# Qwerty **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 12, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qwerty/692926 "2014-07-12T11:51:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qwerty/692926/1 "2014-07-12T11:51:37Z")
Is it true that typewriter is the longest English word that can be composed using only the top row of the QWERTY board? Saw that on another board and it just seems so pat. ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qwerty/692926/2 "2014-07-12T12:20:47Z")
The other one is “perpetuity” ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qwerty/692926/3 "2014-07-12T12:42:08Z")
Well, that was fast! Thanks… ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qwerty/692926/4 "2014-07-14T00:07:30Z")
The type line is good _Territory_ for _power_ words. PEWTERWORT PIROUETTER PIRQUETTER REPETITORY TYPEWRITER The above list doesn’t contain any queerity extension words… you might say its prequeerity. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qwerty/692926/5 "2014-07-14T00:16:54Z")
Oh , here’s an 11 letter word… PROTEROTYPE … so typewriter is not equal first… ? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qwerty/692926/6 "2014-07-14T01:19:20Z")
I am designing a new kind of typewriter that will be built in such a logical way that, like the [Deacon’s Masterpiece](http://www.eldritchpress.org/owh/shay.html), it should last for 100 years, or forever, whichever is longer. I have a preliminary model almost ready for its first test drive. It’s a protoperpetuitypewriter. ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qwerty/692926/7 "2014-07-14T02:58:38Z")
I once read a whimsical suggestion that the entire top row in the order in which it’s set out – QWERTYUIOP – would make a good word in its own right. Namely, an onomatopoeic term for a corkscrew: “Qw…ert” would be the sound of the cork being – with some exertion – loosened, and starting to come out; and “Yui-op !” the triumphant sound of the cork actually being extracted, with a squeak and a pop. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qwerty/692926/8 "2014-07-14T03:09:57Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > It’s a protoperpetuitypewriter. Is there an app for that?