Fun facts about English language

Unique Words of English Language

The way you look at some words of the English language is going to change for ever after you read this. Given below are some words, most of them are simple usual words with unusual facts attached to them. So let the exploration begin!!

Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.

“Angry” and “hungry” are the only two English words that end in “-gry”.

Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous are the only four English words which end in “-dous”.

“Almost”  is the longest word in the English language which has all the letters in alphabetical order.

W A N T    S O M E    MORE    ??

 

Fun facts about English language“Bookkeeper” is the only word in the English language with three consecutive sets of double letters.

“Invisibility” is the only word in the English language which has one vowel that occurs five times.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the longest word in the English language is “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”. Bet you can’t read it!

From the word “therein” which has seven letters, ten smaller words can be formed without rearranging any of its letters: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

The shortest complete sentence in the English language is also a word – “ GO ”.

Now you Go! Your turn! Tell us the word facts that you know………       Word GO os the shortest sentence also

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  1. Mark Wilson Avatar
    Mark Wilson

    ‘Invincibility’ is also a word in which one vowel occurs five times.

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