From A-z, Strange (Mostly) English Words with Many Repeated Letters
A look at words that have the most repeated letters, starting from A and finishing at Z.
Galatasaray
Has five A’s and it is the name of a Turkish football team.
Bibble-babble
Has six B’s and all it means is babble/idle talk.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Has six C’s and is just a famously long word for a respiratory disease.
Dodecahemidodecahedron
Has five D’s and it is a non conconvex uniform polyhedron.
Ethylenediaminetetraacetate
Has seven E’s. The widely used abbreviation is EDTA. It is an acid, an amino acid. It is also used as a drug
Riffraff
Has four F’s and it means undesirable people, or a group of people, regarded as disreputable or worthless.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlllantysiliogogogoch
Has seven G’s and is a famously long Welsh placename. The short name is Llanfair PG and it can be found on the island of Anglesey in Wales.
High-Churchmanship
Has five H’s and it means nothing but the state of being a High-Churchman. It is usually used as a faction of the Anglican Church.
Floccinaucinihilipilification
Has nine I’s and it means “the estimation of something as valueless.”
Jejunojejunostomy
Has four J’s and it is a surgical procedure carried out on the intestine.
Knickknack
Has four K’s and it usually means an ornamental trinket or gimcrack.
Llullaillaco
Has six L’s and it is a mountain on the Andes.
Mammogram
Has four M’s and it is a form of breast x-ray to find different types of tumors or cysts.
Nonannouncement
Has six N’s. It is very rare as we usually use no announcement and that is exactly what it means.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Has nine O’s and it is another respiratory disease.
Whippersnapper
Has four P’s and it is a young, impertinent person.
Albuquerque
Has two Q’s and it is a city in New Mexico.
Refrigerator
Has four R’s and as everybody knows it is an appliance to keep the food cool.
Possessionlessness
Has eight S’s and it is the state of being without possessions.
Tittle-tattle
Has six T’s. A good one here, it means gossip…
Humuhumumukunukuapua’a
Has nine U’s and it is a fish, a Hawaiian fish.
Ovoviviparous
Has three V’s and it means producing eggs that are hatched within the body, so that the young are born alive but without placental attachment, as certain reptiles or fishes.
Wow-wow
Has four W’s and it is a commonly used word and it is a type of gibbon.
Hexahydroxycyclohexane
Has three X’s and it is a chemical compound, also a part of the vitamin B complex.
Polysyndactyly
Has four Y’s and it is a webbing of the hands or feet.
Zenzizenzizenzic
Has six Z’s and it is the eighth power or exponent of a number. The term was suggested by Robert Recorde, a 16th century Welsh writer of Mathematics books.
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Post CommentBorys
On February 24, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Great job dude!!
maira
On September 22, 2008 at 5:55 pm
make shorter words
feebleminded
On December 9, 2008 at 6:32 pm
great. gonna bite your tongue in pronouncing those words