11 Comments → Funny-Looking Words

1. Professor Twitmore F. Twatface November 7, 2006 at 3:03 pm

   Do not forget

   Kumquat

   Gazebo

   Sackbutt

   Despair…heh….despair….hee hee hee
2. Tom Hartley November 8, 2006 at 12:02 am

   mandate
3. Professor Twitmore F. Twatface November 13, 2006 at 3:10 pm

   How about nostril? Ointment? I think I am fixated much more on the sound than the look…
4. Professor Twitmore F. Twatface September 9, 2007 at 8:23 am

   Oh, I found one the other day:
   Nosegay
   How about that?
5. Professor Twitmore F. Twatface September 12, 2007 at 9:31 am

   Yurt?
6. bevy February 6, 2008 at 10:38 am

   I LOVE buttress!
7. CARPER August 20, 2008 at 4:21 am

   moustache

   catawampus
8. Becka August 4, 2010 at 11:22 am

   I think “chiffchaff” looks funny xD Four F:s! 🙂
9. The Guv March 17, 2011 at 9:48 am

   The longest non-scientific word in the English language:

   Floccinaucinihilipilification.

   BEST. WORD. EVER.
10. Jincy March 17, 2011 at 10:03 am

    Yes, it’s very long, but it’s not as funny-looking as “toom.” A funny-looking word is a word you can stare at and get lost in. I can’t do that with floccinaucinihilipilification. One glimpse and I want to look away. Also (according to 5 minutes worth of internet “research,” which I realize is hardly exhaustive), this very long word seems to be have been coined in order to be impressively long, not in order to be of use.
11. Lauren November 12, 2013 at 8:30 am

    Floccinaucinihilipilification is such a long word even google translate refuses to say it! XD