Thursday, September 07, 2006

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts

The longest English word that does not contain the letter 'e' is occinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters.

Aegilops, 8 letters long, is the longest word with its letters arranged in alphabetical order.

CIMICIC and CIMICID, each 7 letters long, are the longest words that are exclusively made up of Roman numerals when written in upper case. Among words consisting of only Roman numeral letters, the "highest scoring" are MIMIC (2,102) and IMMIX (2,012).

Lighttight and hillypilly, each 10 letters long, are the longest words consisting only of letters with ascenders, descenders and dots in lower case.

Honorificabilitudinitatibus, 27 letters long, is the longest word consisting strictly of alternating consonents and vowels.

Unprosperousness, 16 letters long, is the longest word in which each letter occurs at least twice.

Discrete - discreet is the longest homophonic anagram (2 similarly pronounced words that are spelled differently but sound the same and are composed of the same letters).

The longest words that are reverse images of each other are stressed and desserts

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