The word bed looks like a bed.
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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.
Speaking of which:
When you articulate the word "poop", your mouth makes the same sequence of shapes your anus does when you poop.
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Always dug the word "queue" you only pronounce the first letter and the rest of them are just waiting in line all tidy.
The word queue is made up of a queue of vowels. It's pronounced exactly the same as its first letter. It's beautiful.
Koowéwé
I also find deque satisfying. Pronounced deck. It is a term in computing referring to a double ended queue.
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
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.
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When in all lowercase letters the word
bed
Looks like a bed.
dub
It looks like headphones. Nicely symmetrical.
Hungarian "dob" for drum looks like three drums and two sticks over them
hijinks
Three tittles in a row.
Hey man, nice tittles
Cyrillic cursive takes that shape to an extreme. No tittles though.
Titties the double tt looks good on cursive.
How about besotten? Are you?
syzygy
Bonus points for no aeiou.
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
"Minimum" is quite nice, particularly in calligraphy where it's just a bunch of vertical lines
Pretty much any Arabic calligraphy.
I went to a museum in Morocco that was specifically showing Arabic calligraphy in the shape of trees or people or other common objects and was absolutely blown away.
Indelibly printed on my mind.
I saw saw Arabic calligraphy and I was like oh s*** they got the written word correct.
https://www.boredpanda.com/illustrating-arabic-words-into-their-meaning/
I like how the Arabic word for ape is the same word that they use for monkey, but the artist cleverly drew one with a tail, and one without.
Very cool find, I would not have noticed that unless you mentioned it.
Thanks
In Romanian, the word "lalelele" is perfectly correct.
Ever since I saw it written down I've been trying to decide if I love it or hate it.
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cipőfűző
The French really like it for some reason. It means shoelaces in Hungarian.
Cipo means "you pussy" in Polish
"Slyly" actually kind of bothers me a little due to how it looks.
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.
German always looks great.
My favourite?
Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
For any non-Germans:
cattleregistrationmeatlabellingsupervisiontasksdelegatinglaw
The most german thing is to read that no problem at the first try. But our language is cheating with the combining words thing.
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