What is the 3 hour word?

The longest English word
The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and takes 3 hours to pronounce. This is a technical term for the chemical composition of titin. Titin is the largest known protein responsible for maintaining the passive elasticity of the muscles.
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What is the 189 819 letter word full?

1. Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… isoleucine (189, 819 letters)
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Is Floccinaucinihilipilification a real word?

The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries 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.
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What does the 3 hour long word mean?

A word of warning… the “word” takes about 3.5 hours to say. The word is 189,819 letters long. It's actually the name of a giant protein called Titin. Proteins are usually named by mashing-up the names of the chemicals making them.
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Is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis the longest word?

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word entered in the most trusted English dictionaries. The definition is "a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust."
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Reading The Longest English Word (190,000 Characters)



What is the longest F word?

floccinaucinihilipilification (29).
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What are the 5 longest words in the world?

10 Longest Words in the English Language
  • Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) ...
  • Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters) ...
  • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters) ...
  • Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters) ...
  • Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters)
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What word is 1 89 819 letters?

An English word of 189, 819 letters

isoleucine". This term, which has no less than 189, 819 letters, is the chemical name of the largest protein: titin. It would take three hours to recite it from beginning to end!
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Is there a word with all 26 letters?

An English pangram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. The most well known English pangram is probably “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. My favorite pangram is “Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.”
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What is the shortest word in the world?

The shortest word is a. Some might wonder about the word I since it consists of one letter, too. In sound, a is shorter because it is a monophthong (consists of one vowel), while I is a diphthong.
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Is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu the longest word in the world?

Place with the Longest Single Word in the World

The place with the longest single word is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. At 85 letters, this Māori name for a hill in New Zealand is often truncated to Taumata.
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Is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia the 2nd longest word?

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a phobia, meaning the fear of long words, ironically, it is a long word itself. The phobia isn't considered an actual phobia, but more of a social phobia. This is the second longest word in the English language. Another word for the phobia is Sesquipedalophobia.
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What is the meaning of Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

Noun. hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (uncountable) (humorous) The fear of long words.
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What is the 52 letter word Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic?

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic. This is the longest word in English which is composed of seven words. This 52-letter word was coined by Dr. Edward Strother to describe the spa waters in Bath, England.
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How many letters is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu?

With 85 letters, the longest one-word place name is that of a hill in New Zealand called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
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What is 200000 letter word?

As we saw at the start of our hunt, the longest word according to a lot of sources is the technical name for the protein titin. It is the same across all languages and has nearly 200,000 letters. Here's a snippet of the first 4,000 characters!
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What is the 27th letter in the alphabet?

Total number of letters in the alphabet

Until 1835, the English Alphabet consisted of 27 letters: right after "Z" the 27th letter of the alphabet was ampersand (&). The English Alphabet (or Modern English Alphabet) today consists of 26 letters: 23 from Old English and 3 added later.
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What is the 27th word in the alphabet?

“Et” was the 27th letter of the alphabet. And actually, you can still find it on your keyboard! Now most people call this character an “ampersand” or simply “and”, but this character was actually considered a letter!
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What starts with E ends with E and only has 1 letter?

The answer to the riddle "what starts with 'e', ends with 'e' and has one letter in it?" is envelope.
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What number is 1000000 in words?

1000000 in words is One Million.
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What number is 9000000 in words?

9000000 in English Words

We generally write numbers in words using the English alphabet. Thus, we can read 9000000 in English as “Nine million” or “Ninety Lakh”.
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How do you say 427 in words?

In both, the system of numerals, 427 in words, is written as Four hundred twenty-seven.
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What is the longest 45 letter word?

1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (forty-five letters): A lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica or quartz dust.
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Is there a word longer than supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?

In that case, what's the longest word in the English language dictionary? It's pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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What is the longest P word in the world?

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a New Latin word made up of five parts. The combining form pneumono- means “lung.” The word ultramicroscopic refers to something so small that it can't be seen by normal microscopes.
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