Most Hard-to-Pronounce Words in the English Language

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Anathema — that is, someone or something intensely disliked.

As in, I have been anathema throughout my life from my earliest memory.

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Anemone

Do you know what it means?

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Antarctic

So far I can pronounce all of these just fine, how about you?

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Antidisestablishmentarianism

For most people, it's the longest word they know. For others, it's a bona fide tongue twister at a whopping total 28 letters and 13 syllables. (Psst, it means being opposed to the withdrawal of state support from an established church.)

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Asterisk

Linguists know that pesky metathesis makes this typographical symbol hard to say. Metathesis? That's when people accidentally rearrange sounds or syllables in a word, like a toddler saying spaghetti as "pasketti." In this case, it's the final S and the K that do a little switcheroo, coming out as "asteriks."

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Brewery

If you can't pronounce this one, do you have to turn in hour man card? I would say, yes, yes you do.

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Cavalry

Metathesis strikes again! It doesn't help that many people also confuse cavalry (armed forces on horseback) with the place Calvary, as in the Bible.

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Comfortable

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Defibrillator

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Deteriorate

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Explicit

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Exponentially

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February

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Floccinaucinihilipilification

At 29 letters, floccinaucinihilipilification has earned the unofficial title of the longest non-technical word in the English language. Don't let its length fool you. It simply means the act or habit of estimating something as worthless.

Now this one I did not know how to pronounce, nor would I want to. Even the online vocal pronunciation of this sounds like it is slurred.

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Ignominious

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Isthmus

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Library

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Massachusetts

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Often

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Onomatopoeia

I find this one to be easy.

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Otorhinolaryngological

Forget it. ENT doctor

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Phenomenon

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Rural

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Schadenfreude

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Sesquipedalian

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Sixth

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Specific

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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Pronounce it without singing it, I can, can you spell it, I can.

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Synecdoche

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Temperature