I was just thinking "umbrella" is weird. It just seems so random.
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" sesquipedalian "
Miscellaneous, no one that isn't a native English speaker knows how to pronounce that word
Acknowledge, no one that isn't a native English speaker knows how to write that word
"Fuck"
I think adjective is the only grammar variation it doesn't cover.
Dyslexia - it's hard to spell even if you're not dyslexic.
I think "once" is spelled strangely. In Spanish it's 11 and pronounced as you would expect.
In English the same string of letters is pronounced wonss. Plus the whole once twice thrice for one time two times three times is odd, though at least consistent but then no fourse or anything it just stops.
Onomatopoeia - the word for making a word for a sound
strengths
it breaks so many linguistic rules yet feels just fine to say
Most of the examples here are perfectly cromulent words.
Glossolalia
"Kitsch" is hard to define weird. "Absquatulate" is the weirdest word I use on a semi-regular basis because it just means to leave quickly.
I dunno if it's the weirdest but "pronunciation" is pretty weird.
Why is it "pronUnciation" but "pronOUnce"?
onomatopoeia (edit) - the word should have been something akin to soundsalotlikea but no one consulted me.
noun
- The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
- The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.
- A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle" or "hiss".
Flabbergasted
"Weirdest"
Isthmus. I don't claim to know if it's the weirdest, but it's gotta be one of the most difficult to pronounce!
Vainglorious.
Kumquat
"fine"
because it can mean so many different things, like if you say something is fine, it's not very good, but "fine dining" is fancy and good.
pwn
When I run grep -v "[aeiouy]" /usr/share/dict/words|less
on my system, it's the only non-abbreviation word that comes up that doesn't have a "a", "e", "i", "o", "u", or "y" and is a real word -- like, Mirriam-Webster lists it:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pwn
slang
: to dominate and defeat (someone or something) : OWN sense 1b, ROUT entry 2 sense 1a
Online gamers use "pwn" to describe annihilating an opponent, or owning them. The word came from misspelling "own" by gamers typing quickly and striking the letter P instead of the neighboring letter O.
— Christopher RhoadsNo government, including Britain's, should have the power to pwn the Internet, and destroy it in the process.
— Amie StepanovichWhy pwn the noobs from your couch when you could do it in front of an audience at New York's first-ever Fortnite In The Heights Tournament?
—Eva KisThen, a bunch of federal attorneys general got pwned in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding their prosecution of medical marijuana businesses, which is a pretty big deal.
—Vince Silwoski
That's in the dictionary now? I was there. 4000 years ago. When angry counterstrike players typed too fast and didn't correct their typos.