Longest Word using different letters
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Longest Word using different letters
What is the longest word in the dictionary that uses a letter only once?
I know of a 15 letter word.
Edit turns out my word is only in CSW.
I know of a 15 letter word.
Edit turns out my word is only in CSW.
GR MSL GNDT MSS NGVWL SRND NNLYC NNCT
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Re: Longest Word using different letters
Is itUNCOPYRIGHTABLE?
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Re: Longest Word using different letters
Could that be pluralised?Dinos Sfyris wrote:Is itUNCOPYRIGHTABLE?
DERMATOGLYPHICS is valid
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Re: Longest Word using different letters
Yes, although Peter's one is valid on Lexplorer.Dinos Sfyris wrote:Is itUNCOPYRIGHTABLE?
GR MSL GNDT MSS NGVWL SRND NNLYC NNCT
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Both the answers were mentioned in QI, Series C, Episode 3 a few years ago as the longest words without repetitive letters.Marc Meakin wrote:Yes, although Peter's one is valid on Lexplorer.Dinos Sfyris wrote:Is itUNCOPYRIGHTABLE?
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Unfortunately not, so the answer can't be printed here.Dinos Sfyris wrote:Is itUNCOPYRIGHTABLE?
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Re: Longest Word using different letters
I'd like to buy a small water feature in Devon, so I could show people MY BUCKFASTLEIGH POND
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Sadly all the ponds have gone in Devon, only fountains remain. Shame.Peter Mabey wrote:I'd like to buy a small water feature in Devon, so I could show people MY BUCKFASTLEIGH POND
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Peter Mabey said: MY BUCKFASTLEIGH POND
Is that the longest sentence using different letters?
Is that the longest sentence using different letters?
GR MSL GNDT MSS NGVWL SRND NNLYC NNCT
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A contrived newspaper headline about the failed theft of a large block of stone from a Welsh valley read:
Quartz Glyph Job Vex'd Cwm Finks
which is probably just about as good an attempt at a 26-letter sentence as possible.
The longest placename in the UK that I know of is Bricklehampton, Worcestershire. 14 letters.
Quartz Glyph Job Vex'd Cwm Finks
which is probably just about as good an attempt at a 26-letter sentence as possible.
The longest placename in the UK that I know of is Bricklehampton, Worcestershire. 14 letters.
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Re: Longest Word using different letters
There are 26 letters in English, so the longest word using different letters can have no more than 26 letters. Your task is to find the longest word using 26 different letters, then 25, and so on.
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Er what the fuck?Dmitry Goretsky wrote:There are 26 letters in English, so the longest word using different letters can have no more than 26 letters. Your task is to find the longest word using 26 different letters, then 25, and so on.
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Is Dmitry Goretsky related to Jason Larson?Kirk Bevins wrote:Er what the fuck?Dmitry Goretsky wrote:There are 26 letters in English, so the longest word using different letters can have no more than 26 letters. Your task is to find the longest word using 26 different letters, then 25, and so on.
GR MSL GNDT MSS NGVWL SRND NNLYC NNCT
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Re: Longest Word using different letters
I believe the name for the type of word you seek is an isogram. Wikipedia provides a rather long list. The longest I can find are:
For 17:
subdermatoglyphic
For 16:
uncopyrightables
For 15:
misconjugatedly, uncopyrightable, dermatoglyphics, hydropneumatics
For 17:
subdermatoglyphic
For 16:
uncopyrightables
For 15:
misconjugatedly, uncopyrightable, dermatoglyphics, hydropneumatics
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Re: Longest Word using different letters
14:
ambidextrously
ambidextrously
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Re: Longest Word using different letters
1:
Partridge in a peartree
Partridge in a peartree