Which is the largest word in English ?

Question

This is not a tricky question ,answer seriously.

Answer 1

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon...  45 letters  amy other word longer is not in dictionary

Answer 2

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylargin...

It is the name of a compound called titin and the full name is about189,000 letters.

Answer 3

i know it is something like "micro........" something something

Answer 4

OMG, that word really sucks!!!!

Answer 5

there are alot of long words! im not sure if anybody actually knows what the longest one is.

Answer 6

There is one word with 189,819 letters, however since it is a chemical name and only listed in a couple of obscure and large technical dictionaries, I don't think it constitutes a real word.  The largest word listed in most major dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon... so it is arguably a common word, however I think it is disqualified in this case because it was in fact only invented because an opportunity was seen to create the longest word ever.

The traditional answer is antidisestablishmentarianism, which is a word somehow connected to Anglicanism and breaking off from the Catholic Church, I think.  I think that this is the only really common and genuine longest word, excluding place names.  So I would say antidisestablishmentarianism.  It is very fun to break it down and try to work out what it means!

Answer 7

The longest word in English depends upon the definition of what constitutes an English word. English allows new words to be formed by construction; long words are coined; place names may be considered words; technical terms may be arbitrarily long. Length can be in terms of orthography and number of written letters or phonology and the number of phonemes.

Methionylthreonylthreonyl...isoleucine 189,819 words

   Chemical name of the largest known protein

   Technical; not in dictionary; disputed whether it is a word

Lopado...pterygon 183 words

   Longest word coined by a major author[1]

   Coined; not in dictionary; Greek transliteration

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapo... 85   words

   Longest officially recognized place name[2]

   Place name; not in a major dictionary

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoc... 45 words     

   Longest word in a major dictionary[3]

   Technical; coined to be the longest word

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism 30 words

   Longest non-coined word in a major dictionary[4]

  Technical

Floccinaucinihilipilification 29 words

   Longest nontechnical word Coined

Antidisestablishmentarianism 28 words

   Longest non-coined and nontechnical word

Honorificabilitudinitatibus 27 words

   Longest word in Shakespeare's works

Answer 8

silicovolcanoconiosis

pneumonoultramicroscopic

Answer 9

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon...

Answer 10

it's "the longest"

but actually such question is not very meaningful because most of the given words are compound words, they consist of several prefixes

the majority of them are biological, political and chemical terms which have no daily usage

therefore such almost artificial length gives no real amusement

Answer 11

Longest word :

pneumonoultramicroscopic-

silicovolcanoconiosis

It is a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease, 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.

For more longest words ....

see the link....

http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_longe...

Answer 12

smiles, there's a mile between each S (groan)