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1. What is the most common word in the English language?
The
As
A
We
2. Which of these languages was a base for English?
Chinese
Latin
Ukrainian
Russian
3. How many letters are in the longest English word?
The longest English word is the Chemical name for Titin, which looks like something the scientist who named it’s cat wrote when it fell asleep on their keyboard.
146
45
56
189,819
4. How long does it take to say the longest word in English?
The 189,819 letters and above-mentioned random combination of letters make this word a challenge to say!
1 hour
4 minutes
2-3 hours
50 seconds
5. Which of these words means the same thing as a much shorter word referring to inhaling fine ash and/or dust.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Floccinaucinihilipilification
Incomprehensibilties
6. What is the most-used letter in English?
I
A
E
O
7. What is the least-used letter in English?
V
Q
X
Z
8. Can you make a sentence without the letter a?
For instance, the following sentence does not contain the letter “a”: The dog slept on the couch in the evening since it was extremely tired due to the exercise it did before it went to sleep.
Yes
No
9. How many English words are there in use?
About 170,000
About 50,000
About 32,000
About 400,000
10. How many words are there in English that are not being used?
Thank you for informing me of this, but the longest word in English itself (not in the dictionary because it would take up at least ten pages) is 189,819 letters long. It is the chemical name for Titin, as explained once the quiz is finished. Look it up.