Talk:Longest word in English/Archive 3

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)
 * Yes check.svg Done, thanks!  Little Mountain  5  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)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg 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. — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (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)

❌ 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)
 * Yes check.svg Done (talk to) TheOtherGaelan('s contributions) 19:10, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

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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Under Notable Long Words > Typed Words: TheFizzyNator (talk) 12:48, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 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). The longest vulgar word that can be typed on the center row is shittinesses (12 letters).

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 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.  Anon 126   (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 02:42, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg 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. https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/mdma-ecstasymolly/ref> 71.84.118.206 (talk) 04:27, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
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"Non-coined" words
All words are coined, so there is no such thing as a "non-coined" word. "Nonce word" is appropriate for some of these, and perhaps "contrived" is better for the others. &mdash; 89.197.103.111 (talk) 14:51, 15 May 2019 (UTC)


 * The term "non-coined" (or "noncoined") is not used in the article at the moment. "Nonce word" and "contrived" are both used. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 18:02, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Longest word where every letter is pronounced.
Electromagnetohydrodynamical. Or possibly Electromagnetohydrodynamicist, if such an occupation exists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:e448:d401:6cac:aa84:bf89:10e7 (talk • contribs) 09:30, November 25, 2019 (UTC)
 * And your source for this claim? Meters (talk) 00:23, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 April 2020
Someone else calculated how many letters are in the huge word. Instead of 189,819 characters there are 217,417 characters in it. You'll see if you go to lettercount.com and paste the text in the textbox and click the button that says "Count characters" and you'll see. I'm not lying. You'll see. Just do it now. I want you to know it and believe in it. Sfj2020 (talk) 14:45, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
 * The text on that page actually contains 27,587 invisible word breaking characters. If you remove those, you will get 189,819 characters. – Thjarkur (talk) 16:55, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Article is using the word "technical" incorrectly
The article claims, in the opening table, that certain words are "technical" when what it actually means is "scientific" (or, to be more precise, a term in chemistry); it then says that the word "antidisestablishmentarianism" is a non-technical word, which is nonsense; it is a technical word in the area of political science. Could this please be corrected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.10.149.6 (talk) 04:32, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 August 2020
My change suggestion is about the following line in the table on top of the article:

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl...isoleucine	189,819	Chemical name of titin, the largest known protein Longest known word overall by magnitudes, takes three and a half hours to pronounce.[1]	Technical; not in dictionary; whether this is a word is disputed

Change the following: By reference number 1, "Longest known word overall by magnitudes, takes three and a half hours to pronounce.[1]" Actually well known Mr. Beast did read out the full word in one of his Youtube Videos in under 2 hours - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZVbzNRUlQI

So "it takes about 2 hours to pronounce" - and not 3.5 hours;-) 5.144.10.188 (talk) 12:04, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 22 September 2020
The longest word typable with only the left hand using conventional hand placement on a QWERTY keyboard is extravagatresses.

Comments on this suggested edit:

The word has 16 letters, while the current items have only 14. If the word is valid, it supercedes those in the current article.

This is and is not original research:

A. "Extravagate" is a verb found in the American Heritage Dictionary (AHD), and other dictionaries. So, the baseline word is definitely valid.

B. It is a verb.

C. It is archaic.

D. Since it is a verb, one can form a noun to indicate a person who does the action connoted by the verb. For example, "to act" leads to the noun "actor."

E. Since it is archaic, it is not at all unreasonable to have a gender-specific representation of the noun form. For example, "act" --> "actor" --> "actress."

F. Plurals are obviously fair game, as indicated by the current candidates on the page.

G. Thus, we have: "extravagate" --> "extravagater/or" --> "extravagatress" --> "EXTRAVAGATRESSES."

So, this isn't actually "research," but an application of standard English rules of grammar and spelling to a recognized word. I came up with this about 10 years ago in response to the suggestion of "stewardesses" at 12 letters. I only mention this to observe, along with actresses, waitresses, and perhaps some others (seamstresses), that a gender specific plural is well within the realm of standard English, particularly given the archaic nature of the base verb.

