Table of Contents
What is the 2nd longest word in English?
electroencephalographically
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).
What is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia mean?
fear of long words
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 fear or anxiety is persistent and the social situation is excessively avoided.
What is the average length of a word in the English language?
The average length of a word in most documents is just over 5. (average english word length) The vast majority of the words in the dictionary are longer than 5 letters, but the shorter ones appear that much more often.
What are the five longest words in the English Dictionary?
METHIONYLTHREONYLTHREONYGLUTAMINYLARGINYL ISOLEUCINE. Note the ellipses.
How many letters does the longest English word have?
The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and would take you three and a half hours to pronounce correctly.
What is the biggest word in the English language?
Major dictionaries. 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 .