Some of the words that qualify for the title take hours to pronounce, like the 189,819-letter word for the protein Titin. Additionally, many of the longest words are medical terms, so we have excluded some of them to allow for more variety. The end result is a list of fascinatingly le...
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a group dedicated to word games and linguistic puzzles. They wanted to create a word that could be humorously referred to as the longest in English, even though the medical condition it describes was already well-known by other names. Today, it stands as the hallmark of long Englis...
English : Longest Words What are the Longest Words in the dictionary?The longest word listed in a dictionary is usually a disease. That word that we have come across is:Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis.It is a word containing 45 letters! Please don't ask me how you pronounce it!
Ghost Word From 1932 to 1940, due to an error, there was a ghost word in the dictionary that has no meaning. The word was dord. Oldest Word Town is the oldest word in the English language; strengths is the longest word with just a single vowel; dreamt is the only word that ends ...
it is the longest word to ever appear in the works of William Shakespeare. Billy the Bard only ever used it once, in his playLove’s Labour’s Lost(1590s). Secondly,honorificabilitudinitatibusis the longest English word wherein the consonants and vowels alternate back and forth. Check it...
to enrich his work and the language itself. It originates from the medieval Latin word honorificabilitudinitas, which can be translated as “the state of being able to achieve honors”. It is the dative and ablative form of the Latin word and the longest word in the English language featur...
Some consider the number of letters to be the determining factor, while others take into account the number of syllables or even the time it takes to pronounce the word. Regardless of how you choose to define it, the search for the longest word in English remains a...
where you’re from. While our transatlantic friends pronounce this something like ‘squirld’ (ˈskwərld), Brits pronounce the word squirrelled with two syllables: ‘squir-relled’ (ˈskwir-əld). I don’t want to say who’s wrong or right but… we are learningBritish English...
There are many hard English words to spell. A word may be difficult to spell for many reasons. It could be because it is from a language very different from the English language, e.g., Afrikaans, Sanskrit, etc., or because the pronunciation is very different from the spelling. A word ...