I like it if sound and meaning are similar. In english, there seem to be no such words, though I kind of like the word "forever", if written as one word. "For ever", on the other hand, looks ugly to me.
As for my favopurite word in all languages I speak, it's probably German "Spuk" and "Schreck" - the first meaning "ghost", the second - "scare".
I guess for Ian's favourite word is "imperial".
I like to repeat words like "efficiency" and "movement" over and over in my mind.
Ecumenical, Industrial, Pathogenic..
and then there's Russian words such as Tovaritsch which of course is, "Comrade" (a bit stereotypical I know but it's the only one to mind currently.)
Serendipity: An accidental discovery (while searching for something else)
Thaks for the explanation of the word. I knew the word (there is a movie called "Serendipity"), but no dictionary delivered me the meaning - and English is my fourth, so I couldn't have known it
This was the best I could come up with:
Tri = three
rectangular = four sided regular polygon with sides meeting at right-angles
isco = a company that manufactures machinery used in waste-water monitoring
soles = flat fish
etri = a company that manufactures fans and blowers
hydral = a company that produces pumps.
angle = catch fish with a rod.
I think I might see some connection, but I'm not sure what it is.
Oops, I made a boo-boo!
rectangular = pertaining to a
quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.
Not a polygon, silly me! Stomach bugs do not help brain cells.

Perhaps Yetti has invented an ingenious machine for pumping water from filthy seas and returning it nice and clean so that anglers can catch flat fish?
So there might have been a typo?
Not tri-rectangular-isco-soles-etri-hydral
but tri-rectangular-
iscoseles-tri-hydral?
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Nope, I
still don't get it.
(Nor does Google)
So, two votes each for wisteria and onomatopœia.
That's interesting....
A word I don't like:
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
= fear of long words!
