# The longest word u can create on the top row of a QWERTY keyboard is.............. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2002, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342 "2002-07-11T00:57:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/1 "2002-07-11T00:57:39Z")
typewriter! ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/2 "2002-07-11T01:19:19Z")
Also at 10 letters pepperwort, prerequire, pretorture, proprietor, and repertoire. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/3 "2002-07-11T01:53:29Z")
And you can spell ‘stewardess’ using only the letters from the left side of the keyboard! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/4 "2002-07-11T01:57:49Z")
dan: you can get two more letters (and fire up lesbian porn fantasies) by writing STEWARDESSES. The fact that you need only one hand is a fringe benefit. ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/5 "2002-07-11T02:16:06Z")
Submitted for your perusal: [A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia](http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words8.html) concurs with **KidCharlemagne** on his TYPEWRITER comment, but also suggests the nonstandard TEETERTOTTER (it’s normally hyphenated) as an alternate. Incidentally, AFTERCATARACTS (plural for a condition that sometimes follows cataract surgery), TESSERADECADES and TETRASTEARATES are the longest words which can be typed using only the fingers of the left hand. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/6 "2002-07-11T02:35:50Z")
How about the right side of the keyboard? ::hmm:: opinion…minion…monopoly… ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/7 "2002-07-11T16:02:42Z")
and I thought i was the only freak. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/8 "2002-07-11T16:09:05Z")
You’ve been here over a year and you still thought you were the only freak? Have you been hiding in the ATMB forum or what? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/9 "2002-07-11T16:13:25Z")
What, you mean **qwertyuiop** is not a word? ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/10 "2002-07-11T16:13:42Z")
How 'bout “powertripper” is that a word? If not, it is now. 12 letters…hot damn…I’m THE MAN. Now go get me a beer. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/11 "2002-07-11T16:47:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zut \* > \*\*Submitted for your perusal: > Incidentally, AFTERCATARACTS (plural for a condition that sometimes follows cataract surgery), TESSERADECADES and TETRASTEARATES are the longest words which can be typed using only the fingers of the left hand. \*\* What do either of the latter 2 words mean? ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/12 "2002-07-11T17:39:20Z")
actually… its: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE…P! ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/13 "2002-07-11T17:44:50Z")
Man that was freaky! All of you replyers had posted between the time I read the OP and finished posting! ---
**Author:** ![Jpeg\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/14 "2002-07-11T18:11:57Z")
> [@](#): > > actually… > > its: > > EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Coincidentally, this is also the longest word that can be spelled using only the letter E. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/15 "2002-07-11T18:13:43Z")
I always found typing “pleasing” to be pleasing. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/16 "2002-07-12T00:24:33Z")
::Whistles innocently and then stops.:: Oh, wait…it looks like I dropped my bag of nice [rupturewort.](http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=rupturewort) Which, incidentally, has **11** letters. I wonder if that has anything to do with the top row of a normal QWERTY keyboard? ::And then runs like hell!:: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![c\_carol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@c\_carol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_carol)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/17 "2002-07-12T03:15:18Z")
> [@](#): > > pretorture Maybe not the longest, but that certainly is an _interesting_ word. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/18 "2002-07-12T03:26:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by c\_carol \* > \*\* > > Maybe not the longest, but that certainly is an _interesting_ word. \*\* [Mini-Slight-Not So Much-Kinda Not At All–Hijack] It _is_ an interesting word…except, what’s the point of it? I mean, why torture someone before you go an torture him? According to [this reference](http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=pretorture) it means to torture beforehand. Before what? More torture? How can you torture before you torture? Just curious, ya’ know, 'cause I got me here some black leather gloves, and a rack…and I wanna get started soon. [/Mini-Slight-Not So Much-Kinda Not At All–Hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/19 "2002-07-12T04:04:51Z")
I got some for ya: **UTOPIERITY** (n): 1. A made up word, defining the possessive state of being in a veritable utopia. Note, we said _veritable_ utopia. **TURTIQUE** 1. (n) Another made up word defining an early art form of primitive Rennaissance cultures relating to the turtle or tortoise. 2. (adj) Something slow and obtuse. **QUEUEPETIQUE** 1. (adj) Yet a tertiary made up word, describing a line of people that may _seem_ like a queue, but really isn’t. Tripler Trust me on these, they exist in _my_ vocabulary. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342/20 "2002-07-12T05:28:14Z")
Huh. I’ve only got function keys on the top row of my keyboard. I can’t spell a damn thing with them. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-word-u-can-create-on-the-top-row-of-a-qwerty-keyboard-is/118342.md?page=2)