| 1.The longest word whose letters are used only once are two 15 letter words, uncopyrightable and dermatoglyphics. 2.No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. 3."Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 4.The letter "e" is the most used letter in the English alphabet, as "q" is the least. 5."Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. 7.The only words with all the vowels listed in alphabetical order are abstemious(ly), abstentious, acheilous, acleistous, affectious, anemious, arsenious, caesious, facetious(ly), fracedinous, majestious, parecious(ly) 8.The only word with all the vowels in reverse order is subcontinental. 9.The world's longest-named lake has 45 letters (Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg). 10.In the English language there are only three words that have a letter that repeats six times. Degeneresecence (6 e's), Indivisibility (6 i's), and nonannouncement (6 n's). 11.The only 4 words to have two u's placed together are continuum, muumuu, residuum, and vacuum. 12.The letter Y was invented by Palamedes, one of the heroes of the Trojan War. 13.The word "bookkeeper" is the only word in the English language with three, back-to-back double letter combinations (also bookkeeping). 14.The word "dude" was coined by Oscar Wilde and his friends. It is a combination of the words duds and attitude. 15.Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions. 16.The first Oxford English Dictionary was published in April 1928, 50 years after it was started. It consisted of 400,000 words and phrases in 10 volumes. 17.The second, third, and fourth most used letter of the English alphabet are T, A, and O. 18.The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate. 19.The English word with the most consonants in a row is latchstring. 20.The only word that consists of two letters, each used three times, is the word "deeded." 21."Rhythm" and "syzygy" are the longest English words without vowels. 22.The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths." 23."Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." 24.There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous" are hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and tremendous. 25.The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels. |
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