If you are wondering about its meaning, it’s a musical term from medieval times. It’s the longest English word composed exclusively of vowels, and it has the most consecutive vowels of any word. 8 EuouaeĮuouae is six letters long, but all of the letters are vowels. It is also one of the longest monosyllabic words of the English language. Strengths has only nine letters, but all except one of them are consonants! This earns the word a Guinness World Record. This word set the record in the 1990s as the longest word “in common usage.” 7 Strengths 6 Incomprehensibilities (twenty-one-letters) Mary Poppins described it as the word to use “when you have nothing to say.” It appears in some (but not all) dictionaries. 5 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (thirty-four letters) Originally described opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England, but now it may refer to any opposition to withdrawing government support of a particular church or religion. 4 Antidisestablishmentarianism (twenty-eight letters) Ironically, floccinaucinihilipilification is a pretty valueless word itself it’s almost never used except as an example of a long word. The estimation of something as valueless. 3 Floccinaucinihilipilification (twenty-nine letters)

2 Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (thirty letters)Ī mild form of inherited pseudohypoparathyroidism that simulates the symptoms of the disorder but isn’t associated with abnormal levels of calcium and phosphorus in the blood. It takes three hours to say the whole thing! 14 of the longest words in English 1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (forty-five letters)Ī lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica or quartz dust. If you’re including technical words, the longest English word- and longest word in the world-is this word, a chemical name for a protein that is 189,819 letters long. The longest English word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is forty-five letters long and refers to a type of lung disease.

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