What is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?

queue

Most "Q" words are weird to start with, then just adding a bunch of silent vowels at the end doesn't make it any less so.

Gerrymandering sounds like some sort of magic class.

pulchritudinous

such an ugly word, yet it means "beautiful"

Be, is, are, was, am, were, being, been... are all the same word.

I suppose technically it's Latin, but I've always been fascinated with "syzygy".

“Rhythm” doesn’t rhyme with anything and doesn’t contain a letter that’s always a vowel.

Akimbo

It's an honest-to-goodness English word and not derived from French, Latin, Greek or anything else, like a lot of the words here. Yes, it looks like it might be from an African language, but it's a squashed form of "in keen bow" meaning "well bent" or "crooked".

Colonel. Why is it pronounced like kernal?

Pick any of them, and repeat it over and over again. It'll quickly become the weirdest word in the language, at least for a while.

"Though"

The first two letters don't sound like themselves, and the last three are silent. The word is 83% lies.

Awkward is spelled awkwardly.

Gubernatorial

As a native speaker of language that is spelled the way its written. I can say that most of them are weird.

Biweekly.

It means twice a week.

Or, it means once every other week.

Good luck.

Eye.

We take it for granted now, but I'm sure we all questioned the word at one point in our lives, the shortest word guaranteed to fool any child who is an intuitive spelling pro if they don't already know the word's spelling.

"of"

It's just odd that you're supposed to say it like it rhymes with "love". It's also almost always with other words, so by itself it truly looks suspicious.

of

I love salubrious as it sounds like the exact opposite of what it is (health giving or healthy.)

Kerfluffle

https://www.etymonline.com/word/kerfuffle

"Cwm"

One of a few words that use W as a vowel. (This is how the word "Pwn" works too)

Epicaricacy. We chose to use a German loanword instead.

Or words that came from fiction like cromulent and thagomizer.

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

I'm gonna throw "forecastle" out there. It's referring to a specific part/area of a ship, but it's pronounced similar to "folks-sole."

sew

Pronounced exactly the same as sow, if you mean the right sow and not the other sow, which is spelled the same but pronounced differently.

niggardly

It's a little weird that syphilis and chlamydia are way more euphonic than they ought to be. They just roll off the tongue and feel so good to say.

" sesquipedalian "

"Sphere"

That pronunciation ... like WTF ... did word inventors just figure we had totally exhausted the sound combinations that we could splice together?!

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.

British English - lieutenant is pronounced "Lef-tennant"

"Fuck"

I think adjective is the only grammar variation it doesn't cover.

strengths

it breaks so many linguistic rules yet feels just fine to say

Most of the examples here are perfectly cromulent words.

"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.

Dyslexia - it's hard to spell even if you're not dyslexic.

I was just thinking "umbrella" is weird. It just seems so random.

"Winningest"

Tabernacle

Onomatopoeia - the word for making a word for a sound

Glossolalia

Myrrh

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".

"Weirdest"

Flabbergasted

Kumquat

Caveat

I'm a big fan of the following weird words:

Indubitably

Discombobulated

I dunno if it's the weirdest but "pronunciation" is pretty weird.

Why is it "pronUnciation" but "pronOUnce"?

"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.

Flaccid.

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Higgledy-piggledy

Omit omitted omitting omits – omission –

The * did my t go?

I feel like we will change a lot for digital reasons, especially in coming centuries.

lemmatization - in linguistics is the process of grouping together inflected forms of a word so they can be analyzed as a single item, identified by the word's lemma, or dictionary form; (eg. walk [lemma], walks, walked, walking)

Things like inflected forms and parts of speech that can not be coded easily really have no use in the future. Things like how a sentence can be "I am here." but when I must change more than one word to say "He is here." The am/is change is nonsense of no use. It is like a deep inner conflict with no solution; a prejudice or bias.

Anything that shows the awful inconsistency in phonetics.

Indubitably

Moist

I can't say for certain, but it's probably one of these.

Sardoodledom

Orange, nothing rhymes with orange

Irony