What is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard?

Answer 1

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Actually, as neat as it would be, the answer is NOT "typewriter"

The longest words are TWELVE letters long (see below).

But looking a "typewriter" for a moment. If this WERE the "longest word" at 10 letters, it would be tied with these common words:

perpetuity, proprietor, repertoire

And also with these rarer words --

pepperroot, pepperwort, pirouetter, prerequire, pretorture, tetterwort

(all found at:

http://dictionary.reference.com/ )

But there are also 11 and 12-letter words.

The only one of these that is common/familiar is "teetertotter" (though some dismiss it because it is often spelled with a hyphen)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_Engli...

But here are others, both listed at dictionary.com

11 letters: rupturewort

12 letters: proterotype

The following link, and others like it written to answer your very question, lists many of the words above, as well as another 10-letter word --"repetitory"-- and two more 12-letter word:

pituitotrope, uropyoureter

http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words8.html

(It also lists the 10-letter word "pewterwort", but I think that's a typo for "peterwort")

Answer 2

If you can not repeat the letters, then it's "EQUITY"

Some people may want to include "POIUYT",a word coined by the staff writers and artists at Mad magazine in the 60's to describe an optical illusion figure which was used throughout their magazine.

Source(s): myself

Answer 3

typewriter