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Facetious and teetotaler are two English words with all vowels in alphabetical order. Other examples include anemic, cesium, annelid, and arsenic. “Set” has the most definitions, “underground” begins and ends with “und,” and some words like orange have no direct rhymes.
The word facetious is one of the few words in the English language that has all the vowels in alphabetical order. Another is a teetotaler. Other less common words that fall into this category include acheilous, anemic, cesium, annelid, and arsenic. If you add a “ly” to the end of these words, you get all the vowels in order, plus the vowel “y” sometimes.
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The word with the most definitions in the English language is “set”.
The only word in English that begins and ends with the letters “und” is underground.
In addition to orange, there are several words in the English language that do not have direct rhymes: silver, nona and marathon, among others.
