What's the rarest word?

Here are the fifteen most unusual words you can find in the English language.
  • Nudiustertian. ...
  • Quire. ...
  • Yarborough. ...
  • Tittynope. ...
  • Winklepicker. ...
  • Ulotrichous. ...
  • Kakorrhaphiophobia. ...
  • Xertz. Who would have imagined it?
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What is the strangest word?

Here are the 12 weirdest words in English:
  • Vex.
  • Bequeath.
  • Mixology.
  • Flub.
  • [
  • Bibble.
  • Kakorrhaphiophobia.
  • Berserk.
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What are some rare words?

50 Rare Words That Are Useful to Know
  • Accismus (noun) Accismus is a useful term for pretending to be disinterested in something when you actually want it. ...
  • Acumen (noun) ...
  • Anachronistic (adjective) ...
  • Anthropomorphize (verb) ...
  • Apricate (verb) ...
  • Bastion (noun) ...
  • Burgeon (verb) ...
  • Convivial (adjective)
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What is the rarest used word in the English language?

Fewer than 3% of participants marked they knew the 20 English words below.
  • genipap.
  • futhorc.
  • witenagemot.
  • gossypol.
  • chaulmoogra.
  • brummagem.
  • alsike.
  • chersonese.
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What is a very unique word?

1. Abomasum — the fourth stomach of a ruminant, such as a cow or sheep (noun) 2. Absquatulate — to leave somewhere abruptly (verb)
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Rare English words



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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What is the cutest word?

What's The Cutest Word In The World?
  • charm.
  • glitter.
  • bubble.
  • bumblebee.
  • petite.
  • humdrum.
  • snuggle.
  • pipsqueak.
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What is the oldest word?

Mother, bark and spit are just three of 23 words that researchers believe date back 15,000 years, making them the oldest known words.
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What are beautiful rare words?

25 Rare Words with Beautiful Meanings
  • Coddiwomple (English slang) ...
  • Defenestration. ...
  • Eudaimonia (Greek) ...
  • Hygge (hoo-geh) (Danish) ...
  • Limerence. ...
  • Mudita (Sanskrit) ...
  • Numinous (from Latin word numen) ...
  • Peripatetic.
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What word has all 26 letters in it?

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 least popular word?

Least Common English Words
  • abate: reduce or lesson.
  • abdicate: give up a position.
  • aberration: something unusual, different from the norm.
  • abhor: to really hate.
  • abstain: to refrain from doing something.
  • adversity: hardship, misfortune.
  • aesthetic: pertaining to beauty.
  • amicable: agreeable.
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What is the prettiest word ever?

The Top 10 Most Beautiful English Words
  • 3 Pluviophile (n.)
  • 4 Clinomania (n.) ...
  • 5 Idyllic (adj.) ...
  • 6 Aurora (n.) ...
  • 7 Solitude (n.) ...
  • 8 Supine (adj.) ...
  • 9 Petrichor (n.) The pleasant, earthy smell after rain. ...
  • 10 Serendipity (n.) The chance occurrence of events in a beneficial way. ...
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What is the hard word?

A semi-technical term for a difficult WORD of foreign origin: for example, azimuth, hierophant, munificence, perigee, Vedanta. Early English dictionaries, especially in the 17c, that explained such exotic words by means of everyday words, came to be known as hard-word dictionaries.
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What words are not words?

These aren't real words
  • irregardless. This classic made-up word has become so common in U.S. colloquial usage that Merriam-Webster's dictionary recognizes it as a “nonstandard” form of regardless. ...
  • unhabitable. ...
  • themself. ...
  • refudiate. ...
  • runner-ups. ...
  • stupider. ...
  • bigly. ...
  • snollygoster.
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What was the 1st English word?

There was no first word. At various times in the 5th century, the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and other northern Europeans show up in what is now England. They're speaking various North Sea Germanic dialects that might or might not have been mutually understandable.
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Who invented talking?

Language started 1.5m years earlier than previously thought as scientists say Homo Erectus were first to talk. In the beginning was the word. And it was first spoken by Homo Erectus, according to a controversial new theory.
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What's the shortest word ever?

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. 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 are some 3 letter words?

Category:English three-letter words
  • ace.
  • few.
  • fat.
  • fan.
  • fam.
  • fag.
  • fad.
  • fab.
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What is a fun word?

amusing, enjoyable, entertaining, lively, pleasant, celebration, distraction, enjoyment, joke, joy, laughter, pastime, pleasure, sport, absurdity, ball, blast, buffoonery, cheer, clowning.
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What is the most aesthetic word?

The 30 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language
  • Vellichor. ...
  • Petrichor. ...
  • Serendipity. ...
  • Diaphanous. ...
  • Limerence. ...
  • Silhouette. ...
  • Akimbo. ...
  • Mellifluous.
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What are aesthetic words?

  • elegant,
  • exquisite,
  • glorious,
  • Junoesque,
  • magnificent,
  • resplendent,
  • splendid,
  • statuesque,
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How do you say cute boy?

beauteous
  1. attractive.
  2. bonny.
  3. comely.
  4. easy on the eyes.
  5. fine-looking.
  6. good-looking.
  7. gorgeous.
  8. handsome.
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How do you say cute slang?

cutie
  1. babe.
  2. [slang],
  3. beauty,
  4. beauty queen,
  5. cookie.
  6. (or cooky),
  7. dolly bird.
  8. [British],
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