It should come as no surprise that we are word lovers. In fact, we are big word lovers in that we love really big words. To express our love, we looked around for some of the biggest, most ludicrously long words in the English language. In addition to pure length, we also tried to...
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use.For example, the medieval Latin wordhonorificabilitudinitas(honourableness) was listed by some old dictionaries in the English formhonorificabilitudinity(22 letters), but it has never really been in use.In Voltaire's Candide, Pangloss is supposed to have given lectures onmetaphysico-theologo-...
The classic longestGerman wordisDonaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän, clocking in with 42 letters. In English, it becomes four words: "Danube steamship company captain." However, it's not the only super long word in the German language and, technically, it's not even the longest. German...
With 2,000 characters under your belt, you’ll still run across an unfamiliar one every couple of lines or so.Arabic looks easier. It’s got only a couple of dozen letters, but they change shape depending on whether they appear...
The answer depends on what you mean by thelongest word, but regardless of your definition the longest word isn'tsuperextraordinarísimo, the 22-letter word once listed in a famous recordbook and the word that was usually cited as the longest in the language. (It means "most superextraordin...
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 with mt, and I am is the shortest complete sentence in English. Old English
The longest word with one syllable Brits and Americansare going to argue over this one. Because of our different pronunciations, we don’t agree on what is the longest one-syllable word in English. People from the US and Canada might tell you that it’s the wordsquirrel(l)ed. This has...
Have you ever wondered what the longest word in the English language is Believe it or not, there’s no simple answer to the question. You might think it would be as easy as opening a dictionary and looking for the longest word. However ,it’s far more complicated (复杂的) than that....
A sentence is a set of words. We’ll represent it with a JavaString. Additionally, we’ll assume that every non-whitespace character is part of a word. Lastly, we’ll underline the technical edge cases: a null, empty, or blankStringhas no longest word. ...