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- "As well as being a mathematical oddity, it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED.[5][6]" It's not eve
by perihelions 5y ago
- "As well as being a mathematical oddity, it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED.[5][6]"
It's not even close:
$ cat /usr/share/dict/words | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | tr -dc 'z\n' | sort | uniq -c
628483
24913 z
1485 zz
37 zzz
18 zzzz
Next closest I could find, in any language, is 5 'z's for "zbezczeszczać", or 6 'z's for its inflected form "zbezczeszczasz".
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zbezczeszczać#Polish https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zbezczeszczać#Polish