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.
That’s the cutest one yet
The word bed looks like a bed.
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 queue is made up of a queue of vowels. It’s pronounced exactly the same as its first letter. It’s beautiful.
I also find deque satisfying. Pronounced deck. It is a term in computing referring to a double ended queue.
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.
That’s actually hilarious. I never knew about this until now.
*Please don’t do that. The peeing in public thing. It was a terrible suggestion.
Please respect Zzyzx!
syzygy
Bonus points for no aeiou.
When in all lowercase letters the word
bed
Looks like a bed.
syzygy
Yeah, love it. very similar vibe, with all the y’s.
Also Gypsy, Myth, Glyph
Words where Y is the only vowel are satisfying.
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
Boob just because it shows how boobs look from the three main perspectives: top, straight on, and profile.
That’s very immature but very accurate
There’s nothing immature about boobs, my friend. Quite the opposite in fact.
What I mean is that I laughed about this when I was twelve. I still do, but I also did when I was twelve.
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).
Higgeldy piggeldy
I think bookkeeping is a nice, woody word, both visually and spoken
and the only english word that has 3 sets of repeating letters back to back afaik
Cellar door
Sex
hijinks
Three tittles in a row.
Hey man, nice tittles
Cyrillic cursive takes that shape to an extreme. No tittles though.
dub
It looks like headphones. Nicely symmetrical.
Hungarian “dob” for drum looks like three drums and two sticks over them
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
Preposterous. Sounds hilarious, and looks/sounds very sophisticated in a good way.
