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Bisidualironicityismic

Bisidualironicityismic is a non- coined word for irony, hypocrisy. It is 22 letters long. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.255.2.78 (talk) 04:14, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Palindromic word - redivider

As to long palindromic words, I recall a 70s-80s Guinness Book of Records mentioning "redivider", which is equally as long as "rotavator" given in this article. Although I haven't located the book, the quotes given in http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/redivider should be sufficient to merit its inclusion here. 182.239.145.49 (talk) 05:24, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Long personal names

While lists of long personal names are not apparent on WP, because of ease of creation at birth, lack of centralized topic, and typical case-by-case nonnotability, these concerns all appear to be remediable oversights. List of long names has no creation history even though List of long place names exists, and Longest name redirects to Wolfe+585, Senior. So I am creating a stub section and redirecting those two titles. JJB 16:58, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Constructions

In the section under 'Constructions' the word antidisestablishmentarianistic is longer than the -ism form, being of a nature inclined toward the movement or ideology that opposes disestablishment.

220.233.210.54 (talk) 02:19, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

See the Wiktionary entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.180.92 (talk) 03:35, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Names of chemical compounds

The article states without source that the systematic name for some protein is the longest word in english. This is a tricky subject, as names of chemical compounds can be infinitely long. If you want to describe a compound that is that protein but with some more atoms added onto it (adding atoms onto known compounds is something chemists routinely do), you end up with an even longer word.

92.151.218.57 (talk) 10:22, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

another long word?

I feel puzzled why they didn't put in hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, a word with 35 letters and 15 syllables that means 'fear of long words'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.237.104.106 (talk) 00:27, 18 November 2013 (UTC)


...semihemidemisemihemidemisemihemidemisemiquaver is the British terminology for musical notation. The displayed "value" is a 1024th note.

Semi-protected edit request on 28 January 2014

Under Technical terms change: 

  "...so the sequence of one its strands, if written out in full like..."

to "...so the sequence of one of its strands, if written out in full like..."

small grammatical adjustment. 71.163.86.22 (talk) 23:09, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Done, thanks! LittleMountain5 01:18, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Untitled

Note: There is no category for long words. Do not create one; this has already been discussed at WP:CFD log. --Fayenatic london 13:50, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 24 June 2014

Main title & subtitle = "Words with certain characteristics of notable length - Typed words" (section 7.1) Second bullet point: Longest English words typable using only the top row of letters.

Currently shows 'rupturewort' (11 letters) as the longest word. Please add 'proprietory' (alternative spelling of 'proprietary') to this, as it too has 11 letters. Because of this change, you also need to change the grammar of the preceding phrase to refer to the plural ("The longest English words ... have ...").

To the same bullet point, please add 'pirouetter' (someone who does pirouettes) to the list of ten letter words.

86.25.3.213 (talk) 11:23, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Can you give a link to a reliable source that backs up your claim that 'proprietory' is an alternative spelling of 'proprietary'? It's not that I doubt you, but that seems like it is something that would be frequently contested if there wasn't a source. Thanks. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 12:23, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Edit request, 25 Sept 2014

"The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus. However, this is arguably both Latin and a proper noun. There are several six-letter English words with their letters in alphabetical order, including abhors, almost, begins, biopsy, chimps and chintz."

...and a seven-letter word, billowy, which should be on the page instead of these six-letter also-rans. The same source cited lists this word. 2.24.119.121 (talk) 21:36, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 March 2015

I would like to add a link to a video that has many of these words in them, and is a bit more in depth on what they are. Arenfrow (talk) 05:48, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

 Not done This is not the right page to request additional user rights.
If you want to suggest such a change, please provide a link to the video you want to be considered.
Please note there are quite strict rules on external links - the number of them, avoiding spam sites and their copyright status - as explained at WP:EL. - Arjayay (talk) 10:35, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Edit to chart

