what is the rarest word in the english dictionary?

Question

a list of long and complicated word in the english dictionary.... looking for googlewhacks!.

Answer 1

The hardest word surely is *sorry* so many people have difficulty in saying it.

Answer 2

Antidisestablishmentarianismist:

A supporter of the doctrine or political position that opposes the withdrawal of state recognition of an established church; - used especially concerning the Anglican Church in England. Opposed to disestablishmentarianism

Floccinaucinihilipilification:

The act or habit of estimating or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation.

With 29 letters, it is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which presents it "as enumerated in a well-known rule from the Eton Latin Grammar". The OED dates its first use in literature at 1741 in William Shenstone's Works in Prose and Verse: "I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money".

Answer 3

I cannot get into the regular Oxford English Dictionary online, because it requires a subscription. However, here is what the Compact Oxford Dictionary says: • noun offensive a black person. — USAGE The word n****r is very offensive and should not be used. — ORIGIN from Spanish ***** ‘black’.

Answer 4

Zugzwang.

Answer 5

Eidolon... It means darkness or shadow or phantom.. something like that... I can't find it in my dictionary... but it's in my thesaurus

Answer 6

Disrespect. I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Answer 7

I think they're all listed only once.

Answer 8

Raw.

Answer 9

extinct

Answer 10

Sorry, but it is that rare, I can't find it !!!!!!!!