very repeating) vowel? Neither did I. And I don’t really care for it. I mean, it is cumbersome to say—and that is a whole lot of e’s and s’s to remember to spell the crazy word.

But I love unique and unusual—and strengthlessnesses is definitely both of those! Here are some vitals about this «longest word containing only one (albeit very repeating) vowel»:

1. It is a noun—did you know that when a word ends in ness, it is almost always a noun? This helps with standardized testing greatly. Ness words are nearly always nouns, so in a «fill in the blank» type of assignment, if the word in question ends in ness, it has to go in a spot where a noun fits.

Tricky Trick to Help It Stick: We have students learn key words to remember things. For instance, to remember that ness words are nearly always nouns, memorize a key word or two that you know is a noun and that ends in ness.

Other ness nouns: happiness, hopefulness, craziness, gratefulness, joyfulness, smartness

2. It has to do with having strength—we teach our students to think about what you already know—anytime—but especially when approaching a new word. Is there anything about the word strengthlessnesses that you already know?
     a. You know what its base means. You already what strength means!
     b. You know that less means less or not having that quality. (We do a lot of root and affix studies here!)
 
Because of those two «things you already know,» you can know that strengthlessnesses has something to do with not having strength (i.e. less strength).

Note: You know more than you think you know! Repeat this over and over to yourself: «I know more than I think I know. I know more than I think I know.» Use what you know to learn more!

3. It can be spelled syllable-by-syllable (if you are a biphonic man or biphonic woman!): strength-less-ness-es.

4. You can also make up a trick to remember how to spell it, such as «It contains four e’s and six s’s. Or that it has four syllables—which tells you that it will have at least four vowels in it (or y’s acting like vowels)—because a syllable always contains at least one vowel. A vowel is what makes a syllable!

5. You can learn the variations of this word—because you can remember from your vocabulary studies with Language Lady that suffixes (affixes added to the ends of words) might change the SPELLING of the base word (pity is changed to piti in pitiful) but does not change the MEANING of the base word. Even with three suffixes added (less, ness, and es), the base word of strength still means strength.
             a.  stengthless—adjective meaning without strength (less words are often adjectives!)
             b. strengthlessly—adverb meaning without strength (ly words are often adverbs)
             c. strengthelessness—a noun describing someone or something that is without strength (ness words are often nouns)
            d. strengthlessnesses—a noun that means more than one someone or something that is without strength (es makes the word plural).


So there you have it—the longest word with only one repeating vowel. Did you know that you could learn so much from one word? You know a lot more than you think you know! Smile…

That’s called: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and it’s one of the longest words in the dictionary.

in addition, What word takes 3 hours to say full word?

A word of warning… the “word” takes about 3.5 hours to say. The word is 189,819 letters long. It’s actually the name of a giant protein called Titin.

Also, What is the shortest word?

Eunoia, at six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels. Seven letter words with this property include adoulie, douleia, eucosia, eulogia, eunomia, eutopia, miaoued, moineau, sequoia, and suoidea. (The scientific name iouea is a genus of Cretaceous fossil sponges.)

in the same way What is titin full name? isoleucine for the protein also known as titin, which is involved in striated muscle formation. In nature, DNA molecules can be much bigger than protein molecules and therefore potentially be referred to with much longer chemical names. … However, this name, proposed by B.

What is the 2nd longest word in the world?

10 Longest Words in the English Language

• Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) …
• Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters) …
• Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters) …
• Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) …
• Antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) …
• Honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters)

What is the hardest word to say?

The Most Difficult English Word To Pronounce

• Rural.
• Otorhinolaryngologist.
• Colonel.
• Penguin.
• Sixth.
• Isthmus.
• Anemone.
• Squirrel.

Is there a word with all 26 letters?

An English pangram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. The most well known English pangram is probably “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. … A perfect pangram is a pangram where each of the letters appears only once.

Is there any word without vowel?

Words with no vowels

Cwm and crwth do not contain the letters a, e, i, o, u, or y, the usual vowels (that is, the usual symbols that stand for vowel sounds) in English. … Shh, psst, and hmm do not have vowels, either vowel symbols or vowel sounds.

