What is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order?
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8 Letters: aegilops - goat grass 7 Letters: adelops - animals whose feet are not visible alloquy - act of speaking to another (as against soliloquy) beefily - in a beefy fashion begorry - variant of begorra, Irish expletive rarely heard billowy - characterised by billows egilops - (1) An ulcer of the eye; (2) a kind of grass SOURCE: http://www.marlodge.supanet.com/museum/alphword.html
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Aegilops, eight letters long, is the longest word whose letters are arranged in alphabetical order. Seven letter words with this property include beefily and billowy. Six letter words include abhors, accent, access, almost, biopsy, bijoux, billow, chintz, effort, and ghosty. Source - http://rinkworks.com/words/oddities.shtml
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