What word takes 3hrs to say?

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.

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What word takes 3 hours to say the chemical name of titin?

So what's the word? Wikipedia's says that it's "Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl ... isoleucine" (ellipses necessary), which is the "chemical name of titin, the largest known protein." Also, there's some dispute about whether this is really a word.

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What is the 3 longest word in English?

14 of the Longest Words in English
  1. 1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (forty-five letters): ...
  2. 2 Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (thirty letters): ...
  3. 3 Floccinaucinihilipilification (twenty-nine letters): ...
  4. 4 Antidisestablishmentarianism (twenty-eight letters):

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How do you spell the word that takes 3.5 hours to say?

That's called: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and it's one of the longest words in the dictionary.

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How long does it take to say Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl isoleucine?

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… 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.

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What is the 189 819 letter word full?

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.

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What is the 52 letter word Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic?

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.

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What word has 36 letters?

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters)

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What word has 183 letters in English?

The longest word in the English language, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, won primary school speller Jemimah Elise Sampson, the East Coast Radio's Last Kid Standing title, as seen in the video below published by the East Coast Radio.

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What is the 2nd longest word in English?

In fact, most of the very long words in the dictionary are scientific terms: the second-longest word is electroencephalographically, which has 27 letters, and means 'by means of an electroencephalograph' (referring to a machine used to record brain activity).

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What's the longest real word?

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word entered in the most trusted English dictionaries.

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What is the longest word in German?

The longest word in the standard German dictionary is Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung – which is the word for motor vehicle liability insurance. But at 36 letters, it's rather puny. Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften, a touch longer at 39 letters, is the language's longest non-dictionary word.

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What starts with P and ends with E?

"Post Office" starts with 'P', ends with 'E' and has a million letters in it. Explanation: Sometimes, Logical questions are not so complicated to answer, just logical thinking is necessary to find out the answer.

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Is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious the longest word?

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a real word but is not the longest word in the dictionary. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the dictionary.

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What is the 4 longest word in the world?

Here's how Merriam-Webster defines the ten longest words in the English language.
  1. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) ...
  2. Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters) ...
  3. Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) ...
  4. Honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters) ...
  5. Thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters)

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How many letters is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

If not, you might be facing a case of hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Did you figure out what it means? Yes, this 36-letter word means the “fear of long words.”

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What is the longest spelling bee word?

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.

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What is the longest Greek word?

392 BC) Aristophanes coined the 173-letter word Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleio-lagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon, a fictional food dish consisting of a combination of fish and other meat.

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What is the shortest word in the world?

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.

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What is the 27th letter in the alphabet?

Total number of letters in the alphabet

Until 1835, the English Alphabet consisted of 27 letters: right after "Z" the 27th letter of the alphabet was ampersand (&). The English Alphabet (or Modern English Alphabet) today consists of 26 letters: 23 from Old English and 3 added later.

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What is the weirdest 5 letter word?

11 unusual 5-letter words to kick off your next Wordle game
  • ADIEU. Adieu means the same as goodbye. ...
  • TARES. Any of various vetch plants, such as Vicia hirsuta (hairy tare) of Eurasia and North Africa.
  • SOARE. ...
  • DUCAT. ...
  • OUIJA. ...
  • CAROM. ...
  • ERGOT. ...
  • CRAIC.

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