Interesting Words

AEIOUY

• abstemiously
• facetiously

Long words

• 45 letters
  • pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
• 28 letters
  • interdenominationalistically
  • nonrepresentationalistically
• 27 letters
  • electroencephalographically
• Self-reference ?
  • incomprehensibleness
  • straightforwardness

Many successive consonants

• No vowel
  • crwth
  • JHVH
  • cwm
• Nine letters but only one vowel
  • strengths
• Six consecutive consonants
  • latchstring
  • festschrift, weltschmerz (German words)
• A few examples of five consecutive consonants
  • ghths : eighths
  • hnhnm : Houyhnhnm
  • lfths : twelfths
  • lphth : phenolphthalein
  • stscr : postscript
• Nice monovocalism
  • ngthl : strengthlessness

Many successive vowels

• Five consecutive vowels
  • ueuei : queueing

• Four consecutive vowels
  • aeae : Graeae
  • aiia : Hawaiian
  • aiya : Rubaiyat stanza
  • ayyi : sayyid
  • eyei : eyeing
  • eyey : wheyey

  • aeoa : palaeoanthropic
  • oeae : zoeae
  • ayee : payee
  • oyee : employee
  • ayey : clayey
  • ayoi : kayoing

  • uaia : guaiac(um)
  • uaya : quayage
  • iyea : biyearly, semiyearly
  • ooie : gooier
  • ooey : flooey, gooey, hooey
  • oyoe : kayoed
  • oyou : joyous
  • oiou : homoiousian
  • uiou : obsequious
  • ueou : aqueous
  • uayu : guayule

  • aeoi : scarabaeoid
  • oeia : mythopoeia, onomatopoeia, pharmacopoeia, prosopopoeia

  • ayeu : Bayeux tapestry
  • aieu : maieutic
  • uiae : reliquiae

  • ayou : bayou, layout
  • iaou : giaour
  • ioau : radioautograph
  • ioua : Siouan
  • ouay : Douay Version
  • uoia : sequoia, Iroquoian
  • uoya : buoyancy, buoyant

  • oyeu : voyeur

Monovocalisms

• Five A's
  • abracadabra
• Four A's
  • anasarca
  • Arawakan
  • astragalar
  • Atalanta
  • Athapaskan (Athapascan, Athabacan, Athabaskan)
  • caracara
  • caragana
  • catamaran
  • cataractal
  • jacaranda
  • lavalava
  • maharaja(h)
  • paramatta
  • phantasmata
  • tacamahac
  • tarmacadam

• Five E's
  • beekeeper
  • defenselessness
  • defervescence
  • effervescence
  • enfeeblement
  • sneezeweed
• and more than 80 words with four E's

• Five I's
  • primitivistic
• Four I's
  • gingivitis
  • kinnikinnic(k)
  • nihilistic
  • philistinism
  • spiritistic

• Four O's
  • bloodroot
  • cookbook
  • cottonwood
  • foolproof
  • footstool
  • hoodoo
  • koodoo
  • locofoco(s)
  • locomotor
  • octoroon
  • photoflood
  • poolroom
  • proofroom
  • protozoon
  • schoolroom
  • toolroom
  • voodoo

• Three U's
  • cumulus
  • furculum
  • jugulum
  • jujutsu
  • mundungus
  • succubus
  • susurrus
  • tumulus
  • untruthful
  • usufruct
  • and over 500 other U-monovocalic words

• Three Y's
  • syzygy
• Two Y's
  • Cymry
  • dryly
  • flyby
  • Gypsy
  • pygmy
  • shyly
  • slyly
  • spryly
  • thymy
  • typy
  • wryly

Monoconsonants

• Three B's
  • baobab
  • bibb
  • bobby
• Three and two C's
  • cocci
  • acacia
  • cacao
  • ceca
  • coca
  • coco
  • cocoa
  • yucca
• Three D's
  • daddy
  • doodad
  • duddie (duddy)
• Three and two F's
  • feoffee
  • fief
  • fife
  • iffy
  • off
• Two G's
  • agog
  • egg
  • gag
  • gaga
  • gage
  • gauge
  • gig
  • gouge
  • yegg
• Two H's
  • hah
• Two J's
  • juju
• Two K's
  • kaka
  • kayak
  • keek
• Three L's
  • allele
  • alleluia
  • allyl
  • Lally
  • leally
  • loll
  • lolly
  • loyally
  • lull
• Three M's
  • mamma(e)
  • mammy
  • mummy
• Four and three N's
  • nonunion
  • ninny
  • ninon
• Three P's
  • pappi
  • peppy
  • poppy
  • puppy
• One Q
  • aqua(e)
  • qua
  • quai, quay
  • queue
• Three R's
  • arrayer
  • arrear
  • error
  • orrery
  • roarer
• Four and three S's
  • assess
  • asses
  • osseous
  • oyesses
  • sass
  • sassy
  • sissy
  • Susus
• Three T's
  • tattoo
  • tittie
  • totty
  • tutti
  • tutty
• Two V's
  • vav
  • viva
• Two W's
  • waw
  • wow
• One X
  • ax(e)
  • ex
  • ox, oxy
  • oxeye
  • x
  • xi
• One Z
  • azo
  • ooze
  • oozy
  • oyez
  • zee
  • zoa
  • zoea(e)
  • zoo

Alliterations

• Five A's
  • abracadabra
  • anagrammatical(ly)
  • and over 80 words with four A's
• Four B's
  • flibbertigibbet(y)
  • and about 60 words with three B's
• Six C's
  • pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
  • and around 15 words with four C's
• Four D's
  • doddered
  • dunderheaded
  • muddleheaded(ness)
• Six E's
  • hexamethylenetetramine
  • and about 20 words with five E's
• Four F's
  • riffraff
  • and about 20 words with three F's
• Four G's
  • gagging
  • gigging
  • giggling(ly)
  • goggling
  • guggling
  • zigzagging
• Around 40 words with three H's
• Six I's
  • indivisibility
  • pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
  • and around 20 words with five I's
• Around 15 words with two J's
• Four and three K's
  • knickknack
  • Habakkuk
  • kickback
  • kinnikinnick
  • knickerbocker
• Five L's
  • polysyllabically
  • and about 70 words with four L's
• Four M's
  • mammatocumulus
  • mammiform
  • mammonism
  • mesembryanthemum
  • Muhammadanism
• Five N's
  • nonintervention(ist)
  • and around 45 words with four N's
• Nine and five O's
  • pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
  • glottochronology
  • homochromosome
  • monocotyledonous
  • photocomposition
  • protozoology
• Four P's
  • snippersnapper, whippersnapper
  • and about 100 words with three P's
• Two Q's
  • equivoque
  • and about 10 words in quinqu-
• Around 15 words with four R's
• Seven and Six S's
  • stresslessness
  • expressionlessness
  • possessedness
  • possessiveness
  • prepossessingness
  • resistlessness
  • senselessness
• Around 25 words with four T's
• Four U's
  • furunculous
  • tumultuous (-ly) (-ness)
  • unscrupulous (-ly) (-ness)
  • usufructuary
• Three V's
  • ovoviviparous (-ly) (-ness)
  • vulvovaginitis
• Three W's
  • bowwow
  • powwow
  • swallowwort
  • williwaw
  • willowware
• Two X's
  • executrix
  • exotoxin
  • maxixe(s)
• About 20 words with three Y's
• Four Z's
  • razzmatazz
  • and no word with three Z's

Word Lists too long to be included here

• Perec's Dictionary
• The Pentomino-Dictionary
• Mathews' Corpus

Last modified : June 10th, 1997