Longest word in the English language…
Posted on | July 30, 2002 | 45 Comments
The longest word in the english language is pneaumonaultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis…It’s a lung disease contracted from breathing in too much volcanic dust settlement…
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August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
RapMastaB is wrong – If it was replaced by another word, what was it? I’ll believe it is the longest until proven otherwise.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
not true – This WAS the longest word in the dictionary for a very long time, until a new one replaced it.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Didn’t it… – Didn’t it used to be antidisestablishmentarianism? pneaumonaultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis seems too fake to me. Ya RapMastahB what is the new one? How the hell do you pronounce that last one? /me uses phonetics – know-mon-all-trah-my-crow-skop-icks-illy-koe-fulk-ah-know-konny-oh-sys.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
I thought this was the longest word: – floccinaucinihilipilification -> The act of finding out if something is wrong. It must have been bumped from its top spot.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Using a keyboard, what’s the longest word, using only the left hand fingers? – It’s stewardesses!
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Incorrect!! – I believe that the longest word in the english language is the chemical name for Tryprophan Synthetase, a chemical that has something to do with sleep. Frankly though, I do not believe that there is enough space to type out the whole damn thing, and it would take far too long anyway.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
The longest has over 1900 letters!! – Hildi is right!!! The longest actual world is some chemical and it consists of over 1900 letters…..
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Etc…Miscellany – The longest word I know of is a couple hundred (Thousand?) letters that describe the cycle/metamorphisis of a cell.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
F – The letter “f” (Lower Case) is one of the only letters in the alphabet where more than 70% of it is written upwards
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
1909 letters, actually. – It isn’t really a word, it’s a chemical. Anyway, here goes… ionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylyalylthreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucelalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutaminylasparaginylalanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalylphenylalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalanyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprolylvalylglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylanylalanylleucylprolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvalylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucylbalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanylvalylglutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Sorry – Here it is again, in a more readable format. ionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenyla lanylyalylthreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspa rtylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucelalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutaminylasparaginylalanylthreo nylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglu taminyllysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalylphenylalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucyla spartylglutamylphenylalanyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprolylvalylglutaminylgluta mylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylasp artylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylalanylgl ycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylanylalanylleucylprolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvalylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylala nylalanylprolylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycylalanylala nylglycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucylbalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethiony lleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanylvalylglutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Interminable – The longest word by far is “sermon.”
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
crucify – holy crap…too many y’s…who would make a word that is THAT long anyhow? did they actually want to read it in the end?
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
wow – and all this time I thought the longest word was antidisestablishmentarianism
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
omg – that is one hell of a long word. I thought it was pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
TOTALLY wrong. – pneaumonaultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the wrong spelling. It is spelled pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I am 14 and I even know that! At least spell it right
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
o MY GOsh – Isn’t this all swell…you guys have an awful lot of time on your hands..no offense or anything but like how do you find the time to write out these words letter by letter?????
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
.. – Chemical names are only so long because they identify them by structure, the more complex a structure, the more complex the name, but I still feel that prefixes would have been used, 1-2-3 tri, tetra, dodeca, et cetera. However I will not even attempt to draw this chemical to see if I can give at a more abbreviated name, and dear Phoebe, It is not really that hard to type letter by letter… In fact there is no other way, but for this site, regarding Tryprophan Synthetase, I think someone went to a site it which the chemical was actually already written out, and just used Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V or Command+C then Command+V if they were on a mac.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
While I am at it…. – ZevioPiko: There are many names used to describe the cycle of a cell… and they are only about… 10-15 letters long… Just an approximation of letters.
And on a more humourous note: The longest word is “Smiled.” Why? Because there is a mile between the first and the last letter.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Oh My God!!!!!!!!!!! – i think yall need to get a life and quit reading the dictionary!! i mean hell, it’s called P-A-R-T-Y!!! hello?????????
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
What??? – To boiledmoose Stop using those big fancy words!! And I thought language was a big word. Sheesh.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Wrong. – You guys are all wrong it is Methionylglutaminylarginytyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminyll-eucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanyvalylprolylphenylalanyl-valythreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolyglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysyl-isoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucy-lglutamylleucylglycylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucelalanyla-spartyglycylprolythreonylisoleucylglutamiylasparaginylalanylthreonylleucylarginylala-nylphenylalanylalanylglycylvalyltheonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanygll-utamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthreonyl-isoleucylpriIylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalyp-henylalanylasparaginyllysylgyycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalanyltyrosylalanyl-gutaminyllcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylavlylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylasp-artylvalyprolylvalylglutaminylglutamyllserylalanyprolyphenylalanylarginylglutaminylal-anylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvaylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleu-cylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginyglutam-inylisoleucylalanyylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylser-ylarginylalanylglycylvalythreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylanylalanylleu-cylprolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvaylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasarag-inylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylala-nylisoleucylaspartylalanylalanyglycylalanylalanyglycylalanylisoleucylserylglycyseryla-lanylisoleucylbalyllsylisoleucylisoleucylglutamyyylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisole-ucylglutamylprolyglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalaby-lvalylglutaminlylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine – “Scientific name for Trypthophan synthetase (that is a protien with 267 amino acids) (1 909 letters)
** – deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is alleged to have 207 000 letters, but has never been printed in full.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
So what? – To STLCutiePie3 I’m only 11 and I got a word more than 50 time s longer than yours so quit the show-offiness
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
haha someone needs to learn to spell – its spelled pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
not pneaumonaultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis sheesh if your goin to put a fact up make sure you can spell
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
u ppl need to get a life – How about all u damn ppl get a damn life. Is that the only thing u guys kan do is write out these long-ass words letter-by-letter? You guys must have a lot of time on ur hands. You guys need to get a FUCKING life.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
HELLO IM RANDOM – the longest word in the dictionary is…….supercalifragilisticakespialidocious………no, im only kidding, the longest word is “dog” now lets all go to bed and eat asparagus.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
O_O; – daaaamn, sum ppl did their homework… and took thirty minutes to write it out on the keyboard…
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
UH.. – The only thing I can say is it’s sad how you all think you’re out-doing each other…sad sad sad…it’s such a shame how earth is going straight to hell…the longest word.. PATHETIC
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
words – i thought that the longest word was the word that means “fear of long words” i dont remember wat it is
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
>_> – First, to everyone saying “get a life, why are you doing this you nerds, etc”: If you hate us so much, why are you here?
