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The longest English word typable using only the top row of letters has 11 letters: rupturewort. The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters).
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Apr 11, 2023 · Firstly, it is the longest word to ever appear in the works of William Shakespeare. Billy the Bard only ever used it once, in his play Love’s Labour’s Lost (1590s). Secondly, honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest English word wherein the consonants and vowels alternate back and forth.
The Longest Words in English Most English words longer than about 15-20 letters are scientific, meaningless, or highly specialized, and they tend to be formed by affixation . This is the act or process of adding affixes to a base word to produce a derivative word—in the word affixation , for instance, -ation is an affix.
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- Antidisestablishmentarianism. Part of Speech: noun. Definition: opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England. Origins: While the word originated in 19th century Britain, it is now used to refer to any opposition to a government withdrawing support from a religious organization.
- Floccinaucinihilipilification. Part of Speech: noun. Definition: the act of defining or estimating something as worthless. Origins: This word stems from the combination of four Latin words, all of which signify that something has little value: flocci, nauci, nihili, pilifi.
- Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Part of Speech: noun. Definition: an invented word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling a fine dust.
- Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism. Part of Speech: noun. Definition: an inherited disorder similar to pseudohypoparathyroidism. Origins: This genetic disorder causes “short stature, round face and short hand bones,” according to the National Institutes of Health.
- Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (forty-five letters) A lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica or quartz dust.
- Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (thirty letters) A mild form of inherited pseudohypoparathyroidism that simulates the symptoms of the disorder but isn’t associated with abnormal levels of calcium and phosphorus in the blood.
- Floccinaucinihilipilification (twenty-nine letters) The estimation of something as valueless. Ironically, floccinaucinihilipilification is a pretty valueless word itself; it’s almost never used except as an example of a long word.
- Antidisestablishmentarianism (twenty-eight letters) Originally described opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England, but now it may refer to any opposition to withdrawing government support of a particular church or religion.
Sep 18, 2023 · Imagine spending three hours pronouncing one word. That’s about how long it takes to say the technical name for the protein titin. It has 189,819 letters, making it the longest word in the English language. The reason it’s so long is because titin is formed of 244 proteins, and the name of each one was joined together to create a single word.
Sep 28, 2023 · The longest English word that contains all 5 vowels in order is: Uncontaminated — free from any contamination, pollution or impurity (13 letters) However, if we include words that repeat the vowels, then there are several longer options:
