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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

word play!

  • The longest word in English dictionaries at 45 letters long is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
  • The longest English word that does not contain the letter 'e' is floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Cabbaged and fabaceae, at 8 letters apiece, are the longest words that can be played on a musical instrument!
  • Aegilops, 8 letters long, is the longest word with its letters arranged in alphabetical order.
  • Spoonfed, 9 letters long, is the longest with its letters arranged in reverse alphabetical order.
  • CIMICIC and CIMICID, are the longest words exclusively made up of Roman numerals in upper case and among such words the "highest” are MIMIC at 1,999 and IMMIX at 1,909.
  • Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest word consisting strictly of alternating consonants and vowels.
  • Dermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly and uncopyrightable, each 15 letters long, are the longest in which no letter appears more than once.
  • Unprosperousness and esophagographers fill the bill for the longest word in which each letter occurs at least twice.
  • Discrete – discreet, is the longest homophonic anagram, (or 2 words composed of the same letters that are spelled differently but sound the same.)
  • the longest palindrome (reading the same backwards and forwards) is redivider.
  • The longest words that are reverse images of each other are stressed and desserts.
  • The longest (and only) word that contains all vowels including 'y' in alphabetical order is facetiously.
  • The longest single syllable with a single vowel is strengths.
  • The longest word with each vowel in reverse alphabetical order is subcontinental.
  • This may be everyone’s favorite after this: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words!

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