What is the 5 longest word?

10 Longest Words in the English Language
  1. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) ...
  2. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters) ...
  3. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters) ...
  4. Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters) ...
  5. Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters)
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What is the 7 longest word?

  • 10 Longest Words in the English Language. ...
  • Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) ...
  • Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters) ...
  • Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) ...
  • Honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters) ...
  • Thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters) ...
  • Antiestablishmentarian (22 letters)
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What are the 10 longest words in the world?

The 10 Longest Words in English and How They'll Help You Master...
  • Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
  • Floccinaucinihilipilification.
  • Incomprehensibility.
  • Surreptitious.
  • Uncharacteristically.
  • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
  • Subdermatoglyphic.
  • Abstentious.
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What is the 3 longest word in the world?

14 of the Longest Words in English
  1. 1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (forty-five letters): ...
  2. 2 Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (thirty letters): ...
  3. 3 Floccinaucinihilipilification (twenty-nine letters): ...
  4. 4 Antidisestablishmentarianism (twenty-eight letters):
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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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10 longest words in the English language | Can you pronounce them?



What is the shortest word of all time?

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. Both do consist of one letter in the English writing system, and in most fonts I is the narrowest letter.
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What word is 189819 letters long?

1. methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl…isoleucine. You'll notice there's an ellipsis here, and that's because this word, in total, is 189,819 letters long, and it's the chemical name for the largest known protein, titin.
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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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What is the longest word in English 190 000?

The longest English word is also the longest word in the world, with almost 190,000 letters. It is the chemical name for titin, the largest protein known. The longest word in the English dictionary however, is the 45-letter word "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", which refers to a lung disease.
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What is the 2nd longest word in English?

In fact, most of the very long words in the dictionary are scientific terms: the second-longest word is electroencephalographically, which has 27 letters, and means 'by means of an electroencephalograph' (referring to a machine used to record brain activity).
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What word has 183 letters?

λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραβομελιτοκατακεχυμενοκιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτοκεφαλλιοκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγανοπτερύγων. According to Greek City TImes, the English transliteration of the word is a stunning 183 characters.
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What is the hardest longest word?

Major dictionaries

The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters), a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.
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What are the 20 difficult words?

20 Most Difficult Words to Pronounce in the English Language
  • Colonel.
  • Worcestershire.
  • Mischievous.
  • Draught.
  • Quinoa.
  • Onomatopoeia.
  • Scissors.
  • Anemone.
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What is the 49 letter word?

The longest place name in the United States is possibly a lake in Massachusetts called Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (49 letters, or 53, if you count the Lake portion).
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What starts with P and ends with E?

Q: What starts with "P", ends with "E", and has millions of letters? A: The "Post Office"!
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Is llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch the longest word?

The long form of the name is the longest place name in the United Kingdom and one of the longest in the world at 58 characters (51 "letters" since "ch" and "ll" are digraphs, and are treated as single letters in the Welsh language).
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What is the 1st 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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What word has 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's the longest word in Russian?

Most likely one of the longest Russian words is a chemical term, тетрагидропиранилциклопентилтетрагидропиридопиридиновая (tetragidropiranilciklopentiltetragidropiridopiridinovaya), which contains 55 letters. It was used in Russian patent RU2285004C2 (granted and published in 2006).
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What is German longest word?

1. Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung (36) Officially recognised by the Duden - Germany's pre-eminent dictionary - as the longest word in German, Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung is a 36-letter, tongue-tying way of describing a rather, mundane everyday concept: motor vehicle liability insurance.
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What is the most beautiful word in the world?

The Top 10 Most Beautiful English Words
  1. 1 Sequoia (n.) (A seven-letter word that has the letter Q and all five vowels)
  2. 2 Euphoria (n.) A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness. ...
  3. 3 Pluviophile (n.) ...
  4. 4 Clinomania (n.) ...
  5. 5 Idyllic (adj.) ...
  6. 6 Aurora (n.) ...
  7. 7 Solitude (n.) ...
  8. 8 Supine (adj.) ...
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What word has all 5 vowels?

EUNOIA is the shortest word in English which has all five vowels.
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What is the hardest word to pronounce?

The word onomatopoeia is a jumble of vowels and is probably the most difficult English word to pronounce. It is pronounced [on-uh-mat-uh–pee–uh], and it defines a word that imitates a sound.
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