What is the shortest word in English?

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
diphthong
A diphthong (/ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈdɪp-/ DIF-thong, DIP-; from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two sounds', from δίς (dís) 'twice', and φθόγγος (phthóngos) 'sound'), also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.
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. Both do consist of one letter in the English writing system, and in most fonts I is the narrowest letter.
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What word takes 3 hours to say?

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… isoleucine is the chemical name for the protein of “titin” also known as “connectin.” The largest known protein that consists of 26, 926 amino acids is made up of 189, 819 letters and can take about three hours to pronounce.
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Is there a word with all 26 letters?

An English pangram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. The most well known English pangram is probably “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. My favorite pangram is “Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.”
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What is the shortest and longest word in English?

In English, the shortest words are four letters long. In some other languages, we use words of only two characters. The longest words are 17-18 letters - for example, "environmentalists" and "unenthusiastically". The longest word in any language so far is in Portuguese - 'caracteristicamente'.
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Is I A word?

1. "I" is obviously a word because it is a personal pronoun. "A" is the indefinite article.
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The shortest words in English



What words have 3 A's in them?

smaaahl
  • smaaahl.
  • staaamp.
  • usafaaa.
  • saaarmm.
  • ofaaabc.
  • ospaaal.
  • qjaaahl.
  • rafhaaa.
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What is the 27th letter in the alphabet?

Total number of letters in the alphabet

Until 1835, the English Alphabet consisted of 27 letters: right after "Z" the 27th letter of the alphabet was ampersand (&). The English Alphabet (or Modern English Alphabet) today consists of 26 letters: 23 from Old English and 3 added later.
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What begins with E and ends with E riddle?

What starts with E ends with E and only has one letter in it?! – The Answer Wall.
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Which sentence has A to Z word?

A sentence using all the letters in the alphabet is called a pangram (from the Greek for "every letter"). "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is the most famous pangram, but there are many others. My favorite may be "the five boxing wizards jump quickly," which is four letters shorter.
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What 7 letter word has no vowels?

Not including plurals, there is only one seven-letter word which has none of the five vowels. That word is nymphly, which is a rare variation of 'nymphlike'. However, two six-letter words, glycyl and rhythm, can have an 's' added in the plural to make a seven-letter word without a vowel.
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Is y still vowel?

Y is considered to be a vowel if… The word has no other vowel: gym, my. The letter is at the end of a word or syllable: candy, deny, bicycle, acrylic.
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What word has all 5 vowels?

Eunoia, at six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels.
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Is there a word with 1000 letters?

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It's a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis.
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What is the longest video on YouTube?

Jonathan Harchick of Moldy Toaster Media currently holds the record for the longest video on YouTube, titled “THE LONGEST VIDEO ON YOUTUBE – 596 HOURS.” The video was uploaded back in 2012 and hasn't been beaten as far as we know.
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Is there a word without a vowel?

Words with no vowels. Cwm and crwth do not contain the letters a, e, i, o, u, or y, the usual vowels (that is, the usual symbols that stand for vowel sounds) in English. But in those words the letter w simply serves instead, standing for the same sound that oo stands for in the words boom and booth.
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What has a neck but no head?

The answer to the “who is that with a neck and no head” riddle is “a shirt”. There you have it!
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What can run but can't walk?

An iron horse with a flaxen tail.
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What is full of holes but still?

Sponge is full of holes but still holds water.
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Is ñ a letter?

The only letter in the Spanish alphabet that originated in Spain, the Ñ is not only a letter but a representation of Hispanic heritage and identity as well. The Ñ's story started with 12th-century Spanish scribes.
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What number is Z?

Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
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Is AAA a word?

No, aaa is not in the scrabble dictionary.
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What are some 9 letter words?

Of the almost 41,000 words by the length of nine letters, some of the most well-known include ABHORRENT, ABILITIES, ABRASIONS, ACQUITTED, ADULTHOOD, BASEBOARDS, BLEACHERS, DRIZZLING, EMBEZZLES, EXPERTISE, HIJACKERS, LIFEHACKS, NEWLYWEDS, ORTHODOXY, PARALYZED, RECOGNIZE, REFLEXIVE, TECHNIQUE, TEXTBOOK, UNPLUGGED, ...
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