85 - letter place name is the longest english word in the dictionary.
85 - letter place name is the longest english word in the dictionary.
what is the longest english word in the dictionary?
85 - letter place name
the 45-letter word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest english word that appears in a major dictionary.









































antidisestablishmentarianism, at 28 letters, is the longest non-coined, non-systematic english word in oxford dictionaries. it refers to a 19th-century political movement that opposed the disestablishment of the church of england as the state church of england.









































floccinaucinihilipilification, at 29 letters and meaning the act of estimating something as being worth so little as to be practically valueless, or the habit of doing so, is the longest non-technical, coined word in oxford dictionaries of the english language.









































section::::esperanto.
longest words
list of the longest english words with one syllable









































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". "guinness world records" lists "scraunched" and "strengthed". other sources include words as long or longer. some candidates are questionable on grounds of spelling, pronunciation, or status as obsolete, nonstandard, proper noun, loanword, or nonce word.









































section::::proper names.
list of the longest english words with one syllable