what is the longest word in the world?

Answer 1

The LONGEST word in the world has 1,185 letters!

*** I had to hyphens in it, so Y! Answers would allow you to see the whole thing. ***

It is:

ACETYL­SERYL­TYROSYL-
­SERYL­ISOLEUCYL­THR-
EONYL­SERYL­PROLYL­S-
ERYLLUTAMINYL­PHENY-
L­ALANYL­VALYL­PHEN-
YL­ALANYL­LEUCYL­SERY-
L­SERYL­VALYL­TRYP-
TOPHYL­ALANYL­ASPAR-
TYL­PROLYL­ISOLEU-
CYL­GLUTAMYL­LEUCYL-
­LEUCYL­ASPARAGINYL-
­VALYL­CYSTEINYL­THRE-
ONYL­SERYL­SERYL­LE-
UCYL­GLYCYL­ASPARA-
GINYL­GLUTAMINYL­PHEN-
YL­ALANYL­GLUTAMINYL-
­THREONYL­GLUTAMINY-
L­GLUTAMINYL­ALANYL­AR-
GINYL­THREONYL­THR-
EONYL­GLUTAMINYL­VA-
LYL­GLUTAMINYL­GLUTA-
MINYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­SE-
RYL­GLUTAMINYL­VAL-
YL­TRYPTOPHYL­LYSYL­P-
ROLYL­PHENYL­ALANYL-
­PROLYL­GLUTAMINYL­SER-
YL­THREONYL­VALYL­A-
RGINYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­P-
ROLYL­GLYCYL­ASPART-
YL­VALYL­TYROSYL­LYSY-
L­VALYL­TYROSYL­ARGINY-
L­TYROSYL­ASPARAGINYL-
­ALANYL­VALYL­LEUCYL­A-
SPARTYL­PROLYL­LEUC-
YL­ISOLEUCYL­THREONY-
L­ALANYL­LEUCYL­LEUCY-
L­GLYCYL­THREONYL­PHE-
NYL­ALANYL­ASPARTYL­T-
HREONYL­ARGINYL­ASPA-
RAGINYL­ARGINYL­ISOLE-
UCYL­ISOLEUCYL­GLUTA-
MYL­VALYL­GLUTAMYL­AS-
PARAGINYL­GLUTAMINYL-
­GLUTAMINYL­SERYL­PROL-
YL­THREONYL­THREON-
YL­ALANYL­GLUTAMYL­TH-
REONYL­LEUCYL­ASPART-
YL­ALANYL­THREONYL­AR-
GINYL­ARGINYL­VALYL­ASP-
ARTYL­ASPARTYL­ALANYL-
­THREONYL­VALYL­ALANY-
L­ISOLEUCYL­ARGINYL­SE-
RYL­ALANYL­ASPARAGINY-
L­ISOLEUCYL­ASPARAGIN-
YL­LEUCYL­VALYL­ASPAR-
AGINYL­GLUTAMYL­LEUCY-
L­VALYL­ARGINYL­GLYCYL-
­THREONYL­GLYCYL­LEUCY-
L­TYROSYL­ASPARAGIN-
YL­GLUTAMINYL­ASPARAGI-
NYL­THREONYL­PHENYL-
­ALANYL­GLUTAMYL­SERYL­M-
ETHIONYL­SERYL­GLYC-
YL­LEUCYL­VALYL­TRYPTO-
PHYL­THREONYL­SERYL-
­ALANYL­PROLYL­ALANYL­S-
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(Definition: Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain.
This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word.)

The longest word in English: honorificabilitudinitatibus

It means: "the state of being able to achieve honors"

In Finnish: solutomaattimittaamotulos

It means: "the result from a measurement laboratory for tomatoes”

There are some other entries, but some were "created" just to try to make the claim of "longest word", such as the case of these words:

~ pneumonoultramicroscopicsiliccvolcanoconiosis
(Definition: a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust. It was created in 1935.)

~ hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies
(Definition: a surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.)

~ hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian
(Definition: pertaining to a very long word.)

Answer 2

pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism - 30 letters is one of tyhw biggest words in english

Answer 3

I got it! Without looking it up, so I hope it's spelled right...

pneumonultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Go to disctionary.com and try it. It's a little fictitious because it's made out of shorter techincal words, but it is the longest single word in the english language. Take care!

Answer 4

The longest place-name still in use is

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

Answer 5

The longest word in the english unabridged dictionary is
''pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoneosis''
this is a disease caused by inhalation of very fine dust particles of volcanic ash.My wife knew this since she was a little girl,learned it and how to spell it.She still remembers.!!

Answer 6

Whatever happened to antidisestablishmentarianism? This is a real word, albeit somewhat out of date since establishmentarianism is no longer the burning question it used to be.

Answer 7

Supercalifragilisticexpialidociuos, add ious to the end of that. longest one I could think of right off hand anyway

and not sure if its spelled right, gimme a break i'm high

Answer 8

Supercalafragilisticexpealidocious

Answer 9

Mary Poppins said it.

Answer 10

i know that it used to be antidisestablishmentarianism, but now its some scientific term. let me google it.

It's PNEUMONO ­ULTRA ­MICRO­SCOPIC SILICO­ VOLCANO ­CONIOSIS and its a lung disease. I had to break it up so it would fully register for everyone to read, sorry....