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.
One of my kids is named Ivy and she was the first to learn how to write it because it’s one stick, two sticks, three sticks. Her under 2 year old sister was at the library once and pointed to a book and said “Ivy” and yep, that was on the spine of the book. So I love that word because it made two of my kids understand written language.
syzygy
Bonus points for no aeiou.
Always dug the word “queue” you only pronounce the first letter and the rest of them are just waiting in line all tidy.
Koowéwé
The word bed looks like a bed.
When in all lowercase letters the word
bed
Looks like a bed.
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
Cellar door
Sex
Chinese and Japanese would have so many. My favorite is probably 緑 which means green. I also like the simplified Chinese horse: 马. Special shoutout to 凸 meaning convex, 凹 meaning concave, and 凸凹 meaning bumpy (not sure if this is true in Chinese). There’s thousands to choose from so of course there are a lot of other handsome one-character words, but those are the first few I thought of.
cipőfűző
The French really like it for some reason. It means shoelaces in Hungarian.
Preposterous. Sounds hilarious, and looks/sounds very sophisticated in a good way.
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).
syzygy
I discovered this word while reading the three body problem and I thought it was made up lol
It was an episode of the X-Files for me
German always looks great.
My favourite?
Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
The most german thing is to read that no problem at the first try. But our language is cheating with the combining words thing.
For any non-Germans:
cattleregistrationmeatlabellingsupervisiontasksdelegatinglaw
Grawlix - the use of punctuation to convey swearing in comics or cartoons. @#!&
Malapropism - incorrectly using a word that sounds similar to the intended word. Like Mike Tyson famously saying that he’d “fade into Bolivian”
Malaphor - combining one or more metaphors incorrectly like “we’ll burn that bridge then we come to it”
I’ve loved “we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it” ever since a character in Robert Asprin’s Mythadventures series used it. Fun books.
