What english word(s) have the most consecutive consonants?
What english word(s) have the most consecutive consonants?
Based on a quick regex search I will go with "latchstring" (6)
There are several with 6 -- some with 7 but likely only in larger dictionaries.
` wrote:
Can anyone think of what it is? Or is there more than one word like this?
I'll tell you what it is tomorrow if no one guesses it first.
And just so you know that I know, I'll tell you that for A=1, B=2, etc., the letters in the word add up to 78.
Good boy! You want a cookie?
I talk french wrote:
Keep learning wrote:
What ?
No it doesn't.
It just means anus (singular or plural) and it's pronounced the same whether it's singular or plural.
Source : French is my native language.
Wow, someone really pushed your anus
11/10
Counting Y as a consonant, words with a seven-letter sequence:
encrypts
rhythms
strychnine
Eight (but a proper noun):
Kyrgyzstan
Hounddogharrier wrote:
Brojo
Would the plural be "Brosjo" or "Brojos"????????
response wrote:
Hounddogharrier wrote:
Brojo
Would the plural be "Brosjo" or "Brojos"????????
You're trying to spell it out phonetically, which isn't right. The plural is spelled "morans."
p.n. wrote:
St. Ignatius of Antioch wrote:
Abstemious has ten letters and all five vowels in alphabetical order.
Add -ly to those and you get the "sometimes y"--also in alphabetical order.
That reminds me of The Far Side cartoon (I can't find it via Google) in which the husband (drawn as some letter) confronts the wife (drawn as another letter) who confesses "Yes, yes," I've been seeing all the vowels. And sometimes y."
Facetious has them all in alphabetical order without duplicates. You also have facetiously if you count y as a vowel.
I talk french wrote:
Keep learning wrote:
What ?
No it doesn't.
It just means anus (singular or plural) and it's pronounced the same whether it's singular or plural.
Source : French is my native language.
Wow, someone really pushed your anus
Thanks for lighting up a somewhat meh day.
` wrote:
Can anyone think of what it is? Or is there more than one word like this?
I'll tell you what it is tomorrow if no one guesses it first.
And just so you know that I know, I'll tell you that for A=1, B=2, etc., the letters in the word add up to 78.
Sheep.
If y is acting as a vowel its not really a consonant.
Hirschsprung's (disease) is one
grox wrote:
Counting Y as a consonant, words with a seven-letter sequence:
encrypts
rhythms
strychnine
Eight (but a proper noun):
Kyrgyzstan
The y’s are obviously acting as vowels in those words.
Fogrunr wrote:
` wrote:
Can anyone think of what it is? Or is there more than one word like this?
I'll tell you what it is tomorrow if no one guesses it first.
And just so you know that I know, I'll tell you that for A=1, B=2, etc., the letters in the word add up to 78.
Sheep.
How do ewe pronounce each version?
p.n. wrote:
Further, if you say "gullible" really slowly it sounds like "oranges."
This is the most useful thing I got out of of this thread.
I keep chuckling.
old guy 72 wrote:
How about a seven letter word that has all five vowels?
eulogia
old guy 72 wrote:
How about a seven letter word that has all five vowels?
Are you being facetious?
` wrote:
Can anyone think of what it is? Or is there more than one word like this?
I'll tell you what it is tomorrow if no one guesses it first.
And just so you know that I know, I'll tell you that for A=1, B=2, etc., the letters in the word add up to 78.
How about prix?
ex: Grand Prix