what is the longest word in english?

Answer 1

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis 45 letter word meaning lung disease

Answer 2

Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious is the longest word in english.
There are longer names.. chemical formulae of compunds in microbiology -- but you can't really classify them as 'words'. The longest is a copmpound having both numbers and letters, spanning over a 100 letters -- starting something like 2,4-di....

Answer 3

James Joyce, known for his distinctive style, made up nine 100- and one 101-letter long words in his novel Finnegans Wake, the most famous of which is Bababadal­gharagh­takammin­arronn­konn­bronn­tonn­erronn­tuonn­thunn­trovarrhoun­awnskawn­toohoo­hoordenen­thurnuk. Appearing on the first page, it allegedly is the symbolic thunderclap representing the fall of Adam and Eve. As this word appears nowhere else except in reference to this passage, it is generally not accepted as a real word. Anyway don't try to read it :D
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This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word.
or what about smiles - there is a MILE between the first and the last letter ;))

Answer 4

Infinity

Answer 5

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis succeeded electrophotomicrographically as the longest word in english recognized by the National Puzzlers League.

Though people still argue that supercallifragilisticexpiallidocious the word which was first heard in the movie Sound Of Music is the longest word.

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Answer 6

Supercalifratzilisticexpialidocious

(Believe it or not, I haven't seen the "Mary Poppins" movie for many years. I just remember the word.)

Answer 7

smiles cause theres a mile in between the 2 s's

Answer 8

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. a 45-letter word referring to a lung disease, but research has discovered that this word was used to mean hoax.

Answer 9

SMILES because it has a mile between the 2 s's. Got it??

Answer 10

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It means kdkjfkdjfkfdmdjfkkfkdjdkff,f,fkffif