Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by gyosifov » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

Zenzizenzizenzic
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Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by not_a_bot_4sho » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

Waiting for an AI startup to create a phononym of this, in the same vein as Google did...

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by graypegg » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 10:03 PM UTC

> …it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED.

I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by lbo462 » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC

That is actually pretty cool

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by Sparkle-san » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

graypegg wrote: post #3

> …it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED. I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha

Scrabble only comes with one Z, so some of those are gonna have be sideways N's.

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by conradludgate » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 10:12 PM UTC

graypegg wrote: post #3

> …it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED. I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha

With one Z tile and 2 blanks...

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by AStrangeMorrow » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC

Someone watched “The rest is Science” I imagine!

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by marceldegraaf » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 10:18 PM UTC

Ah, I see someone has listened to "The Rest is Science" recently. Great podcast with Michael Stevens (VSauce) and Hannah Fry (the mathematician)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-5lQ2mzuw

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by sublinear » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 10:23 PM UTC

> dating from a time when powers were written out in words rather than as superscript numbers ... he wrote that it "doeth represent the square of squares squaredly".

This is a great example of why bad naming conventions are a "smell". It strongly implies that the solution does not yet fully understand the problem it's trying to solve.

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by darth_aardvark » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC

graypegg wrote: post #3

> …it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED. I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha

In addition to the Z's everyone else pointed out, Scrabble boards are 15 tiles across. This is 16 letters. You fool. You utter gumdrop.