“Stewardess” is the longest common word typed with only the left hand. “Aftercataracs” and “tesseradecades” are the longest obscure words at 14 characters. “Lollipop” is the longest word typed with only the right hand, but “Johnny-Jump-Up” is the longest with dashes. Other oddities include “leptotrichosis” for alternating hands, “bookkeeping” and “bookkeeper” for consecutive double letters, “in coda” for consecutive vowels, and “latchstring” for consecutive consonants.
“Stewardess” is perhaps the longest common word that can only be typed with the left hand. If you look at the more obscure words, however, you’ll find that “aftercataracs” and “tesseradecades” are the longest words at 14 characters. Using only your right hand, the longest word you can type is “lollipop” but if you allow dashes, then “Johnny-Jump-Up” – a type of flower – becomes the longest word you can type with just the right hand button. Other words you can only type with your left hand are “retweet,” “gazette,” “gum,” and “seatbelt.” Other right-wing words include “namesake,” “unholy,” “polyp,” and “monopoly.”
Other word oddities:
The longest word you can type by alternating hands is “leptotrichosis,” which is an outdated term for those diseases caused by the Leptothrix bacterium.
The only two English words with three consecutive sets of double letters are “bookkeeping” and “bookkeeper.”
“In coda” is the only word with five consecutive vowels; the word with the most consonants in a row is “latchstring”.
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