1. Nauseous. “Nauseous” is a hard word to spell because of the number of vowels in the word and the pronunciation. It has a “sh” sound but does not have the letters s and h.
The word onomatopoeia is a jumble of vowels and is probably the most difficult English word to pronounce. It is pronounced [on-uh-mat-uh–pee–uh], and it defines a word that imitates a sound. The –poeia suffix is pronounced [pee–uh]. The letter O is silent.
1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (forty-five letters) A lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica or quartz dust.
Moist. Moist is by far the clear winner when it comes to least favorite words. Plus, moist has been around since at least 1325 A.D., which means people have had plenty of time to get sick of its use.
Rare words are defined as words that are not likely to be part of a child's vocabulary in a given grade range. Unlike high-frequency words, which are based on frequency in printed texts and are words that are generally understood by most students (e.g., arm, box, dog, ball), rare words are much more sophisticated.
Of all the words in the English language, the word “OK” is pretty new: It's only been used for about 180 years. Although it's become the most spoken word on the planet, it's kind of a strange word.
Both are correct, according to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.). However, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) treats the version with the audible “t” as a variant that occurs in educated speech but is considered unacceptable by some.
The longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis with 45 letters.
The shortest word is a. Some might wonder about the word I since it consists of one letter, too. In sound, a is shorter because it is a monophthong (consists of one vowel), while I is a diphthong.
Pulchritudinous (and pulchritude) come from the Latin pulcher (which means “beautiful”), the same source for a number of uncommon words in English, such as pulchrify (“to beautify”), pulchritudeness (a synonym of pulchritude), and pulchrous ("fair or beautiful”).
This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP. ' It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v]. At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?
Some common synonyms of hate are abhor, abominate, detest, and loathe. While all these words mean "to feel strong aversion or intense dislike for," hate implies an emotional aversion often coupled with enmity or malice. hated the enemy with a passion.
In language studies, logomisia is an informal term for a strong dislike for a particular word (or type of word) based on its sound, meaning, usage, or associations. Also known as word aversion or verbal virus.
1. methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl…isoleucine. You'll notice there's an ellipsis here, and that's because this word, in total, is 189,819 letters long, and it's the chemical name for the largest known protein, titin.
In the 17th century, Dr. Edward Strother coined the 52-letter word aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic. The word is used to describe the spa waters in Bath, England.
As we saw at the start of our hunt, the longest word according to a lot of sources is the technical name for the protein titin. It is the same across all languages and has nearly 200,000 letters. Here's a snippet of the first 4,000 characters! Definitely not a word for the faint of heart!