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dear whoever you are, i am 13 years old ad i awas reading ripley's believe it or not and there is a greek word that we use ine the english languge. we used it in the middle ages and it means: somebody that is phycic or can see the future. i don't know if it counts because it is greek, but you can...

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is not a real word,but it is jibberish a real word that is about that long is antidistestablishmentarianism, which has three less letters.

I don't think this is a "controversial" thread. I'm moving this to Foo.

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I think this topic has been discussed several times in this forumThe longest word in the worldLongestword in the English dictionaryWorlds longest words and names

I saw a very long thread about this topic, and I wanted to set the record completely straight. You will notice that I mentioned ENGLISH LANGUAGE in the subject. Unless someone can give us a reliable definition for the extremely long finnish word I believe we should refrain from discussing...

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Now these are all "words" but the longest technically "real" word is floccinaucihilipilification

Black_Rose wrote:The longest word in English is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano-coniosis, (45 letters) meaning 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust'. Look it up if you don't believe me! I am sure his answer is the correct...