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A Few Facts About Words

  • Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!

  • Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, “Gadsby”, which contains over 50,000 words — none of them with the letter E!

  • The shortest complete sentence in the English language is “I am.”

  • The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is the least used!

  • Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.

  • Goddessship is the only word in the English language with a triple letter.

  • The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet!

  • The sentence “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs” uses every letter of the alphabet and uses the least letters to do so!

  • The world’s longest-named lake has 45 letters (Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg).

  • In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass.

  • “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.

  • The longest word in the English language is ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’ which describes a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of volcanic matter or a similar fine dust.

  • “Jack” is the most common name in nursery rhymes.

  • In the English language there are only three words that have a letter that repeats six times. Degenerescence (six e’s), Indivisibility (six i’s), and nonannouncement (six n’s).

  • The only three words in the English language to have 2 consecutive u’s is vacuum, residuum, and continuum.

  • The very first dictionary “The American” took Noah Webster 20 years to put together.

  • The word “alphabet” is derived from the first two letters in the Greek alphabet: “alpha” and “beta”.

  • The only word in the English language that has 4 sets of double letters in a row is balloonneer.

  • A moment is defined as zero seconds long.

  • The only words with all the vowels listed in order are facetiously and abstemiously.

  • The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”.

  • The only word with all the vowels in reverse order is subcontinental.

  • There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!

  • Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.

 

 
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