Syzygy

When I was a little girl learning to spell my dad would say, “How do you spell ‘syzygy’?” I never knew it was a real word. I just thought he made it up. Then I found it one day in the dictionary. It is the word used to describe when all the planets line up in a straight line.

Suzanne
Pittsburgh, PA

April 17th, 2008 | April 17th, 2008 | % | (63 votes, average: 5.11 out of 10)
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2 comments to Syzygy

• WILLOBIE

  June 20, 2008 at 8:52 am

  I learned the word in botany, although it is also an astronomical term. It is the genus of the clove plant, Syzygium aromaticum. The curious thing about it is that when written in cursive, five of the six letters are below the line.

• eliashickman

  November 30, 2008 at 7:02 pm

  I actually learned this word the exact same way, Suzanne. My father told me it was the one of the only words, that for it’s length, had more tails, letters like “g,j,p,q,y”, than any other.
  Then he quizzed me on how to spell it.

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