Malika123   
Feb 18, 2009
| Never thought of it. |
AlexRi3er   
Feb 18, 2009
| What about alpha. it is a word, isn't it? |
Nerine
Feb 18, 2009
| But there was nothing about consecutive letter! Never would have got it otherwise.
Here's a few:
Antidisestablishmentarianism (in dictionary) and
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
(longest medical term, in dictionary)
and
Floccinaucinihilipilification (in dictionary) |
phrebh
Feb 18, 2009
| That's why it's a trick.  |
smcoren  
Feb 18, 2009
| Your teaser is not very clear. You don't mention anything about the letters needing to be consecutive. If it were really a "trick" then the longest word in "The English Alphabet" would be "Alphabet". If you really meant to refer to the spelling of a letter- wouldn't "Double" in double U be the longest word? |
phrebh
Feb 18, 2009
| For those of you who need the large print version of the explanation: the English alphabet is a group of letters from a to z, listed, by definition, in alphabetical order. If you write out the alphabet in one line, the longest word you will find is "ghi". |
here2 
Feb 18, 2009
| How about DEF as in Most Def? Personally, I liked the teaser. I'm a little tired of the tricks that would have given an answer of Alphabet. Plus I learned a new word.
Thanks for the teaser!! |
phrebh
Feb 18, 2009
| I actually looked that up first.  But it wasn't in any of the mainline dictionaries I looked at. |
xdbtcp
Feb 18, 2009
| Thought 'smiles' first (the old joke because it has miles in it), then the hint (i.e. the title) made me think of marriage (til death...) |
narmo3
Feb 18, 2009
| this was a pretty good teaser....but i still dont get how the title was a clue... |
tamjp
Feb 19, 2009
|  that is clever that you saw that word in there-are you a chef?
I do agree with the detractors though. You perhaps should have changed you instructions to add the phrase "found in the alphabet" Good language teaser then. Not as good in trick category.
sorry  |
precious1026
Feb 19, 2009
|  i am stumped, nothing makes sense anymore. The longest word in the Alphabet is ? I want to behave and be accepted, Today. This teaser is confusing, perplexing and lacks logic, yet I want to understand the riddle "your" way. I just don't  See it. |
tamjp
Feb 20, 2009
| narmo
as phrebh said in the answer
ghi (ghee) is clarified butter |
ObamaGirl
Feb 20, 2009
| Wow, I actually get it (and I NEVER get it  ) Good teaser |
jazzyca7
Feb 28, 2009
| i dont get it!  |
JessicaG
Mar 02, 2009
| I agree, this teaser needs to be written a little better I think. I'm not even sure how it got through the moderators actually.
The concept is a good one, but it leave the reader perplexed. |
Kiyoko
Mar 05, 2009
| Yeah, I thought it was "alphabet" too. ^_^; |
reggie57
Apr 03, 2009
| really cute!!!! |
bradon182001
Apr 18, 2009
| You really tricked me. Nice one. Thanks for posting. |
ivrum48786
Apr 23, 2009
| what was the pun in the title's relation to the answer? i'm a little slow i guess. |
mepapa
May 21, 2009
| the pun is that ghi is clarified butter. I get it. def is a new word but it's no longer than ghi..... but in this day and age Def is probably more common. so I would have to agree about the edit on this one... fun is always the key  |
Cindzey
Jun 29, 2009
| I agree with smcoren...
How do you spell w? double yew. dubbau double u |
yanksgirl
Jul 06, 2009
| how come there wasn't anything mentioning consecutive?? you can't assume everyone would interpret the ? the same way |
npf2005
Jul 26, 2009
| Don't assume yanksgirl, bad things might happen
Nice teaser, I enjoyed it even if others didn't |
EdWaRdLuVeR_918
Jul 30, 2009
| Good one! I didn't get it. |
doodinthemood
Sep 02, 2009
| You can get "almost" by covering up bits of the alphabet.
Good question though. |
kittygirl19 
Sep 15, 2009
| ghi yum |
TheBrainBender
Oct 06, 2009
| The teaser didn't mention anything about the letter of the words having to be consecutive. A trick teaser would say that the word 'word' would always be the same length, one can't be longer than the other. That was confusing. |
Wittykittymi
Oct 20, 2009
| I agree with Tamip. You could have used 'found in the alphabet'.... it was a little funny though. and do you know that a title should be mainly related to what you are talking about in your trick? Well... if you think you knew, i think then that I'm really tricked. Harhar. Sorry |
sashomarine
Jan 15, 2010
| Sigh, another one of these longest words... There are always so many answers... |
beyonce123
Feb 15, 2010
| agree with smcoren |
4wheels
Apr 30, 2010
| That was way to hard to get  |
coinjar876
May 10, 2010
| I still don't get it......  |
Benjiboo
Nov 18, 2011
| xdbcp me too |
kitty-cat
Oct 28, 2012
| I thought it was "alphabet," the longest word in "the english alphabet..."  |
