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What is the longest word in the dictionary?

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colindalaska | 2 years, 2 months ago
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Floccinaucinihilipilification is one letter longer than Antidisestablishmentarianism, and means estimating something as worthless.

My favourite long word is Nordöstersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskussionsinläggsförberedelsearbeten.

A Swedish word meaning something like "Coast artillery flight searching simulator area material maintaining follow-up system discussion post preparation tasks of the Northern Baltic Sea". And I believe this is the longest word in any language.

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bunnyphuphu | 2 years, 2 months ago
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The Oxford English Dictionary has this word:
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis which is the longest word I can pronounce properly.
Which means a lung disease caused from inhaling fine silca dust.

There are longer words out there... but many dispute them as technical or chemical combinations.

Oxford does state that antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) is listed in their larger dictionaries and isn't a technical or medical word.
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/longestword?view=uk
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justin_time | 2 years, 2 months ago
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antidisestablishmentarianism is the largest, non technical, non coined word.

There are several other categories though. The longest overall is 189 letters.

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browneyed | 2 years, 2 months ago
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It is a chemical name for a protein in our bodies. The common name is Titin. The chemical name is a whopping 189,819 letters long! But it is NOT included in the dictionary.

The longest word in Oxford Dictionary is: pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism - 30 letters.

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