Pronounce the whole word. Hi-poh-po-toh-mon-stroh-ses-kwee-peh-dah-leejoh-foh-beeja.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest words in the dictionary — and, in an ironic twist, is the name for a fear of long words. Sesquipedalophobia is another term for the phobia. The American Psychiatric Association doesn't officially recognize this phobia.
The longest English word
The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and takes 3 hours to pronounce. This is a technical term for the chemical composition of titin. Titin is the largest known protein responsible for maintaining the passive elasticity of the muscles.
The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.
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.
A word of warning… the “word” takes about 3.5 hours to say. The word is 189,819 letters long. It's actually the name of a giant protein called Titin.
How do you say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis backwards? Sisoinoconaclovociliscipocsorcimartluonomuenp is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis spoken backwards.
Noun. hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (uncountable) (humorous) The fear of long words.
1. 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.
Bananaphobia: Fear of Bananas is Real.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English dictionary at 45 letters and it refers to a lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust.
Found in the Oxford English Dictionary, it's the name of a lung disease. Many people don't count it either, though, since it was created to win a puzzle contest in 1935. The longest word that most people can agree upon as being a “real” word is the 28-letter antidisestablishmentarianism.
The shortest word is a. Some might wonder about the word I since it consists of one letter, too. In sound, a is shorter because it is a monophthong (consists of one vowel), while I is a diphthong. Both do consist of one letter in the English writing system, and in most fonts I is the narrowest letter.
It is the chemical name for titin, the largest protein known. The longest word in the English dictionary however, is the 45-letter word "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", which refers to a lung disease.
Often cited as the longest non-technical word in the English language, being one letter longer than the commonly cited antidisestablishmentarianism. It is the longest word ever recorded by Hansard after Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg used the word in Parliament on 21 February 2012.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is a big word. The first part of the word is Greek for six hundred sixty-six. The second part of the word, phobia, is Greek for fear or aversion. So, hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia translates to fear of the number 666.
Mother, bark and spit are just three of 23 words that researchers believe date back 15,000 years, making them the oldest known words.