Most Difficult Words to Pronounce in English

The Top Ten
1 Worcestershire

What? Everyone I know has always pronounced this flawlessly!

2 Choir
3 Isthmus
4 Squirrel Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents. The squirrel family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, flying squirrels, and prairie dogs amongst other rodents.
5 Anemone
6 Sixth
7 Penguin Penguins (order Sphenisciforme, family Spheniscid) are a group of aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: only one species, the Galápagos penguin, is found north of the Equator. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white ...read more.
8 Otorhinolaryngologist
9 Colonel
10 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It's a real word.

The Contenders
11 Rural
12 Anonymity
13 Innovative
14 Malevolent
15 Benevolent
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