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facts about english language(lexical)

The longest English word:

antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters)---means opposition to the separation of church and state
floccinaucinihilipilification(29 letters)--meaning the estimation of something as worthless, is the longest non-technical word in the OED. 
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis (45 letters)--a lung disease, appears to be a semi-serious concoction.

Longest word without a vowel:
symphysy.

Longest word with at most 1 vowel:
glycyphyllin, psychorhythm.

Word with most vowels:
counterrevolutionaries.

Word with most consecutive vowels (5):
cooeeing, miaoued, miaouing, queueing.

Smallest word with all 5 vowels:
eulogia, miaoued, sequoia.

Longest word with only 3 distinct alphabets:
seeresses.

Longest word with only 4 distinct alphabets:
senselessness.

Longest word with no repeated letter:
dermatoglyphics.

Longest word with letters in alphabetical order:
aegilops.

Longest word with letters in reverse alphabetical order:
trollied.

Longest word that can be typed with the right hand alone
(on a qwerty keyboard): phyllophyllin.

Longest word that can be typed with the left hand alone
(on a qwerty keyboard): devertebrated.

Longest word that can be typed using the top row
(of a qwerty keyboard): rupturewort.

Interesting words with the substring 'uu':
continuum, fatuus, menstruum, residiuum, vacuum.

Word with the maximum number of distinct alphabets (16):
 superacknowledgment.

Word with most a's (6):
 taramasalata.

Word with most e's (7):
electrotelethermometer.

Word with most i's (6):
 pericardiomediastinitis.

Word with most o's (6):
 zoologicoarchaeologist.

Word with most u's (5):
untumultous.

Words with four consecutive letters of the alphabet appearing consecutively:
 gymnoplast, superstuff, understuff.

Words with four consecutive letters of the alphabet appearing consecutively in reverse order:
 weaponmaker.

Words with 3 consecutive s's:
 headmistressship, patronessship.

The last word:
zyzzyva.

The longest word in the dictionary containing no letter more than once is "smiley." (There is a mile between the first and last letter.)

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