zenzizenzizenzic

noun • the eighth power of a number

Wikipedia: The 16th century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde coined the term to “doeth represent the square of squares squared”. Compositionally, zenzic means “squared”, so zenzizenzizenzic means “the squared squared squared”, or algebraically, ((x2)2)2 = x8. zenzizenzizenzic has the most z’s of any recorded word in English. (via thisismewriting: wordjournal)

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