Here are some little known English word tidbits to help get your year off to a good start:
- The longest word you can spell without repeating a letter: Uncopyrightable.
- The longest word with just one vowel: Strengths.
- The only English word with a triple letter: Goddessship.
- The longest commonly used word with no letter appearing more than once: Ambidextrously.
- The word with the longest definition in most dictionaries: Set.
- The longest common word without an a, e, i, o or u: Rhythms.
- The shortest -ology (study of) word: oology (the study of eggs).
- The only two common words with six consonants in a row: Catchphrase and latchstring.
- The longest English word with letters appearing in alphabetical order: Aegilops (an ulcer in the eye).
- Of is the only word in which an f is pronounced like a v.