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is a fear of long words and 35 letters ```` WeilderoftheFlameofAnor 11/4/14 — Preceding unsigned comment added by WeilderoftheFlameofAnor (talk • contribs) 02:46, 5 November 2014 (UTC)


If you recognise antidisestablishmentarialism, then wouldn't you also recognise the people who purport this philosophy, namely antidisestablishmentarialists (29 letters)?
PR for life! (no literally, those are my initials for life, barring some mid-life crisis where I start to refer to myself as Stratosferos, creator of stars)
Stratosferos 11:32, 23 May 2015 (UTC)Stratosferos

Semi-protected edit request on 13 June 2015

add 'hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' to list 100.36.174.149 (talk) 18:45, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Done (talk to) TheOtherGaelan('s contributions) 19:10, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
 Not done
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a common misspelling of hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia "perhaps on purpose, to make the word even longer".
As to whether we should include the latter, I note that TheOtherGaelan has added the correct spelling, but as this is a "Jocular or fictional" phobia I think its inclusion needs some form of consensus. - Arjayay (talk) 19:17, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
In terms of the use-mention distinction, has this word really ever been used, as opposed to made up for fun and then endlessly mentioned, with no foundation of uses to justify all those mentions? The double-p is a fiction in any event, because the underlying word is "sesquipedalian", which has only one "p", and there is neither an etymological nor common-usage-based justification for two of them. —Largo Plazo (talk) 20:24, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
There was much discussion about this years ago; it's a made-up word that misuses the root ("hippo" means horse, not big) and isn't notable enough for mention anyway. I removed it. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 21:55, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

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Add Request: Additional Data on Dvorak Keyboard

Under Notable Long Words > Typed Words:

  • Since the Dvorak keyboard has the most-used letters on the home row, there are many long words that can be made on the center row alone. The longest word that can be made on the center row of the Dvorak keyboard (AOEUIDHTNS) is instantaneousnesses (19 letters), followed by ostentatiousnesses (18 letters).[1] The longest vulgar word that can be typed on the center row is shittinesses (12 letters).

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References

  1. ^ http://www.litscape.com/word_tools_mammoth_uncensored/words_using_these_letters_only.php

Longest Word with Letters in Alphabetical Order

"The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus. However, this is arguably both Latin and a proper noun. There are several six-letter English words with their letters in alphabetical order, including abhors, almost, begins, biopsy, chimps and chintz."

If Aegilops does not count then the longest is 7, not 6: billowy — Preceding unsigned comment added by IEllmen (talk • contribs) 21:39, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

  • "Billowy" has a pair of repeated L's, so it presumably doesn't count. It's worth mentioning, though. TheFizzyNator (talk) 12:49, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Longest word consisting of vowels.

Aiaiai is a name applied in South American to the roseate spoonbill, or in Paraguay to the jabiru. Ref. the entry in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia. Like euouae, aiaiai is six letters long. --173.195.255.76 (talk) 03:08, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

But "aiaiai" isn't an English word. You gave "roseate spoonbill" and "jabiru" as the English equivalents. This article is "Longest word in English". —Largo Plazo (talk) 11:05, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

The source referred to (Century Dictionary) does not tag the word aiaiai as foreign or anything other than standard. Presumably it has been used by English speakers in the regions where the birds are found. The dictionary cited does give the word's source as a native name. However, it also gives the source of "jabiru" as a Tupi word. Unabridged dictionaries contain many common names for plants and animals that are taken directly from native languages, yet they are listed untagged as part of the lexicon. (Note that "euouae" derives from the Latin "seculorum amen", yet is accepted as an English word.) I welcome any pointers to written standards for determining which words in use by English speakers are in fact English words and which are foreign, or for determining which untagged entries in English dictionaries are in fact foreign words. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.195.255.76 (talk) 18:48, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

You wrote "is a name applied in South America". Presumably, the people calling it "aiaiai" in South America are doing so in the course of speaking in their native language, whether that be Spanish or Portuguese or Dutch or Sranan Tongo or French or Quechua or Aymara or any number of other languages, but not, unless they're from Guyana, English. —Largo Plazo (talk) 21:30, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

You may be right. English is undoubtedly spoken alongside native tongues in the countries in question, both by some natives and by others, but it only has official standing in Guyana. Of course, borrowings from other languages are common in English, and some eventually become legitimated as English usage, and I see no reason why that could not have occurred in this case. But I don't know the rules for such determinations; about all I can say is, it's in the dictionary cited, not tagged as a foreign word, but from the etymology clearly borrowed from a native word. In that it seems similar to many other words. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.195.255.76 (talk) 23:23, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Omission of "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia"?

