I don’t think there’s any words that “look handsome” though what I was a kid, the first time I read the word “gobbledygook” I could not stop laughing for at least 5 minutes. Then I had to go look it up in a dictionary (because that was the style at the time).
Higgeldy piggeldy
Titties the double tt looks good on cursive.
How about besotten? Are you?
cipőfűző
The French really like it for some reason. It means shoelaces in Hungarian.
Cipo means “you pussy” in Polish
lloviznar - to drizzle in Spanish. Also feels nice to say.
Yoviznar? How would it sound? I seem to recall LL is pronounced with ye sound.
Exacto
The word bed looks like a bed.
English:
- Obelisk
- Aptitude
- Hamfisted
- Obstreperous
- Peace
Spanish:
- Zapata
- Dos veces
French:
- Pamplemousse
I like the sound of anything in Spanish with a trilled r.
Like perro 🐶.
Mañana is nice sounding too.
I think bookkeeping is a nice, woody word, both visually and spoken
Ah yes, the woody sort of words
and the only english word that has 3 sets of repeating letters back to back afaik
Someone remembers their Encyclopedia Brown!
syzygy
Yeah, love it. very similar vibe, with all the y’s.
Also Gypsy, Myth, Glyph
Words where Y is the only vowel are satisfying.
I discovered this word while reading the three body problem and I thought it was made up lol
For me, it was Destiny 2!
It was an episode of the X-Files for me
German always looks great.
My favourite?
Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
For any non-Germans:
cattleregistrationmeatlabellingsupervisiontasksdelegatinglaw
gesundheit
What the fuck did you just call me
The most german thing is to read that no problem at the first try. But our language is cheating with the combining words thing.
Dutch does that but there are limits. Four, five, six words smashed together?! Doe normaal! Germans… always going a bit too far… 😉
Yeah laws or very specialized tools/Maschines can get crazy, but I think our lawmakers are also trolling sometimes with the long titles.
When in all lowercase letters the word
bed
Looks like a bed.
A place in California called Zzyzx.
On the way to Vegas! Yes. The desolate exit where a guy can pee when there are no exits for miles.
That’s actually hilarious. I never knew about this until now.
*Please don’t do that. The peeing in public thing. It was a terrible suggestion.
Please respect Zzyzx!
Of course I won’t. I don’t even pee in the streets anyways.
I will respect Zzyzx.
I love the word acquiesce. It just looks classy and elegant (even though the word doesn’t mean anything like it)
Preposterous. Sounds hilarious, and looks/sounds very sophisticated in a good way.
Always dug the word “queue” you only pronounce the first letter and the rest of them are just waiting in line all tidy.
The word queue is made up of a queue of vowels. It’s pronounced exactly the same as its first letter. It’s beautiful.
I also find deque satisfying. Pronounced deck. It is a term in computing referring to a double ended queue.
Koowéwé
Cellar door
Sex
