What is the longest word in english

(Roher Jegg Fotodesign-Jegg.de / Shutterstock.com) Remember supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from the Mary Poppins movie ? Or perhaps you’ve stumbled upon antidisestablishmentarianism? There is something melodious and intriguing about really, really long words that roll off the tongue. They tickle our brains and they are fun to decode and to drop into casual conversation. The longest word in the English language, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, won primary school speller Jemimah Elise Sampson, the East Coast Radio’s Last Kid Standing title, as seen in the video below published by the East Coast Radio. But, just because this 45-letter long word, which means a certain type of lung disease, is the longest word in English, doesn’t make it the world’s longest word. That title, the world’s longest word, as per the Guiness Book of World Records goes to the 175 letter long Greek word: λοπαδο­τεμαχο­σελαχο­γαλεο­κρανιο­λειψανο­δριμ­υπο­τριμματο­σιλφιο­καραβο­μελιτο­κατακεχυ­μενο­κιχλ­επι­κοσσυφο­φαττο­περιστερ­αλεκτρυον­οπτο­κεφαλλιο­κιγκλο­πελειο­λαγῳο­σιραιο­βαφη­τραγανο­πτερύγων. According to Greek City TImes , the English transliteration of the word is a stunning 183 characters. The 78 syllable long word reads: “Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon.” The video below shows how the word is p...

Shakespeare had a go at at the longest word in the English languagewith “honorific-abilitude-in-i-tat-i-bus.” If you play the game of stacking suffixes and prefixes together, you can get “antidisestablishmentarianism,” one letter longer for a total of 28 letters. But the longest word by farappeared in 1964 in Chemical Abstracts,a dictionary-like reference for chemists. The word describes a protein in what’s called the tobacco mosaic virus, and itruns 1,185 letters long. Besides being too long to write here, it tells us a lot about the unusual chemistry of carbon. Credits Host: Senior Producer: Producer: Audio Engineer: Transcript What’s the longest word in the English language?Shakespeare had a go at it, with “honorific-abilitude-in-i-tat-i-bus.” Which, depending on whom you ask, either means “the state of being loaded with honors,” or is an anagram declaring that Francis Bacon, not the Bard of Avon, really wrote Shakespeare’s plays. But that word, a mere 27 letters, doesn’t stretch nearly long enough to count as the longest word in the English language. Of course, determining the longest word is a bit of a mug’s game. What even qualifies as English can differ in different contexts. Shakespeare’s word was spoken by a clown in Love’s Labor’s Lost, and obviously comes from Latin. But maybe we shouldn’t count foreign words, even in English sentences. Plus, if you play the game of stacking suffixes and prefixes together, you can get “antidisestablishmentarianism,” twenty-eight...

Are you familiar with the longest words in English? We’re betting you haven’t had a go at the official longest one though. We also won’t be mentioning it in this post since it’ll span roughly fifty-seven pages! The word we’re referring to is the chemical name for the titin protein found in humans. But did you know that dictionaries omit the name of this protein and many other long words? Obviously, dictionaries have space constraints, and the average person would have no need to know the technical names of chemicals. Still, there are plenty of lengthy words in dictionaries. English is a very rich and creative language and it is no wonder that there are words in the language that are certified tongue twisters. This isn’t only because they are long. But also because the spelling and pronunciation require experience and expertise in the language. Here are the top 10 longest words in the English Language. Countdown to the longest words in English 10. Honorificabilitudinitatibus This 27-character word is found in Act V, Scene 1 of a Shakespeare play entitled Love’s Labour’s Lost. The word translates to Honorableness or invincible glorious. 9. Floccinauccinihilipilification This word is 30 characters long. Despite its use of flocci, the plural of floccus and which means tufts of wooly hair or small, rounded tufts of clouds, the whole word is not a scientific term. Floccinauccinihilipilification means trifling, of little or no value or something that has been estimated to be valu...

Whether you landed on this page out of curiosity or because you needed a little help for a Hangman game, get ready! Fasten your imaginary seatbelt because we’re about to take to the skies looking for the longest word in the world. My job, as a captain, is to make sure you find this journey fruitful and rich in big words! Meanwhile, my own deepest desire is to find “the one” – the longest word in English! Warning: Those suffering from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (fear of long words) should not embark on this discovery mission. Here’s what we are going to learn today: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • What is the longest word in the world? Like any discovery mission that dreams big, our first stop explores a ridiculously long word – 189,819 letters – that is also kinda fake. Sorry to ruin it for you. It would have been too good to be true, just like Hogwarts. So long story short, yes, the longest word in the world is 189,819-letters long. But it’s a hoax. Its genesis is fascinating though. As you very well know, chemical names can sometimes be sesquipedalian (= very long). This is also the case of titin – a giant human protein responsible for the muscle’s passive elasticity. Although it has its name derived from the giant Greek deity Titan, titin was annoyed at the fact that it sounded cute, so it asked The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry for a name worthy of its size. Just joking! But yes, titin also has the longest IUPAC name of a protein. Its 189,819...