I am curious as to why hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is not included in the list. It is a valid clinical term that (ironically) means fear of long words. See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia for definitions. GlobalFamilies 06:48, 29 October 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Globalfamilies (talk • contribs)

Antidisestablishmentarianism: is it a word?

Merriam-Webster dictionary argues convincingly that "antidisestablishmentarianism" is not a word — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.15.210.128 (talk) 14:03, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Longest Palindrome

Article has "rotavator"(9) as the longest English palindrome. Wiktionary includes "detartrated"(11), and with some search, I was able to find apparently serious uses of the word in print. Phildonnia (talk) 21:25, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 October 2016


"hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia" is the word for the fear of long words, and is a very long word itself. 1o8o984 (talk) 18:39, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

It's already in the article. Meters (talk) 18:48, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

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7 letter alphabetical word

Billowy. It is in Merriam Webster, Oxford Dictionaries, and Collins. Google Chrome does not give it a red underline.--Simplificationalizer (talk) 15:32, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Good find - are you going to update the article? Toss out the six-letter words. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 15:42, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

No mention of 'Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia' (the fear of long words). It has 36 letters. Sunomi64 (talk) 21:44, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Because it's not an actual word that gets used anywhere. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 00:19, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Define 'actual word'. As far as I know any word with a defined meaning is an 'actual word' in a language that has no governing body. Dictionary.com (one of if not the most used dictionaries in the internet age) recognizes it, as do countless other sites that can be found from a quick search. Oldest reference I found on Google Books was in 'Introduction to Psychology: Exploration and Application' by Dennis Coon, 1980 (link breaks itself in WML for some reason). I've personally known of the word since I was given a lesson about long English words in school (American public school). The word also seems well known, significantly more so than some of the words featured in the article. Sunomi64 (talk) 02:44, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Your book reference is interesting, although I can't find it doing a search. I only find the word showing up in jokey, non-academic books about long words that will print anything, and which is why I've long regarded this as not a real word and have been against variants of it being included. But I'm probably doing the search wrong!
Assuming you're right, why should we list it here? This isn't an article about any quirky long word we can find - this word is notable only because of its cutesy self-reference. There are lots of long words that have been created in recent decades by pasting together tidbits (the "hippopoto-" prefix is ridiculous) so what's notable enough about this word it should be included in this article's fairly short list? Personally, I don't see anything. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 15:33, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Spell out the words!

A lot of these entries have ... in the middle. The full word isn't even viewable in the view source page.

Thank you for volunteering to type out the 189,819 letters of the chemical name of titin .... - DavidWBrooks (talk) 11:23, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

longest words in eglish

the list of english longest words given in not usable in daily language. ther must be a list of daily using longest words familiar to every one likely acknowledgement. the chemical names and some medical terminologies i think are not known to every one and like to be impracticable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.90.122.10 (talk) 08:44, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Nice idea, but how do you define "daily language"? Here are the last few entries of a list of 45,000 words (a version of the Unix words file):

19 anthropomorphically 19 incomprehensibility 19 straightforwardness 20 electroencephalogram 20 Mediterraneanization 20 nondeterministically 21 electroencephalograph 21 Mediterraneanizations 22 electroencephalography 28 antidisestablishmentarianism

