The longest word in various languages depends on what language you refer to. In English for example, it is pneumonoultramicroscopic-silicovolcanoconiosis, 45 letters long (no hyphen). This was a coined word which has the same meaning as the word "silicosis".
The 28-letter antidisestablishmentarianism is often referred to as the longest, and it is the longest "noncoined, nontechnical" word in English. Other long words include the name for the tobacco mosaic virus (1185 letters) or the enzyme "trypthophan synthetase" (1909 or 1913 letters).
The actual longest word in the world is 189,819 letters long. It is the chemical name for the largest known protein, called 'titin'.
Other languages
German boasts some fearsomely long compound words and Finnish commonly has words of fifteen letters, and a twenty-five letter word would not be seen as strange. But polysynthetic languages, like Inuit languages, take the cake. The thirty-letter long Inuit word tuntussuqatarniksaitengqiggtuq means "He had not yet said again that he was going to hunt reindeer."
* For longest words in other languages, see the related link.
Hungarian (447 letters)
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vizsgálatszervezésellenőrzésiügyosztálylétszámle
építésellenesakciócsoporttagságiigazolványmegújítá-
sikérelemelutasítóhatározatgyűjteményértékesítőn-
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It refers to a committee and its cognizance. Of course in reality, such a committee could not exist; in addition, it contradicts the Hungarian ortography.
Maori
The longest Maori place name is:
Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu
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Which translates as: "the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as 'landeater', played his Flute to his loved one."
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This is the longest word in the world, and it is swedish.
Answer
Actually, it's not possible to determine the longest word in the world, because there is no universally accepted definition of what constitutes a word.
By loose definitions, there are many English words that are longer than the swedish word listed above, including the following two English words:
1. Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
2. The chemical name for Titin, which is 189,819 letters long. See related links for the full word.
In the Guinness Book of World Records 2008 it does not say what the longest word in the English language is. However according to me, the longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
1,909 letters in the longest word
The longest word in the English Language is Pneumonoultramicroscophicsilicovolcanoconiosis
RHYTHMS is the longest world having no vowels. there is no nine letter word having no vowels
The longest word that can be made up from the letters "qwertyuiop" is the following:Typewriter
Well, isn't that a fun question! The longest English word, "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," has a total of 19 syllables. Isn't that just delightful? Remember, every word is like a happy little tree in the forest of language.
One can find the longest word in the dictionary, to be more specific, the Merriam-Webster online, the word has letters but still not the longest word in the world.
Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest non-technical word with 28 letters
Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl...isoleucine. It has 189819 letters and the longest word in the world.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is not a phobia word its a lung disease but it is still the longest word in the world.
The longest word in the world is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," which is a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silicate or quartz dust. It is more commonly known as pneumoconiosis.
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The Finish word of Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas.
Yes.
1909
It means the longest word in the world