What's the world's shortest word?

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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Which word has 5 vowels in a row?

Eunoia, at six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels.
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How short is the shortest word?

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".
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What is the shortest word to say in English?

There are five main vowels in Eunoia, which is the shortest word in the English language.
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What are the shortest words?

Two-letter words

Besides the greeting hi, there are verbs—am, be, do, is, and go. There are lots of articles, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions—as, an, at, by, in, no, of, on, so, to, up. Finally, there are pronouns—he, it, me, us, and we.
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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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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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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 word takes 3 hours to say?

You will be surprised to know that the longest word in English has 1, 89,819 letters and it will take you three and a half hours to pronounce it correctly. This is a chemical name of titin, the largest known protein.
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What is a five dollar word?

The most expensive word in the English language is “yes”.

Conversely (five-dollar word), the most valuable word in the English language is “no”. (There is a difference between expensive and valuable.)
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What is the weirdest word?

Here are the 12 weirdest words in English:
  • Vex.
  • Bequeath.
  • Mixology.
  • Flub.
  • [
  • Bibble.
  • Kakorrhaphiophobia.
  • Berserk.
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What is the meaning of Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl isoleucine?

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 a word with 11 letters?

Some of the most common 11 letter words include: INFORMATION: Knowledge or facts learn, especially about a certain subject. PROFESSIONS: Jobs and occupations, what people do for a living. COPYRIGHTED: Material that is protected by copyright, a legal right.
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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 is the hardest word to say?

The Most Difficult English Word To Pronounce
  • Rural.
  • Otorhinolaryngologist.
  • Colonel.
  • Penguin.
  • Sixth.
  • Isthmus.
  • Anemone.
  • Squirrel.
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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?

The most widely known pangram is the one that's traditionally been used to test typewriters or keyboards: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
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Why is Y called i griega?

The letter is called i/y griega, literally meaning "Greek I", after the Greek letter ypsilon, or ye.
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Can W be a vowel?

Yes, the letter W can behave as a vowel. It's time to level up your Scrabble game, people. And, to all our grade-school peeps out there, get ready to knock the socks off your spelling teacher.
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Is the Y in Abby a vowel?

If the Y makes a long E sound (as in 'Germany' or 'hungry'), Y is a vowel. If the Y is part of a digraph–two letters that make a sound together–(as in 'May' or 'abbey'), Y is considered a vowel.
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What word has all 6 vowels?

[...] Considering y as a vowel, the suffix -ly can be added to a number of these words; thus the shortest word containing six unique vowels in alphabetical order is aeriously, with nine letters (OED)[.]
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What word has no vowels y?

Scrabble Words With No Vowels That Use "Y"

Try using short-lettered words like "By," "Cry," and "Dry." If that doesn't do the trick, consider longer words like "Glyph," "Psych," and "Rhythm."
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