What is the longest word in the English language?

Question

I just want to know.

Answer 1

The longest word in English is smiles. There is a mile between the first and last letters.

Answer 2

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

Greek:
In his play Ecclesiazousae ("The Assemblywomen"), the ancient Greek comedic playwright Aristophanes created: Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphio-paraomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonop-tekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon, a word of 183 letters that describes a dish by stringing together its ingredients.

Answer 3

It's actually hard to say, because
1. there are words for chemicals that can go on and on and on, so there's the question of whether to count chemistry or other technical words
2. you can expand a word by adding affixes: Ex. "establish" "establishment" "disestablishment" "disestablishmentarian" "disestablishmentarianism" "antidisestablishmentarianism..." Is that last word a valid word, considering it's only a modification of the root "establish"?
3. Do proper names, like the names of people and places, count? Do they only count if they are derived from English, and not, say, based on a Native American name for a nearby landmark or a Polish last name?

Manofgent posted the word that I've heard cited as the longest word in the English language. But I wonder if we can add any affixes to that...?

Answer 4

The longest word in the English language is antidisestablishmentarianism. The longest place name is chargogagogmanchogagogchaubunagungamog, the name of a lake in Tennessee.

Answer 5

The longest non-technical word is flocci­nauci­nihili­pi-
li­fication at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless," its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741
This is from Wikipedia

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The longest word is actually a sentence " I do " as in married " I do " this will get you 30-40 years of hell.

Answer 8

"pneu mono ultra micro scop icsili covo lcan oco niosis" is the longest real English word I guess which means a pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust
Actually I do not understand it's definition I hope you do!

Answer 9

The longest word is "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" which is the long version of pneumonia.

Answer 10

Numonoultramicroscopic- silicovolcanoconiosis.
This is one word, but i have no idea what it means