The Top Five Longest Words In The World (2024)

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What is a 190000 letter word? ›

isoleucine”. That's the scientific name for the largest protein in the human body, scientifically known as 'titin,' made up of over 190,000 letters. Yep, you heard that right! It's so long that if you tried to put it in the English dictionary, it would need more than fifty pages just for the word alone.

In that case, what's the longest word in the English language dictionary? It's pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic, at 52 letters, describing the spa waters at Bath, England, is attributed to Dr. Edward Strother (1675–1737).

isoleucine is the chemical name for the protein of “titin” also known as “connectin.” The largest known protein that consists of 26, 926 amino acids is made up of 189, 819 letters and can take about three hours to pronounce.

Answer and Explanation:

The three shortest words in the English language are I, a, and o although the word o is only usually used in poetry and song lyrics as a contraction or other words. Other than single-letter words there are numerous 2-letter words in English such as on, if and many others.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters)

Being the second longest word in the dictionary, it is ironic that hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the name for a fear of long words.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is used to describe something that is extremely good, super, amazing, or excellent. It is a real world and is listed in most dictionaries. It was made famous in the 1964 Disney movie Mary Poppins which features a song that uses the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters): Synonymous for silicosis, it is a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silica dust. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters): The fear of long words; not recognized by the American Psychiatric Association.

What is the Longest Word in the English Language, More Than 100 Letters? To answer the burning question of what the longest word in the English language is, let's start with a behemoth that's certainly no stranger to word enthusiasts: “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.”

What is the 200,000 letter word? ›

As we saw at the start of our hunt, according to a lot of sources the longest word is the technical name for the protein titin. It is the same across all languages and has nearly 200,000 letters. Here's a snippet of the first 1,000 characters!

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.

In dictionaries, j, q, and z are found the least, but some of the words are rarely used. And if you value the opinion of cryptologists (people who study secret codes and communication), x, q, and z make the fewest appearances in the writing scene.

The longest recognized systematic name is for the protein titin, at 189,819 letters.

And 190000 in words is written as One Hundred and Ninety Thousand.

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic. This is the longest word in English which is composed of seven words. This 52-letter word was coined by Dr. Edward Strother to describe the spa waters in Bath, England.

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… The chemical name for the protein titin, which spans over 189 thousand letters, is often argued to be the longest word in the world. Its absurd length is due to the fact that proteins are named by combining the names of all of the individual amino acids used to form them.