what is the longest word than can be typed only on the top row of keys on a keyboard. the row "qwertyuiop"
2007-09-19 13:15:42 · 16 answers · asked by •▐☺xXxHäV☼KxXx☺▐ • 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
I think "typewriter" is the longest commonly used word.
However .....
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.
Interesting!
2007-09-19 13:24:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess you have a lot of points. I know how it feels trying to come up with a question that means anything. Sometimes it's hopeless, just entirely without meaning at all.
EDIT: Sorry, I didn't even try to come up with words. I know some folks have a thesuarus and many other tools right at their fingertips, and I only have the ancient little brain and an old and tattered dictionary... oh, and the MSN encyclopedia. There may be more but this computer is still a new-fangled contraption to me...
2007-09-19 20:58:18 · answer #2 · answered by LK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
typewriter !!
"Common words of ten letters that can be spelled solely with the top line of letters on a QWERTY keyboard include perpetuity, proprietor, repertoire and, fittingly, typewriter (though this may have been a deliberate goal driving the design of the QWERTY layout[citation needed]). There are at least two eleven-letter words, both rare: proterotype and rupturewort."
2007-09-19 20:43:38 · answer #3 · answered by Beardo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Typewriter
2007-09-19 20:25:44 · answer #4 · answered by James 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uropyoureter (a collection of urine & pus in the ureter)
2007-09-19 20:30:52 · answer #5 · answered by Fuzzy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
quiet poetry (using each letter only once)
priority property properer requite rewrite pewter (using them more than once)
2007-09-19 20:22:56 · answer #6 · answered by Red Gold 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your right, I don't know it, and I'm not going to lose any sleep over thinking about it!
2007-09-19 20:21:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have far too much time on your hands
2007-09-19 20:20:08 · answer #8 · answered by Nicole 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you weren't allowed to go backwards, it would be QUIP.
2007-09-19 20:28:04 · answer #9 · answered by greebyc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hfhg
2007-09-22 09:32:11 · answer #10 · answered by ludachris_knight 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