# Tell me some wonderful words. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 15, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181 "2018-06-15T23:19:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/1 "2018-06-15T23:19:57Z")
What are some words with remarkable or interesting patterns of letters? **abstemious** - has the vowels a-e-i-o-u in alphabetical order. **Abstemiously** adds y, if you want to count it as a vowel. **indivisibilities** - the letter I occurs 7 times in 16 letters, with the pattern i–i-i-i-i-i-i– **hijinks** - has the sequence i j i, giving three of those little floating dots in a row. **bookkeeper** - has three double letters in a row, oo-kk-ee. Any others? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/2 "2018-06-15T23:25:47Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > \ **hijinks** - has the sequence i j i, giving three of those little floating dots in a row. \ Likewise Beijing. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/3 "2018-06-15T23:54:32Z")
I would win at hangman with: **strengths** 9 letters only one vowell ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/4 "2018-06-16T00:01:54Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > What are some words with remarkable or interesting patterns of letters? > > **abstemious** - has the vowels a-e-i-o-u in alphabetical order. **Abstemiously** adds y, if you want to count it as a vowel. There are others, he said **facetiously**. **Four** is the only counting number that describes how many letters it has. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/5 "2018-06-16T00:03:32Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > What are some words with remarkable or interesting patterns of letters? > > **abstemious** - has the vowels a-e-i-o-u in alphabetical order. **Abstemiously** adds y, if you want to count it as a vowel. **Facetiously** as well! ETA I love you ninjas! **Sequoia** - shortest with all five vowels. Also four vowels in a row! ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/6 "2018-06-16T00:25:42Z")
“Prime” has five letters, and 5 is a prime number. “Even” has an even number of letters, and “odd” has an odd number of letters. “Post office” has the most letters, by far. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/7 "2018-06-16T00:57:31Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > I would win at hangman with: > > **strengths** > > 9 letters only one vowell Except that n r s T are the four most common consonants so after the guesses A E I O U Y N R S T you’ll have S T R E N \_ T \_ with 5 misses. I think you’d get it fairly easily ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/8 "2018-06-16T01:14:59Z")
Queue has a vowel pair, repeated, which is kind of cool, and is pronounced the same as its first letter is. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/9 "2018-06-16T01:49:15Z")
Kni **ghtsbr** idge has a nice bundle of consonants. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/10 "2018-06-16T02:00:27Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > **Four** is the only counting number that describes how many letters it has. Also, if you repeatedly take any number and replace it with the number of letters in its English name, you’ll always end up with 4. Twenty-seven -\> eleven -\> six -\> three -\> five -\> four -\> four -\> etc. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/11 "2018-06-16T02:03:00Z")
syzygy - The only vowels are three 'y’s ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/12 "2018-06-16T03:14:18Z")
queueing- Five vowels in a row. Liquefy, liquefied, liquefying - all spelled correctly. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/13 "2018-06-16T06:45:34Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > **Four** is the only counting number that describes how many letters it has. There are people who would include tre and cinco on that list. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/14 "2018-06-16T07:02:31Z")
**kine** Plural of cow, but has NONE of the same letters. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/15 "2018-06-16T08:28:58Z")
Regarding German compound words: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gG62zay3kck/maxresdefault.jpg "Rhabarberbarbara") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG62zay3kck) ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/16 "2018-06-16T09:20:48Z")
**Twelve** is the highest number that is a single syllable. Not remarkable I guess but I thought it was a cool factlet. I used to find **rhythm** a good Hangman word. ---
**Author:** ![InsomniaMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ad7895/32.png) [@InsomniaMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsomniaMama)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/17 "2018-06-16T13:13:49Z")
Melödious Lollipop Epidemiology So fun to say. So pleasing to the ear. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/18 "2018-06-16T13:30:58Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > Liquefy, liquefied, liquefying - all spelled correctly. That looks right even though I might not spell them right the first time. _Aqueduct_, on the other hand, once I noticed it, definitely seemed wrong even though it is also spelled correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delicious)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/19 "2018-06-16T13:49:28Z")
Gullible is spelt and pronounced exactly the same in all European languages ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/20 "2018-06-16T13:57:06Z")
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