Anyway, someone who fears long words is hippomontrosesquipedelian, I believe… the spelling’s probably wrong though.
Also, it would make sense that the complete word for DNA would be huge…
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
i agree with the original fact – The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwh
enuakita, a New Zealand hill
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
wait a minute…i didnt get all the last one – The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakita natahu, a New Zealand hill.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
spelling – I think it’s rather sad that people are complaining about a spelling mistake in a thousand or so letter word but yet they themselves can’t even be bothered to spell their message correctly, or worse completely spell out a word. Like typing ppl instead of writing ‘people’ out. Come on, it’s not that much extra effort.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
you idiots – we are talking about the longest word in the dictionary. And when I said dictionary I meant “English Dictionary”. The word you are relating to a chemical is the scientific name of the chemical. Scientific names are derived from the Italian language and others but NOT ENGLISH! So think people! THINK!
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
blah – A staggering 1913 letters. I mean come oON people who can beat this without making something up! and this is true, my dad is a scientist and i asked him if this was true and he said yes but they dont put it in the dictionary, you have to look it up on google.com methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalany
lalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalany
lphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylvalylthreonylleucylglycylaspa
rtylprolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleu
cylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspar
tylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylser
ylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonyliso
leucylglutaminylaspfraginylalanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylpheny
lalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcyste
inylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucylalanylleucylisoleucylargin
ylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylgl
ycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalylpheny
lalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalany
ltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylva
lylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprolylvalylglu
taminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutaminylalan
ylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanylprolylisoleucy
lphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalanylaspartyl
aspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryl
tyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylseryl
arginylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparag
inylarginylalanylalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhistidylleucy
lvalylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalany
lprolylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylser
ylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylas
partylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylser
ylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhi
stidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethio
nylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanylvalylglutaminylp
rolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
………. – DNA names are in the Science category not in the Languages category or to be more specific not even in the English dictionary. Try to think clearly as to what you are saying and what you are talking about.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
? – one month long akward silence? did someone kill everybody? or were you trying to break some sort of twisted record?
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
? – one month long akward silence? did someone kill everybody? or were you trying to break some sort of twisted record?
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Good on yer santana and trivia queen – Good on u 2 cause those people who worte those long as words out wasted a hell of a lot of time and to u santana i have a FUCKING life so i believe the longest word in the english language is Smiles (because there is a mile between the first and last letters.) =-)
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
To berzirk – Thank you for noticing that i did silenced the pitiful morons who cannot distinguish what language English is!
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
wrong – I thought that was the longest for a while. It’s a real word, also known as black lung disease (I’m pretty sure.) That chemical is the longest word, I actually looked it up in a dictionary I have of useless words. Also, Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. I’m not kidding.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Words & Chemicals – Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis is definitely the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary (the definitive unabridged English dictionary), and it does mean what the fact creator said it means (although he spelled it wrong). Chemical names are technically considered to be in “New Latin,” which is NOT the same as the original Latin (which, in fact, had no punctuation, lowercase, or even spaces), and it is most DEFINITELY not Italian (although there are similarities). It is essentially modified Latin expanded to include modern physical terms (no, Californium, Americium, Einsteinium, etc. where not in original Latin). Some of the names, such as Carbon-dioxide, have been included in English, but the more complex ones consisting of hundreds of letters have definitely not. I agree that any given chromosome (coiled strand of DNA) would probably have an extremely long (New Latin) name, considering the fact that it is a single molecule built up of billions of atoms, but there is no way anybody could determine the entire exact chemical makeup of a chromosome, decide its name using the rules of nomenclature, and write it out.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
ur all wrong – if ur talking about non-scientific thenOrnicopytheobiblopsychocrystarroscioaerogenethliometeoroaustrohieroanthropoi- cichthyopyrosiderochpnomyoalectryoophiobotanopegohydrorhabdocrithoaleuroalphi-tohalomolybdoclerobeloaxinocoscinodactyliogeolithopessopscphocatoptrotephraoeir-ochiroomychodactyloarithstichooxogeloscogastrogyrocerobletonooenoscapulinaniac- “A deluded human who practices divination or forecasting” (310 letters) is the longest
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
ur all wrong – there is a space in between then and the O
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
typing dosen’t take that long – I can type 100 words per minute, but it’s in my own language