Which of these count as "daily language"? Here are their approximate relative frequencies in English-language books:
120 electroencephalography (22)
40 electroencephalograph (21)
250 electroencephalogram (20)
150 incomprehensibility = straightforwardness (19)
500 telecommunications (18)
I don't have the patience to check 17-letter words (there are 57 in the words file).
It may be that the EEG words are overrepresented because the voluminous medical literature is swamping other genres... how can we tell?
I'm not sure how we could add this information to the article, though; working off words and ngrams seems like original research.
Perhaps [1] could be used. --Macrakis (talk) 16:01, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Protected edit request

The second word on the table needs explanation. Which polypeptide is this? 108.210.219.2 (talk) 18:28, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 February 2018

173.66.30.212 (talk) 02:19, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

edit request : Under some English rules prefixes and postfixes can make worlds longer(Using the standard etomalogic dictionary formatting as a reasonable source of data on English as well as common pre-inclusive expansible English terminology factorization )

Prefixes and suffixes are mentioned under the section "Agglutinative construction". Forgive me, but I can't figure out what you want to add or change. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 02:42, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Nihlus 21:11, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

The longest word without a vowel is rhythms

The explanation is the consideration of "y" as a consonant, but in English the letter "y" can be used as a vowel or a consonant. In fact, y is usually a vowel in English. Also note that y in English is never a consonant in Greek loanwords like "rhythm". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.170.127.208 (talk) 14:48, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I have removed the mention of rhythms as being longest "without a vowel" because that's clearly wrong. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 15:50, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Current URL of the AskOxford reference

Browsing around at archive.org (starting with http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/longestword as this page's 23rd ref currently says) i was eventually lead to https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/what-is-the-longest-english-word ... Still no mention of Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic or Edward Strother, which is what I was looking for at that page... Anyone have a better source for those details? -- 82.77.168.97 (talk) 19:03, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Longest word with letters in alphabetical order

"Billowy" is not mentioned. The same source used for the six-letter words includes it but puts it in a separate category because of the repeated letter, but it's still in alphabetical order. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:41:4300:61E0:A502:2F32:8FFE:1E38 (talk) 12:58, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Edit Request to reflect Collins English Dictionary, longest non-coined word etc

Suggested improvement based on the Collins English Dictionary @ www.collinsdictionary.com

The main table at the start of the article gives the 30-letter word "Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism" as the longest non-coined word in a major dictionary. This isn't correct as the Collins English Dictionary includes the 31-letter word dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane. Major dictionaries section also could be updated to reflect this. http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane

Collins blog post here (http://www.collinsdictionary.com/words-and-language/interesting-words/the-longest-word-in-the-collins-english-dictionary,38,HCB.html) also contains various words with certain characteristics of length, which could usefully be incorporated into this article.


EDIT REQUEST to "longest words with certain characteristics"; longest voewl-only word is a tie between the already-acknowledged Euouae and Uoiauai. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.145.95.151 (talk) 01:04, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Preformatted text

Hello, I'm Rebestalic.

Is there a reason to why the longest words are in "preformatted" font?

Thank you, Rebestalic (talk) 06:05, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

I'm guessing that the author wanted to use a fixed-width font, so that readers can directly compare the lengths of the words. Ross Finlayson (talk) 20:44, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 November 2018

Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (29) is a drug otherwise known as ecstasy. Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). Raxmet user (talk) 03:14, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ayakanaa ( t · c ) 03:33, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Another very long word

There is no mention of hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, 36 letters. Does it not count for some reason, or should I add it to at least the table on the top? VeiledOcean8565 (talk) 20:52, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Isn’t the world’s longest word is Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

The current word has 45 letters but Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia has 50 letters 68.204.15.56 (talk) 02:01, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

English?

One could argue that the first four words in the chart are not "English".

Simply listing them as "technical" doesn't preclude this. There are technical terms which are also, in fact, English -- e.g., "cloud computing", "computer aided design", "authentication", "biometrics", and the like.

But when you just start stringing together a bunch on "methyl's", "ethyls's" and "diacetyl's" and such, is that still really "English"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.253 (talk) 23:17, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

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