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Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:14 am
by Marc Meakin
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.
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:59 am
by Dinos Sfyris
Is itUNCOPYRIGHTABLE?
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:08 am
by Peter Mabey
Dinos Sfyris wrote:Is itUNCOPYRIGHTABLE?
Could that be pluralised?
DERMATOGLYPHICS is valid
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:22 am
by Marc Meakin
Dinos Sfyris wrote:Is itUNCOPYRIGHTABLE?
Yes, although Peter's one is valid on Lexplorer.
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:27 am
by James Robinson
Marc Meakin wrote:Dinos Sfyris wrote:Is itUNCOPYRIGHTABLE?
Yes, although Peter's one is valid on Lexplorer.
Both the answers were mentioned in
QI, Series C, Episode 3 a few years ago as the longest words without repetitive letters.
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:01 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Dinos Sfyris wrote:Is itUNCOPYRIGHTABLE?
Unfortunately not, so the answer can't be printed here.
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:15 pm
by Peter Mabey
I'd like to buy a small water feature in Devon, so I could show people MY BUCKFASTLEIGH POND
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:58 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Peter Mabey wrote:I'd like to buy a small water feature in Devon, so I could show people MY BUCKFASTLEIGH POND
Sadly all the ponds have gone in Devon, only fountains remain. Shame.
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:04 am
by Marc Meakin
Peter Mabey said: MY BUCKFASTLEIGH POND
Is that the longest sentence using different letters?
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:15 pm
by David Roe
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.
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 4:53 pm
by Dmitry Goretsky
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.
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:05 pm
by Kirk Bevins
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.
Er what the fuck?
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:37 pm
by Marc Meakin
Kirk Bevins wrote: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.
Er what the fuck?
Is Dmitry Goretsky related to Jason Larson?
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 11:24 am
by Joseph Krol
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
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:26 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
14:
ambidextrously
Re: Longest Word using different letters
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:46 pm
by Gavin Chipper
1:
Partridge in a peartree