What's the largest word--Ever?

Answer 1

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the Maori (language) placename on an otherwise unremarkable hill which is 305 metres high, near Mangaorapa and close to Porangahau, south of Waipukurau, between Hastings and Dannevirke, in southern Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. The placename is often shortened to Taumata by the locals for ease of conversation.

The placename on the sign that marks this hill is spelt as Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu which roughly translates into English as The brow [or summit] of the hill [or place], where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid [down], climbed [up] and swallowed mountains, [to travel the land], [who is] known as the Land Eater, played [on] his [nose] flute to his loved one. At 85 letters, it is one of the longest placenames in the world. There are several alternative translations and variants in spelling.
It has also been spelled as: Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu, which is 92 letters, and has been entered into the Guinness Book of Records as such

Answer 2

lot of people will say that

antidisestablishmentarianism

is the longest word it has been removed from most dictionaries due to the fact that it isn't used or even known of by most people, but there may be another word that is larger. for example coming in at 45 letters is the word

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS

(45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary.

the above word is in dispute however, so say it was made up.

other long words that may be of interest include:

HEPATICOCHOLANGIOCHOLECYSTENTEROSTOMIES

(39 letters; surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder) is the longest word in Gould's Medical Dictionary.

In Matsigenka (also spelled Machiguenga),
IRAPUSATINKAATSEMPOKITASANOIGAVETAPAAKEMPAROROKARITYO

is the longest word. It means: They will probably really go head over heels into the water when they arrive but not stay that way [Pierre Abbat].

Afyonkarahisarlilastiramayabileceklerimizdenmissiniz (52)

means "apparently you may be amongst the ones that we will not be able to make a Afyonkarahisar citizen." The longest unconjugated word in the TDK dictionary (TDK = Turkish Language Foundation, official regulator of the Turkish language) is elektroansefalografi (20), which means "electroencephalography." So we can invent a longer conjugated word:

elektroansefalografililestiremeyebileceklerimizdenmissiniz

(58), which means "apparently you may be amongst the ones that we will not be able to make have an electroencephalography."

to end this comedy, this should give you a good laugh

The domain name
Iamtheproudownerofthelongestlongestlongestdomainnameinthisworld.com

may be the longest domain name. In 2005 the web page at this address states, "This record cannot be broken with a .com domain, because 63 letters is the maximum number of letters that can be registered as a domain name. Owner of the Longest Domain Name in this World : Dr. Subrahmanyam Karuturi"

Answer 3

In English, it's "antidisestablishmentarianism"; that is a noun, referring to the movement not to separate church and state (in
England in the last century). Queen Elizabeth II is the current Defender of the Faith in the Anglican Church in England; she inherited the title upon ascension to the throne in1952. The title was originially bestowed on Henry VIII by the Pope in the fouteenth century after Henry wrote a treatise against the Protestant Reformation movement in Germany. The leader of that "reformation" was a former priest, Martin Luther.

Answer 4

according to the Guinness Book of World Records -

Longest Word In English With Each Letter Twice
"Unprosperousness", at 16 letters long, is the longest word in the English language in which each letter occurs at least twice. In the word "Sestettes", a musical term meaning pieces of music for six voices, each letter appears three times.

Answer 5

assuming 1) english language and 2) no place names, i think tina is correct, but since you placed no restrictions, there could be viable foreign contenders and horrendously long place names. there are also medical terms, where a basic condition (tumour, inflammation, etc) can be immeasurably lengthened by tacking on prefixes specifying the cause and location of the condition

Answer 6

Superkalafragalistickexpealidocious

Answer 7

It might be SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS unless you want to count names of diseases such as 'PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS', defined by the OED as "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word"), places (such as 'LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH', a village in Wales), chemical compounds (apparently there is one that is 1,913 letters long)

Answer 8

That Hollywood sign is really large.

Answer 9

smiles because there is a mile between each s lol, but seriously PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­KONIOSIS) = a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.

Answer 10

DIDJAHAVGOODWEEKENDMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYTE

NB. Must be pronounced with an FNQ Drawl