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What letter is not used in a US state name?
Q
Well, my trivia-savvy friends, the answer is…Q. That’s right—50 different names, and not one of them contains the letter Q. Every other letter of our alphabet shows up at least once (well, unless you count these 6 letters that dropped out of our alphabet.)
What state does not share a letter with its capital?
What is the only state capital that shares no letters with the state it is capital of? Pierre is a city located in South Dakota, so, these two names share no letters. The city serves as the capital of the state. Pierre became the state capital in 1889, when South Dakota gained statehood.
What is not a U.S. state?
In addition to the 50 states and federal district, the United States has sovereignty over 14 territories. Five of them (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) have a permanent, nonmilitary population, while nine of them do not.
How many states have the letter A?
A total of 50 states make up the country of the United States of America, four of which have names which start with the letter A. These four states, which include Arizona, Alaska, Arkansas, and Alabama, are situated in different parts of the country.
Is state beginning with N?
Of the 50 states, only eight of them have names beginning with the letter “N.” These states are Nevada, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York (the state), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
What is the forgotten state?
Nope, it’s not Hawaii or Alaska. That state is Missouri. The results from Sporcle’s “US States Quiz” make it clear that Missouri is the most forgotten state.
Is there a letter that does not appear in a state name?
The letter that doesn’t appear in any state names is Q! Good old Q. I have to say I’m not surprised. Q is a relatively rare letter of the alphabet, anyway, usually combined with U in most words. And it is, after all, one of the most valuable Scrabble letters due to that rarity. In the popular word-making board game, Q is worth a whopping 10 points.
Are there any states that don’t have J?
Every other letter of our alphabet shows up at least once (well, unless you count these 6 letters that dropped out of our alphabet .) If you guessed J or Z, though, you were close—and probably don’t live in New Jersey or Arizona, since those are the only states that contain J and Z, respectively.
Is the letter X in New Mexico or Arizona?
The letter “x” is in New Mexico and the letter “z” is in Arizona, and all the rest are just too common not to be in at least a couple of states’ names. I’ll do all of the letters, stopping once I have at least one example:
What’s the only letter that only appears in three states?
The only other letter with fewer than five appearances might surprise you: P! It’s only in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Mississippi (the latter’s double-P bumps it up to four appearances, even though it’s only in three state names).