What is the longest word in the world ?

Question

I don't know, do you?

Answer 1

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCO....

(45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary. (It is also spelled -koniosis.)"

or

SMILES because "there's a mile between the two S's." :)

Answer 2

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

Answer 3

it should be a german word: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsauf... - 'Beef labelling supervision duty assignment law'. In English is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon... (technical)

Answer 4

Funny I came across this article.

http://www.pressbox.co.uk/detailed/Enter...

Answer 5

the longest word in the world is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoco... it's a type of disease

Answer 6

floccinaucinihilipilification the longest real word in the Oxford English  

Answer 7

The longest word actually in a dictionary would probably be:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoc...

But it depends on what you mean by 'word'.

See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_wor...

Answer 8

Longest word in a major dictionary

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoc...

Longest officially recognized place name

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapo...

Longest non-coined word in a major dictionary

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

Answer 9

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturi... is the name of a hill near to hawkes bay New zealand.

Answer 10

I think the longest word in the English language was Disestablishmentarianism? Could be wrong though...

Answer 11

floccinaucinihilipilification

Answer 12

Supercalafragalisticexpialidocious? xD