This is a list of candidates for the longest scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled. scraunched and strengthed. List [ ] word pronunciation letters source notes schtroumpfed ˈ ʃ t r uː m p f t/ 12 Eco The original schtroumpf, and this word is used as an all-purpose noun and verb by the titular characters. The form schtroumpfed is used in Alistair McEwen's English translation of an essay by smurfed. broughammed ˈ b r uː m d/ 11 Sc.Am. meaning "travelled by bussed, biked, carted etc. Rhymes with fumed, zoomed. Suggested by poet squirrelled ˈ s k w ɜːr l d/ 11 LPD; compressed /ˈskwɪrəld/. The monosyllabic pronunciation rhymes with world, curled. In the United States the given spelling is a variant of the more usual squirreled: see -led and -lled spellings. broughamed ˈ b r uː m d/ 10 Shaw a variant of broughammed, used by quarrelled ˈ k w ɒ r ə l d/ 10 OED the more usual British spelling quarreled. schmaltzed ˈ ʃ m ɔː l t s t/, ˈ ʃ m ɒ l t s t/, ˈ ʃ m æ l t s t/ 10 OED meaning "imparted a sentimental atmosphere to" e.g. of music; with a 1969 attestation for the past tense. schnappsed ˈ ʃ n æ p s t/ 10 Sc.Am. meaning "drank schwartzed ˈ ʃ w ɔːr t s t/ 10 meaning "responded 'Schwartz' to a player without making eye-contact" in the game scraunched ˈ s k r ɔː n ʃ t/ 10 W3NID; a "chiefly dialect" word, meaning "crunched". scroonched ˈ s k r ʊ n ʃ t/ 10 W3NID; variant of scrunched, meaning "squeezed". scrootched ˈ s k r uː tʃ t/ 10 AHD variant of scrooched, meaning "crouched" squir...

Poor Dan is in a droop. Sit on a potato pan, Otis. What do these—admittedly very unusual—sentences have in common? They’re palindromes. Palin-what-in-the-what-now? What is a palindrome, and what does it mean? A palin is “again, back,” and dromos, “running.”) The word appears to have been created in English based on these roots in the early 1600s. Words like hippodrome or velodrome also feature the Greek dromos. So, a palindrome is like a word, phrase, or number that “runs back” on itself. This bit of wordplay is not the same thing as when you rearrange the letters of a word or phrase to spell another one. That’s called an anagram. In palindromes, spacing, punctuation, and capitalization are usually ignored. What are some examples of palindromes? We use palindromes everyday without thinking about it. Common palindromic—that’s the adjective for palindrome—words include: noon, civic, racecar, level, and mom. The Finnish word for “soapstone vendor” is supposedly the longest palindrome in everyday use: saippuakivikauppias. (What do you mean you don’t have a trusted soapstone vendor?) The palindrome Malayalam is also of significant length. The longest palindrome in English is often considered tattarrattat , coined by James Joyce in his 1922 Ulysses to imitate the sound of a knock on the door. That’s 12 letters. As for the longest palindrome phrase? In 2002 (a palindromic year, we should note), computer scientist Peter Norvig created a program that generated a palindrome consisti...

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The longest word? Well, that depends on what we mean by "word." If a word is coined just to be long, like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, should that count? Here are the top candidates. One comes from Shakespeare (of course.) In Love's Labour's Lost, a clown named Costard, arrested for having unlawful fling with a milkmaid, gets to say... . It uses 34 letters, but doesn't mean anything beyond giving Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke (and a slew of animated characters) something to dance to. So what if we want a word that is not famous for being long, but a word that describes something real. What's the longest one of those? Science writer Sam Kean, in his book The Disappearing Spoon, worked really hard on this and after much sleuthing, he landed on a word that comes not from dancing English nannies but from virus-hunting scientists. It's a protein, found in a virus, but this is a very dangerous, economically important virus, the first ever discovered... . otherwise known as the dreaded tobacco mosaic virus. It appeared in all its lettery splendor in 1964 in a reference source for chemists, "Chemical Abstracts." It is one thousand, one hundred and eighty five letters long. So as Sam says, "Take a breath," and... glutaminylphenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylseryl- valyltryptophylalanylaspartylprolylisoleucylglutamyl- leucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinylthreonylserylseryl- leucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanylglutami- nylthreonylglutaminylglutaminylalanylargin...