Longest word in English

Did you know there's a super long word without repeats in English?

Imagine you're playing Scrabble with friends and you're stuck because you can't find a long word that fits your tiles.

The longest word without repeating letters in English is 'uncopyrightable', a 15-letter marvel. Imagine fitting this word into your Scrabble rack.

Example

You have tiles for 'un', 'c', 'o', 'p', 'e', 'r', 'i', 't', 'a', 'b', 'l', 'e', and you can spell 'uncopyrightable'.

Remember this

The longest word without repeating letters in English is 'uncopyrightable'.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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