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Schmaltzed and strengthed (10 letters) appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in The Oxford English Dictionary, while scraunched and scroonched appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in Webster's Third New International Dictionary; but squirrelled (11 letters) is the longest if pronounced as one syllable only (as ...
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language. The word can be analysed as follows: Pneumono: from ancient Greek (πνεύμων, pneúmōn) which means lungs; ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond; micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the fineness of ...
The 45-letter word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest English word that appears in a major dictionary. [38] [39] Originally coined to become a candidate for the longest word in English, the term eventually developed some independent use in medicine. [40] It is referred to as "P45" by researchers. [41]
Surprisingly, neither of these is the longest word in English. ... According to Dictionary.com, this is the longest word that appears in an English dictionary and is 45 letters long.
I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. It's antidisestablishmentarianism. Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed.
The English word antidisestablishmentarianism (UK / ˌ æ n t i d ɪ s ɪ ˌ s t æ b l ɪ ʃ m ə n ˈ t ɛər i ə n ɪ z əm / ⓘ US / ˌ æ n t aɪ-/ ⓘ) is notable for its unusual length of 28 letters and 12 syllables, and is one of the longest words in the English language. [1]
This is a list of candidates for the longest English word of one syllable, i.e. monosyllables with the most letters. A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled. [1] Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed. [2] Other sources include words as long ...
cwtch (a hiding place or cubby hole) is also from Welsh (albeit a recent word influenced by English, and used almost exclusively in the variant of English spoken in Wales, not in standard English), and crwth and cwtch are the longest English dictionary words without a, e, i, o, u, y according to Collins Dictionary. [9]