which is the longest word in the world?

Answer 1

hi...you could check this site

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English
http://www.tgmag.ca/tgo.v2e7/v2e7.7x_e.html

Answer 2

The longest word in the Infoplease Dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

In a field of over 122,000 headwords, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis beats out its closest competitor (supercalifragilisticexpialidocious) by 11 letters. Both have objections to them; the former was deliberately invented to be the longest word in the language, and has never been used in any other context, while the latter is an invented nonsense word. Other, more legitimate, long words include floccinaucinihilipilification and antidisestablishmentarianism.

One might also count trinitrophenylmethylnitramine, and any number of chemical compounds whose names could go on for pages if anybody cared to describe them that way.


Some trivia about different long English words.

Longest word with all the vowels in order (23): Pancreaticoduodenostomy



Longest words that can be reversed (8):
stressed & desserts



Word with the longest run of vowels (4):
queuing



Longest word with 180 degree symmetry (5):
SWIMS



Longest word in which all letters appear twice (16):
Esophagographers



Longest word that can be typed with the left hand (12):
Stewardesses



Longest word with only one vowel (10):
strengthed & scraunched



Longest word to alternate consonants and vowels (27):
Honorificabilitudinitatibus



Longest word with letters in alphabetical order (8):
Aegilops



Longest word without a repeating letter (15):
uncopyrightable & dermatoglyphics



Word with the longest run of consonants (6):
latchstring



Longest one-syllable word (9):
screeched & strengths

Answer 3

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. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.[1]
The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).
The longest non-technical word is flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication 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.[2][3][4] In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd [5], and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically.[6]
Anti­dis­establishment­arianism (a nineteenth century movement in England opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is still in colloquial currency for being one of the longest words in the English language.
The longest word which appears in William Shakespeare's works is the 27-letter honorific­abilitud­initatibus, appearing in Love's Labour's Lost. This is arguably an English word (rather than Latin), but only because it was Shakespeare who used it.
The humuhumu-nukunuku-a-pua‘a, or reef triggerfish, is Hawaii's official state fish.[7] At 22 letters (including the okina) it is one of the best known very long one-word names for an animal. It is occasionally quipped that the name is longer than the fish.

Answer 4

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis (also spelled -coniosis) is an alleged lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes. It was originally coined to serve as the longest English word. The more general and widely used term for this condition is pneumoconiosis.

Answer 5

hi. i live in wales, and there is a village here called llanfairpwllgwyngychgogerychchownbrodwllllandisiliogogogoch it is in the language welsh and english but you did say longest word in the world so it should be ok. it is 59 letters long!
another one is.. supercallifrajerlisticsaikespeeallerdochours, mary poppins says it is but it is not a proper word. yet another one is smiles because theres a mile between the two s's. hehe i hope i helped.

Answer 6

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis is the longest word in the world it is a lung disease

Answer 7

It's 'pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis', a 45 letter word that describes a lung disease caused by inhaling volcanic ash. Here's a site below to give u further details. :D

Answer 8

Flocippocinihillipilification

Answer 9

SMILES because there is a mile between the two S's.

Answer 10

Supercalafragilisticxbealadocious. That's the only one I know, you know from Mary Poppins.

Answer 11

'Smiles', because there is a mile between the first and last letters!