Lists of English words

The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as the act of estimating (something) as worthless, its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. ...more on Wikipedia about "English words with uncommon properties"

:Gry is also an obsolete unit of measurement, equal to 1/10 of a line, which is in turn 1/12 of an inch. Hence, a gry is 1/120 inch or about 0.212 mm. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gry"

An inherently funny word is a word which native speakers often find to be funny, for reasons ranging from onomatopoeia to sexual innuendo. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inherently funny word"

This is an incomplete list of English words formed from the suffix -meter. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of -meters"

:See also main article: American and British English differences ...more on Wikipedia about "List of American English words not used in British English"

This is a list of archaic English words and their modern equivalents. These words and spellings are now considered archaic or obsolescent within the current status of the English language. Given both the rapidity of change in modern English and the number of versions used by nations and cultures, it should be borne in mind that dates are approximate and that the information here may not apply to all versions of English. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of archaic English words and their modern equivalents"

; bollocks^* (originally ballocks) : balls^* (testicles); verbal garbage (as in "you're talking bollocks"). The somewhat similar bollix is found in American English, but without the anatomical conotations or vulgar sense, meaning 'mess up'. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of British English words not used in American English"

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Although some pairs, such as march and March, are completely unrelated, in other cases, such as august and catholic, the capitalized form is a name which is etymologically related to the uncapitalized form. For example, August derives from the name of Imperator Augustus, who named himself after the word augustus, whence English august. And both Catholic and catholic derive from a Greek adjective meaning "universal". Pairs in which one word is simply a secondary meaning of the other – e.g. Masonry (secret society), which is essentially a peculiar use of the word masonry (wall building) – are omitted. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of case sensitive English words"

This is a list of common misspellings in the English language. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of common misspellings in English"

This is a list of commonly confused homonyms, including both homophones — words with the same pronunciation — and homographs — words with the same spelling. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of commonly confused homonyms"

This is a list of common apocopations in the English language. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of English apocopations"

** (n) There is a time, when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence, nor obtain protection. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of English homographs"

It is often said that in English the letter q must always be followed by the letter u. While this is true in the vast majority of cases, there are some exceptions. The majority of these are naturalised from Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew or other languages which do not use the English alphabet, with q representing a sound not found in English. For example, qi is pronounced as pinyin uses ‹q› to represent the sound , which sounds like to English speakers. In other examples, q represents , such as in qat and faqir, and alternative spellings are accepted which use k in place of q. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of English words containing Q not followed by U"

This is a list of words for sounds made by objects: ...more on Wikipedia about "List of English words for sounds" Please visit again shortopedia shortopedia

A list of English language words derived from Celtic languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of English words of Celtic origin"

Some non-English words have become "naturalized" into the English language and the accents and other diacritics are generally no longer used (for example "à propos", which lost both the accent and space to become "apropos"). Many of the words below are also in the process of losing their accents but can be found in print in both their accented and unaccented versions. Other words are still most often found with their accents, often to help indicate pronunciation (e.g. frappé, naïve, soufflé), or to help distinquish them from an unaccented English word (e.g. exposé, résumé, rosé). And in some cases, the only correct English spelling (as given by the OED and other dictionaries) requires the diacritic (e.g., soupçon). ...more on Wikipedia about "List of English words with diacritics"

* Aggravate - some prescriptivists have argued that this word should not be used in the sense of "to annoy" or "to oppress", but only to mean "to make worse". However, this proscription against "to annoy" is not rooted in history: the "annoy" usage occurs in English as far back as the 17th century. Furthermore, in Latin, from which the word was borrowed, both meanings were used. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of English words with disputed usage"

An eponymous adjective is an adjective which has been derived from the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been derived are called eponyms. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of eponymous adjectives in English"

Here is a list of eponyms: ...more on Wikipedia about "List of eponyms"

(List of frequently misused English words) * Accept and except. While they both sound similar, except is a preposition that means "apart from", while accept is a verb that means "agree with", "take in" or "receive". Except is also rarely used as a verb, meaning to leave out. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of frequently misused English words"

Homophones are words that have the same sound but different meanings (and may or may not have different spellings). This list consists exclusively of homophones that have a different spelling. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of homophones"

:Main text: Adjectives of relation. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of non-standard English adjectives"

The longest English word of one syllable (in some dialects) is the ten-letter squirreled, as in "I've squirreled away my nuts for the winter." According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the ten-letter scraunched, appearing in a 1620 translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote, is also a very long word for being only a single syllable. It is a largely obsolete form of scrunched or crunched. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of the longest English words with one syllable"

Most three-letter English words are only one syllable long; however, there are certain exceptions such as emu and era. This is the list of three-letter English words. The list does not include acronyms. See TLA for this. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of three-letter English words"

The English language contains various two-letter words. The number is reduced somewhat by the three letter rule. Here is a list of such words. Some of these words are debatable, because they are archaic, slang, proper names, or words borrowed from other languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of two-letter English words"

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