‘Typewriter’ is the longest English word that can be made by using only one row of a keyboard.

False - ‘teetertotter’ is the longest unhyphenated word that can be spelled on a single row of a typewriter keyboard (QUERTY layout), coming in at 12 characters.  There are four (4) other 10 character words that can be spelled out on a single row of a keyboard: perpetuity, proprietor, repertoire, and shakalshas.

update: out of our own curiosity, we looked up the longest word that can be spelled on a single row of a Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, we found three (3) 10 character words: unhandiest, dianthuses, and astonished.  If you can find/think-of anything longer, let us know!

original claim: @OMGFacts; source: Taxonomy of Wordplay

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