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longest english word with unque letters - Skaperen - Apr-18-2019

what is the longest English word with all unique letters, that is, no duplicate letters. an example is "junkyard". "bar" fits the definition, too, but "junkyard" is longer. anything longer that? i know there is. so, what is the longest? a long word that does not fit the definition is "misinterpretations". there are a few duplicate letters in there, such as "i", "s", "n", "t", "e" and "r".

RE: longest english word with unque letters - ichabod801 - Apr-18-2019

I get ambidextrously, but I suppose it depends on your dictionary.

RE: longest english word with unque letters - Skaperen - Apr-18-2019

we have winner!

RE: longest english word with unque letters - nilamo - Apr-22-2019

Using this: https://github.com/dwyl/english-words
I found cloth-measuring to be the biggest.

>>> biggest = ''
>>> with open('words.txt') as f:
...   for line in f:
...     if len(line) == len(set(line)):
...       if len(line) > len(biggest):
...         biggest = line
...
>>> biggest
'cloth-measuring\n'
Not sure if hyphenated words count, though.

RE: longest english word with unque letters - Yoriz - Apr-22-2019

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/longest-word-with-no-repeated-letter Wrote:What is the longest English word which doesn't repeat a letter?
There are two 15-letter words that meet this criterion: uncopyrightable, referring to something for which it is not possible to secure copyright, and dermatoglyphics, meaning 'the study of skin markings'.


RE: longest english word with unque letters - Skaperen - Apr-22-2019

(Apr-22-2019, 09:09 PM)nilamo Wrote: Not sure if hyphenated words count, though.
they count if you want them to.

RE: longest english word with unque letters - ichabod801 - Apr-23-2019

I say the max is 16: uncopyrightabled (having been made into something that cannot be copyrighted).

RE: longest english word with unque letters - Skaperen - Apr-23-2019

(Apr-23-2019, 12:29 AM)ichabod801 Wrote: I say the max is 16: uncopyrightabled (having been made into something that cannot be copyrighted).

your vocabulary is definitely better than mine.

RE: longest english word with unque letters - Yoriz - Apr-23-2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogram Wrote:An isogram (also known as a "nonpattern word") is a logological term for a word or phrase without a repeating letter. It is also used by some people to mean a word or phrase in which each letter appears the same number of times, not necessarily just once. Conveniently, the word itself is an isogram in both senses of the word, making it autological.
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Examples

17 letters
  • subdermatoglyphic
16 letters
  • uncopyrightables
15 letters
  • dermatoglyphics
  • hydropneumatics
  • misconjugatedly
  • uncopyrightable
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RE: longest english word with unque letters - Skaperen - Apr-24-2019

i have used a 10 letter one since my days in college to obscure things like my CC numbers where i need to write them down.