Fun Facts about Words

• The letter combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways, which can be heard in this sentence: A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.
• "Deeded" is the only word that is made using only two different letters, each used three times.
• There aren't any words that rhyme with orange, purple, silver, or month.
• The only words with three consecutive double letters are "bookkeeping" and "bookkeeper".
• "Underground" is the only word that begins and ends with "und".
• "Polish" changes from a noun or a verb to a nationality when it is capitalized.
• The highest scoring word in the game Scrabble is "quartzy".
• "Subcontinental" is the only word that uses each vowel only once and in reverse alphabetical order.
• Longest word in English is “Typewriter” which can be written by one row of keyboard.
• Only word “Taxi” is spelled exactly same in French, English, German, Portuguese, Swedish, and Dutch
• “Forty” is the only word which has its letter in alphabetical order.
• The longest word “Skepticisms ” can be typed using alternate hands.
• “Screeched” and “strengths” are longest one-syllable words
• English shortest words that contain letters A, B, C, D, E, and F are “Feedback” and “Boldface”.
• If you spell out every number from 0 to 999, you will find every vowel except for “a “. You have to count to one thousand to find an “a “!
• “Rhythm” and “syzygy” (look it up and learn a new word today!) are the longest words without vowels.
• “Subcontinental” is the only word that uses each vowel only once and in reverse alphabetical order.
• The only words with “uu” are “vacuum “, “muumuu “, “residuum “, and “continuum “.
• “Therein” contains ten words without rearranging any of the letters: the, he, her, ere, therein, herein, there, in, here, rein.
• "Stewardesses" and "reverberated" are the longest words that can be typed using only the left hand.
• "Lollipop" is the longest word that can be typed using only the right hand.
• The letters H, I, O, and X are the only letters that look the same if you flip them upside down or view them from behind.
• "Queueing" is the only word with five consecutive vowels.
• The word with the most consonants in a row is "latchstring".
• "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that does not have one syllable. It has three!
• "Therein" contains ten words without rearranging any of the letters: there, in, the, he, her, here, ere, therein, herein, rein.
• A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X, and Y are the symmetric capital letters.
• The symmetric lowercase letters are i, l, o, t, u, v, w, x.