What is the least used word?

The 20 least known words in English
  • genipap.
  • futhorc.
  • witenagemot.
  • gossypol.
  • chaulmoogra.
  • brummagem.
  • alsike.
  • chersonese.


What is the most unpopular word?

1. Moist. Moist is by far the clear winner when it comes to least favorite words. Plus, moist has been around since at least 1325 A.D., which means people have had plenty of time to get sick of its use.

What are rarely used words?

7 English words that nobody uses anymore (but totally should)
  • Facetious. Pronounced “fah-see-shuss”, this word describes when someone doesn't take a situation seriously, which ironically is very serious indeed. ...
  • Henceforth. ...
  • Ostentatious. ...
  • Morrow. ...
  • Crapulous. ...
  • Kerfuffle. ...
  • Obsequious.


What are the rarest words?

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?


What is the least used word in the English alphabet?

The 11 Least-Used Letters in English (About 3 of Which Are Decently Surprising)
  1. 1 | Z, ~1/1111 letters used. Apparently Dr. ...
  2. 2 | Q, ~1/833. For what it's worth, Norvig found that Q can exist without U. ...
  3. 3 | J, ~1/625. ...
  4. 4 | X, ~1/435. ...
  5. 5 | K, ~1/185. ...
  6. 6 | V, ~1/95. ...
  7. 7 | B, ~1/68. ...
  8. 8 | Y, ~1/60.


Top 10 Most Least Used Words In The English Language



What is the rarest letter?

What is the rarest letter in the alphabet?
  • 1 | Z, ~1/1111 letters used. Apparently Dr. ...
  • 2 | Q, ~1/833. For what it's worth, Norvig found that Q can exist without U. ...
  • 3 | J, ~1/625. ...
  • 4 | X, ~1/435. ...
  • 5 | K, ~1/185. ...
  • 6 | V, ~1/95. ...
  • 7 | B, ~1/68. ...
  • 8 | Y, ~1/60.


How many words use Z?

'Z' is often underestimated and underutilized, but truth be told, there are actually around 32,913 words containing the letter 'z'.

What is the 1000 word?

1,000 words is 2 pages single-spaced or 4 pages double-spaced. Documents that typically contain 1,000 words are high school and college essays, short blog posts, and news articles.


What is the weirdest word?

Here are the 12 weirdest words in English:
  • Gerrymandering.
  • Fungus.
  • Aa.
  • Vex.
  • Bequeath.
  • Mixology.
  • Flub.
  • Bibble.


What is the longest weirdest word?

1. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) Pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust.

What words don t exist anymore?

Let's bring them back!
  • Beef-Witted. Adjective. ...
  • Boreism. Noun. ...
  • Brabble. Verb. ...
  • Cockalorum. Noun: A braggart, a person with an overly high opinion of himself. ...
  • Crapulous. Adj: It sounds like a word Dr Seuss made up, but it's legit. ...
  • Fudgel. Verb: Pretending to work when you're really just goofing off. ...
  • Fuzzle. ...
  • Groak.


What is the least known word ever?

The 20 least known words in English
  • genipap.
  • futhorc.
  • witenagemot.
  • gossypol.
  • chaulmoogra.
  • brummagem.
  • alsike.
  • chersonese.


What is the longest unofficial word?

Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters)

The longest unchallenged nontechnical word that not all directories recognize, is floccinaucinihilipilification – the act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless.

What is the longest 1 word?

The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.


Why is Cannot 1 word?

People often ask me whether they should write cannot (1 word) or can not (2 words). Cannot is a contraction of can not. In British English cannot is the normal form. In American English both forms are acceptable but cannot is more common.

What are hated words?

For those looking for a top list of words people hate, here are some words to consider:
  • Blog.
  • Bulbous.
  • Chunky.
  • Clogged.
  • Curd.
  • Dripping.
  • Fester.
  • Fetus.


What is the funnest word to say?

12 funniest words in English
  • Shenanigans.
  • Bamboozle.
  • Bodacious.
  • Brouhaha.
  • Canoodle.
  • Gnarly.
  • Goggle.
  • Gubbins.


What is the 15 word?

15 in words is written as Fifteen.

What is the trickiest word to say?

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


What is a $1 word?

A dollar word is one whose total value is exactly 100 when each of its letters is assigned a value according to its position in the alphabet: a=1, b=2, ..., z=26. Some examples of dollar words are: contented, cookout, mittens and shadowing.


What is the 189 000 Letter word?

1. methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl… isoleucine. You'll notice there's an ellipsis here, and that's because this word, in total, is 189,819 letters long, and it's the chemical name for the largest known protein, titin.

What 300 words looks like?

How many pages is 300 words? The answer is close to two-thirds of a page single spaced, and around one and one-third of a page double spaced. Depending on your settings this may vary, but typically with a 12 point font-size, Times New Roman or Arial font and regular page margins your results should be similar.

What are some V words?

10 letter words that start with V
  • vacantness.
  • vacationed.
  • vacationer.
  • vaccinated.
  • vaccinates.
  • vaccinator.
  • vacillated.
  • vacillates.


Is Zoot a word?

Noun. (UK, slang) A marijuana cigarette. (UK, slang) PCP; phencyclidine.

Is IQ a word in Scrabble?

Though it's annoying that you cannot play such a clever word as IQ in Scrabble, there are plenty of uses for that pair of letters.