The Fours
Well ever since my 9th grade English teacher brought up a point that it’s hard to find a word with 4 vowels or consonants in a row, I’ve been on a mission to hunt them down. I’ve thought of about 4-5 over the past few years but I’ve never had a place to write them down. I guess you found out where I’m keeping them now.
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June 9th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Check out this place: http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_consecutive_letters.html
June 9th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
ANGSTS is the shortest word with five consonants in a row
June 9th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
Some common words with an uninterrupted string of five consonants are BACKSPLASH, BACKSTRETCH, BACKSTROKE, BIRTHPLACE, BREASTSTROKE, DOWNSTREAM, DOWNTHRUST, DUMBSTRUCK, EIGHTHS, ERSTWHILE, HEARTTHROB, LENGTHS, LIGHTPROOF, MATCHSTICK, NIGHTCLOTHES, NIGHTCLUB, NIGHTDRESS, POSTSCRIPT, STRENGTHS, THOUSANDTHS, THUMBSCREW, TWELFTHS, WARMTHS, and WITCHCRAFT. ANGSTS is the shortest word with five consonants in a row.
These words have six consecutive consonants: ARCHCHRONICLER, CATCHPHRASE, ESCHSCHOLTZIA, HANTZSCHIA, KNIGHTSBRIDGE, LATCHSTRING, POSTPHTHISIC, and WELTSCHMERZ. A popular staple food in Ukraine is a beetroot soup called borsch, which occurs in English dictionaries with a variety of spellings including borshch and borscht, giving rise to plurals containing a string of six consonants: BORSHCHS and BORSCHTS.
HIRSCHSPRUNG’S (DISEASE) has seven consecutive consonants, as does SCHTSCHUROWSKIA. The shortest such word is TSKTSKS. All of these words can be found in major English dictionaries.