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1) The word FIVE is a 4-letter word. Take away the 3 letters 'F', 'I' and the 'E', and you are left with 'V' which is the Roman numeral for the number five.
2) The word ZERO is a 4-letter word, Take away the letters Z,E and R, and you are left with O, which is zero!
Other words with similar characteristics
NONE - Take away N, N and E and you have O.
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Queue
It means, "It is a letter" in the Czech language.
The Spanish word "letra" translates to "lyric" in English.
There are over 50,000 characters in the Chinese language, but the language itself does not have an alphabet made up of individual letters like the English language. Instead, Chinese characters are used to represent words or parts of words.
The longest word in the English language which can be written in reverse alphabetical order is nine letters long.That word is Spoonfeed.Spoonfeed means "to feed with a spoon"
An Arabic word that begins with the letter R is ramadi which means gray in English.
Abduce, bached, backed, braced, cabbed and cabled are 6 letter words that contain the letters A B C D and E. Abduce means to abduct. Bached means to live as a bachelor. Backed and braced mean to support. Cabbed means to take a taxicab. Cabled means to fasten with a cable.
"Anticonstitutionnellement" is a 25-letter French word that means "anticonstitutionally" in English.
Chinese is not an alphabetical language, it is ideographic language. Each Chinese character represents an idea or a word, not a letter. This means there is no 'h' or any other letter, either. For the benefit of foreigners learning Chinese, an alphabetic system called 'Pinyin' was devised in the early 1950s to represent the sounds of Chinese words. The letter 'h' and most other letters used in English appear in this Pinyin system, but this is not the written Chinese language.
doda means man in Zulu [a South African language] but is usually preceded by an 'n'
AUX means Auxilary.
In American Sign Language (ASL), you can sign "BFF" by fingerspelling the letters B-F-F. This involves forming the letter B with your dominant hand, then the letter F twice consecutively.
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