Fun Facts about Words

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Fun Facts about Words

 

We speak, hear, write, and type words all day long, so words can seem pretty boring and not much fun. However, there are some pretty interesting facts about common (and a few that are not so common) words.

 

Fun with words is not limited to rhymes and palindromes. Below are 26 fun facts about words in the English language:

1. "Stewardesses" and "reverberated" are the longest words that can be typed using only the left hand.

2. “typewriter” is the longest word in the English Language that can be spelled with the the top of the keyboard

3. "Lollipop" is the longest word that can be typed using only the right hand.

4. "Skepticisms" is the longest word that can be typed using alternate hands.

5. "Rhythm" and "syzygy" are the longest words without vowels.

6. 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.

7. "Queueing" is the only word with five consecutive vowels.

8. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable." 

9. The longest one-syllable words are "screeched" and "strengths".

10. "Fortnight" is a contraction of the 2 words "fourteen nights".

11. "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that does not have one syllable. It has three!

12. "Therein" contains ten words without rearranging any of the letters: there, in, the, he, her, here, ere, therein, herein, rein.

13. Here is a sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet ‘The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog ".

14. The word "swims' when turned upside down will still look like same i.e. ‘swims'.

15. The sentence 'Are you as bored as I am ' can be read backwards and would still make sense!

16. "Deeded" is the only word that is made using only two different letters, each used three times.

17. There are not any words that rhyme with orange, purple, silver, or month.

18. The longest word with all the letters in alphabetical order is ‘almost’.

19. The only words with three consecutive double letters are "bookkeeping" and "bookkeeper".

20. "Set" has the most definitions of any word in the English language.

21. "Boxing day" was originally celebrated in England, for the servants to the rich people. After Christmas, the servants “boxed up” all the leftovers from the rich people and bring them home.

22. 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"!

23. the number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in it

24. The word "testify" derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles and hold their testicles in their hand.

25. The highest scoring word in the game Scrabble is "quartzy".

26. "Subcontinental" is the only word that uses each vowel only once and in reverse alphabetical order.