What are the 5 longest words?

1. 10 Longest Words in the English Language. …
2. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) …
3. Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters) …
4. Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) …
5. Honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters) …
6. Thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters) …
7. Antiestablishmentarian (22 letters)

What word has the most letters?

What Is The Longest English Word?

• antidisestablishmentarianism – opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England – 28 letters.
• floccinaucinihilipilification – the estimation of something as worthless – 29 letters.
• pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis – a supposed lung disease – 45 letters.

What is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest words in the dictionary — and, in an ironic twist, is the name for a fear of long words. Sesquipedalophobia is another term for the phobia. The American Psychiatric Association doesn’t officially recognize this phobia.

What is the hardest spelling bee word?

The 25 Toughest Winning Words Ever Spelled In The National Spelling Bee

• Albumen. Year: 1928. Pronunciation: al-BYOO-mun. …
• Foulard. Year: 1931. Pronunciation: foo-LARD. …
• Semaphore. Year: 1946. Pronunciation: SEM-uh-fohr. …
• Insouciant. Year: 1951. …
• Soubrette. Year: 1953. …
• Schappe. Year: 1957. …
• Smaragdine. Year: 1961. …
• Esquamulose. Year: 1962.

What is the hardest word to spell?

Top 10 Hardest Words to Spell

• Misspell.
• Pharaoh.
• Weird.
• Intelligence.
• Pronunciation.
• Handkerchief.
• logorrhea.
• Chiaroscurist.

What is the oldest word in the world?

Mother, bark and spit are some of the oldest known words, say researchers. Continue reading → Mother, bark and spit are just three of 23 words that researchers believe date back 15,000 years, making them the oldest known words.

What is the longest P word?

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a New Latin word made up of five parts. The combining form pneumono- means “lung.” The word ultramicroscopic refers to something so small that it can’t be seen by normal microscopes. Silica is a material often found in sand and flint.

What are the 10 most mispronounced words?

Here are 20 of the most commonly mispronounced words in English, and how to say them right.

• 1 Pronunciation. Ironically, many people mispronounce this word! …
• 2 Cupboard. …
• 3 Epitome. …
• 4 Salmon/almond. …
• 5 Library/February. …
• 6 Definitely. …
• 7 Ask. …
• 8 Wednesday.

What are some tricky words?

We’ve rounded up ten of the trickiest words in English and provided tips that will help you stop misspelling them.

• Necessary.
• Stationary vs. Stationery. …
• Separate. When we pronounce this word, it sounds like “seperate”. …
• Affect vs. Effect. …
• Embarrassed. …
• Compliment vs. …
• Accommodation.
• Rhythm.

What is the shortest pangram?

Now, for all those who have spent time changing fonts or filling up dummy text on book layouts, the most well-known and oft-used pangram across the world has been “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” for years. That’s 32 letters.

What is the 27th letter of the alphabet?

With its quirky shape, neither a letter nor symbol, more of a treble clef than type, the ampersand has grabbed our creative attention. But what is it about its elegant swoops and swirls that have seen it become the go-to typographic device of choice?

What is the only word in English that ends with MT?

According to Oxford Dictionaries, ‘dreamt’ is the only English word that ends with ‘mt’. The word’s derivatives including undreamt, daydreamt, and redreamt are the only other words that end with the same letters.

What 7 letter word has no vowels?

Not including plurals, there is only one seven-letter word which has none of the five vowels. That word is nymphly, which is a rare variation of ‘nymphlike’. However, two six-letter words, glycyl and rhythm, can have an ‘s’ added in the plural to make a seven-letter word without a vowel.

What is the longest word with one vowel?

Strengths, at nine letters long, is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel. What about “syndactyly”? It’s 10 letter word with 1 vowel and longer than strengths.

Is Shhh a word?

What type of word is ‘shhh’? Shhh is an interjection – Word Type.

What words are hard to say with a lisp?

Lispers’ Nemeses

• ISSpresso.
• moist process.
• phthisis.
• isepiptesis.
• antithesis.
• phthisical diathesis.
• scissile.
• narcissistic.

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