What is the longest word in English? What would be your answer if this question is asked from you? We can’t enter your mind, but we definitely know that you would never think that the longest word in English consists of a total 189,189 letters! Yes, that one word if written would take around fifty-seven pages (we don’t even dare to write that draconian word here). It is a chemical name for the titin protein found in humans. There is a complete one hour+ YouTube video dedicated to the pronunciation of this word. Dictionaries have some limitation, so it often omits such words. Still, you will find plenty of serpentine words.

Let us spare a few minutes to get acquainted with some of them.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Consist of forty-five letters, this word is the name of a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash or silica dust.

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (PPHP) refers to an inherited disorder. This thirty letter word is used to describe a condition where the affected person has the phenotypic appearance of Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism type 1a but is biochemically normal.

Floccinaucinihilipilification

This twenty-nine letter word is used to refer an act or habit of describing something as worthless, having no value or unimportant. The word is believed to be a jocular coinage by (perhaps) pupils of Eton College and is comprised of a number of roughly synonyms of Latin words.

Subdermatoglyphic

Although subdermatoglyphic contains only 17 characters, it is the longest accepted isogram (a word in which every letter has been used only once). The word refers to the underlying dermal matrix that decides the pattern formed by arches, ridges of our fingerprints.

Squirrel(l)ed

On first glance, you will never mind any extraordinary features in this word. However, with 11 letters, Squirrelled is the longest non-coined monosyllabic (having only one syllable or utterance, like ‘no’) English word! Well, that’s quite interesting.

Incomprehensibilities

Even you have never used this word, it is pretty easy to read and pronounce this twenty-one letters term. It is believed to be the longest word in common usage.

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