which is the longest word?

Answer 1

smiles, coz the two s's have a mile in between.

thats the only answer i can think of.

Answer 2

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Llanfairpwllgwyngyll - 20 (longest place name; Welsh)
humuhumunukunukuapuaa - 21

dihydroxyphenylalanine - 22

hexamethylenetetramine - 22

pseudomonocotyledonous - 22

honorificabilitudinity - 22

interdenominationalism - 22

gynotikolobomassophile - 22

bathysiderodromophobia - 22

dichlorodifluoromethane - 23

polytetrafluoroethylene - 23

quasihemidemisemiquaver - 23

inanthropomorphisability - 24

sphragidonychargokometes - 24 (Ancient Greek)

pseudorhombicuboctahedron - 25

honorificabilitudintatibus - 26 (longest in Shakespeare)

antidisestablishmentarianism - 28

tetramethyldiamidobenzhydrols - 29

floccinaucinihilipilification - 29 (longest in OED 1st ed.)

hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian - 30 (Mrs Byrne's Dict.)

dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane - 31 (longest in Macquarie Dict.)

praetertranssubstantionalistically - 34 (M McShane)

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - 34

necropurogeohydrocheirocoscinomancy - 35 (Thomas Tomkis)

cholangiocholecystocholedochectomies - 36 (Mrs Byrne's Dict.)

hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies - 39 (Gould's Medical Dict.)

osteoarch?matosplanchnochondroneuromuelous- 42 (TL Peacock)

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis - 45 (longest in OED 2nd ed. & Websters)

antipericatametaanaparcircumvolutiorectumgustpoops - 50 (Rabelais)

aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic - 52 (Mrs Byrne's Dict.; chem)

osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilagninonervomedullary - 52 (TL Peacock)

bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarr hounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk - 100 (James Joyce)

orniscopytheobibliopsychocrystarroscioaerogenethliometeoroaustrohier oanthropoichthyopyrosiderochpnomyoalectryoophiobotanopegohydrorhabdo crithoaleuroalphitohalomolybdoclerobeloaxinocoscinodactyliogeolithop essopsephocatoptrotephraoneirochiroonychodactyloarithstichooxogelosc ogastrogyrocerobletono?noscapulinaniac
- 310 (not a real word - see appendix 2)

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- 1,185 (chem. in Mrs Byrne's Dict. See appendix 2)

methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalan ylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylpheny lalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylyalylthreonylleucylglycylaspartylproly lglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylt hreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucyl glutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylle ucylalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutaminylasparaginyl alanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalyl threonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionyl leucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthreon ylisoleucylprolylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylas paraginylleucylvalylphenylalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspar tylglutamylphenylalanyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysyl valylglycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprol ylvalylglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutami nylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanylprolylisol eucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalanylasparty laspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylserylty rosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylargin ylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylala nylalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhistidylleucylvalylalanyllysyl leucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylprolylleucylg lutaminylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylg lutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycylalanylal anylglycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylis oleucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutam ylprolylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphen ylalanylvalylglutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylargin ylserine
- 1,913 (chem. in Mrs Byrne's Dict. See appendix 2)

Answer 3

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumo­noultra­microscopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease, but research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax.

The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication at 29 letters (More recent editions of the book have since aknowledged pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis). Defined as "the act of estimating (something) as worthless", its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Answer 4

Well it may have changed by now as more words have been invented but it used to be anitdisestablishmentarianism.

Of course Mary Poppins came out with Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious which very well may be longer and also can now be found in some dictionaries.

Answer 5

Floccinaucinihilipilification

Answer 6

Illitrusionisticalominalenently

Answer 7

"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch," a village in Wales

Answer 8

pneumo­noultra- microscopic- s­ilico- ­volcano- ­coniosis. a type of lung disease.

Answer 9

marriage - its a life sentence ha ha ha

Answer 10

antidisestablishmentarianism