| The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
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| No word in the English language rhymes with month.
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| "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
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| The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
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| The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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| "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
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| There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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| The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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| There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
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| Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
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| When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
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| There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
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| No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
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| The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
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| "Strengths" is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
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| "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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| "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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