What is the longest word you can make from the top line of your keyboard?

Question

All answers must be legitamate words in the English language. The longest I can remember is 10 letters but there is an 11 letter word but just cannot remember what it is.

Answer 1

I need clarification.
Should we use the American keyboard (QWERTYUIOP) or the European keyboard (AZERTYUIOP)???



TYPEWRITER (10 letters) can be typed using only the top row of keys on a standard keyboard. Other ten-letter words with this property are PEPPERROOT, PEPPERWORT, PERPETUITY, PEWTERWORT, PIROUETTER, PREREQUIRE, PRETORTURE, PROPRIETOR, REPERTOIRE, REPETITORY, TETTERWORT. If hyphens are allowed, then TEETER-TOTTER (12 letters) is possible, as is TEETER-TOTTERER (14 letters), although the latter is not found in dictionaries. Another possible 12-letter word, POWERTRIPPER, is also not in any major dictionary.


TYPEWRITER can be typed using only the top row of keys on the keyboard. The following ten-letter words with this feature all appear in W2: PEPPERROOT, PEPPERWORT, PERPETUITY, PEWTERWORT, PIROUETTER, PREREQUIRE, PRETORTURE, PROPRIETOR, REPERTOIRE, REPETITORY, TETTERWORT. These words have also been suggested: PROPRIETORY, PROTEROTYPE, RUPTUREWORT, PITUITOTROPE, UROPYOURETER. Chris Cole (Wordplay) gives TEETERTOTTER, although MWCD10 spells the word with a hyphen. A person who rides a teetertotter would be a TEETERTOTTERER [Stuart Kidd]. A reader of this page suggests POWERTRIPPER, although this word seems not to be in dictionaries. EUROPE and PERU can be typed using only the top row of keys; Europe is the only continent that can be typed using a single row of letters.

Answer 2

Typewriter

Answer 3

Property

Answer 4

There are at least two eleven-letter words, both rare: proterotype and rupturewort.

Among several 10 letter words, there are perpetuity, proprietor, repertoire and, fittingly, typewriter.

Answer 5

Typewriter.

Answer 6

Typewriter

Answer 7

There are absolutely NO ENGLISH words of MORE than TEN letters, available, from the top line, - alone, - of a UK typewriter! Other European, - or U.S., keyboards MAY make this possible, because of a few slight differences, in the configuration, thereof!

Oh, - did I say "TYPEWRITER"?

That REMINDS me, - the word "TYPEWRITER" is the LONGEST word, that you can make, from the top line, - that is just TEN letters long!

Answer 8

UROPYOURETER" meaning 'a collection of urine and pus in the ureter.' 12 letters I win!! here are a few smaller ones too.
repertoire typewriter Proprietory and a few more for laughs

TYPEWRITER, PEPPERROOT, PEPPERWORT, PERPETUITY, PEWTERWORT, PIROUETTER, PREREQUIRE, PRETORTURE, PROPRIETOR, REPERTOIRE, REPETITORY, TETTERWORT, PROPRIETORY, PROTEROTYPE, RUPTUREWORT, PITUITOTROPE, UROPYOURETER.TEETERTOTTER A person who rides a teetertotter would be a TEETERTOTTERER

Answer 9

I take it you can use letters more than once then as there are only 10
I can get quieter

Answer 10

Is that using each letter once or more than once ???

Baz