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ok then... how about "trickkk" ?
here's some other werdball trivia:
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
The second longest word in the English language is antidisestablishmenterianism.
The longest muscle name is the "levator labii superioris alaeque nasi".
There are ten human body parts that are only three-letters long: eye, ear, leg, arm, jaw, gum, toe, lip, hip, rib.
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
The only word in the English language with only one vowel which occurs five times is "Indivisibility".
The oldest word in the English language is "town".
The words "Facetious" and "Abstemious" contain all the vowels in the correct order.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
"Strengths" is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words from it without rearranging any of the letters: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
"Bookkeeping" and "bookkeeper(s)" are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters.
When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel; breakfast + lunch = brunch), the new word is called a "portmanteau".
The letters H, I, O, X in the latin alphabet is the only ones that look the same if you turn them upside down or see them from behind.
The dot above the letter "i" is called a tittle.
There is actually a word for a 64th note: a hemidemisemiquaver.
One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is "typewriter".
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan".
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The word "Alma mater" means bountiful mother.
The plastic thing on the end of shoelaces are called "aglets".
The word "Boondocks" comes from the Tagalog word "Bundok", which means mountain.
The word "rodent" comes from the Latin word "rodere" meaning to gnaw.
The word "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
The "Baby Ruth" candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
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The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhaka tangihangakoauauotamate aturipukakapikimaunga horonukupo kaiwhenuakita natahu, a New Zealand hill.
Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A.".
There was once a town named "6" in West Virginia.
There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
The language Malayalam, spoken in parts of India, is the only language whose name is a palindrome.
If you are from Glasgow, you are a Glaswegian.
If you are from Birmingham, you are a Brummie.
Inhabitants of the island of Lesbos are not "Lesbians". They are "Lesbotians".
The Red Sea was originally the Reed Sea.
The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is "angstschreeuw".
The "D" in D-day means "Day". The French term for "D-day" is "J-jour".
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The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet Of The Apes was "Smile".
The term "Mayday" used for signalling help comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "Mayday" and means, "Help Me".
S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls". It was just chosen by the 1908 International Conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S=dot, dot, dot and O=dash, dash, dash.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names: Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.
KGB stands for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan".
AM and PM stand for "Ante-Meridian" and "Post-Meridian", respectively, and AD actually stands for "Anno Domini" rather than "After Death".
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Charles de Gaulle's final words were "It Hurts".
The chemical formula for Rubidium Bromide is RbBr. It is the only chemical formula known to be a palindrome!
The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spells the name "JASON".
The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (e.g. Asia, Europe).
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A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as flink.
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
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A whale's penis is called a dork.
Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone called a baculum.
A Holstein's spots are like fingerprints - no two cows have the same pattern of spots.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint. No two lions have the same pattern of whiskers |
