Author Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000-word novel without once using the letter ‘E’!

4000 new words are added to the dictionary every year!

The most commonly used letter in the English language is 'E': it appears in approximately 11% of all words and is 57 times more common than 'Q'!. 

‘Queueing’ is the only word with five consecutive vowels: perfect for playing hangman!

Month, orange, silver, and purple do not rhyme with any other word

At 45 letters, “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” - a type of lung disease – is the longest word in the English language

There are 7 ways to spell the sound ‘ee’ in English. This sentence contains all of them: ‘He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas’

At 15 letters, ‘uncopyrightable’ is the longest word containing no repeating letters

At 8 letters, ‘aegilops’ is the longest word in English with all its letters in alphabetical order

At 6 letters, ‘eunoia’ is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels

Dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends in the letters ‘MT’

At 10 letters, ‘scraunched’ is the longest one syllable word in the English language.

At 3 letters, the shortest sentence in the English language is ‘I am’

At 7 letters, the longest word in the English language, without a vowel, is ‘rhythms’