68.65.35.55 (talk) 00:52, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

9/22/2020

68.65.35.55 (talk) 00:52, 23 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Is it in major dictionaries? - DavidWBrooks (talk) 01:10, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Extravagate is in various dictionaries, including the noted AHD, and various others as evidenced on a google search of the word.

Not every form is in the dictionary. For example, from the current page entry, the plurals "flagfalls" and "galahads" are not found in the AHD (flagfall is not in the 4th edition on my desk.) Nonetheless, if the singular forms are valid, one would not question the validity of the plural forms in most cases (in some cases a plural might not make any sense?)

The AHD provides a "Usage Note" at the entry for "-ess" dealing with words like sculptor/sculptress etc. The -ess ending can be considered unacceptable in usage due to a sexist slant. This does not invalidate the word sculptress, however.

Clearly, all of the pieces are in the authoritative American Heritage Dictionary.

Proposed sentence: "The patriarchy shunned the extravagatresses." (2 or more females who exceeded reasonable bounds or limits.) This is by no means a neologism; it is clearly a part of the English language as it is normally spoken and written. Both sexism, patriarchies, and the word are considered archaic to various extents; the sentence provides an harmonious confluence of this characteristic.

68.65.35.55 (talk) 03:10, 25 September 2020 (UTC)


 * I've removed your email address to save you from spambots.
 * I get zero hits for both Google web and Google books for "extravagatresses", which belies the claim that the word is part of the English language as it is normally spoken and written. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 07:40, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Agreed. We don't list words that editors concoct. Meters (talk) 20:42, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Would confirmation from the Usage Panel at AHD be sufficient?

68.65.35.55 (talk) 10:00, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

remove Floccinaucinihilipilification
I would like to remove Floccinaucinihilipilification from the table. It's yet another contrived coinage and lacks citation for the its claim - which is a pretty bogus claim anyway, since what does "unchallenged" mean? Would anybody object? - DavidWBrooks (talk) 19:36, 2 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Well, no response yet so let's give it a shot and see if there's a reaction. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 20:02, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Edit request - longest words in alphabetical order
The section on longest words in alphabetical order cites the 7-letter words beefily and billowy, which have repeated letters (but are still considered to be in alphabetical order), and the 8-letter Aegilops, which arguably is a proper noun.

I would like to suggest that we also cite the 9-letter surname Abdelnoor, a not uncommon surname of Lebanese origin. The most famous person of that name is perhaps Ben Abdelnoor, who as well as being a highly decorated English fell runner (e.g. having won perhaps the most prestigious Lake District fell race, Borrowdale, in 2011) also has a film credit on IMDB here.

Talbinho (talk) 21:37, 31 January 2022 (UTC)


 * No personal names; those can be constructed. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 22:10, 31 January 2022 (UTC)


 * As opposed to 'Aegilops', 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious', 'Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116' or 'Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk'? - --Talbinho (talk) 03:24, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

"Pneumoultramicroscopicsilicanovolcanoconiosis" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Pneumoultramicroscopicsilicanovolcanoconiosis and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 10 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Bonoahx (talk) 12:29, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Basic
Why is it so long 41.8.115.240 (talk) 18:53, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

No Repeating Letters
"Subdermatoglyphic" is longer than "dermatoglyphics" in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.121.126.15 (talk) 13:05, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 May 2022
Change "The longest words typable with only the left hand using conventional hand placement on a QWERTY keyboard are tesseradecades, aftercataracts..."

to "The longest words typable with only the left hand using conventional hand placement on a QWERTY keyboard are tesseradecades, aftercataracts, dereverberated, dereverberates..."

dereverberated  dereverberates 122.57.160.217 (talk) 05:29, 27 May 2022 (UTC)


 * this is WP:OR but so is that whole section… ;;  Maddy  ♥︎(they/she)♥︎ ::  talk   10:56, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ per above. Aaron Liu (talk) 08:41, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Since we have no source justifying our claim that these are the "longest" such words, we should probably reword the section to "Very long words typable with only the left hand ..." or something like that. Until some bored programmer does a tree search and confirms that none longer exist, of course. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 12:26, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Words spelt on the bottom row of a QWERTY keyboard
The article claims that no word can be spelt using only letters from the bottom row of a QWERTY keyboard, but the source (http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_records.html) listed says that:

"The only dictionary word which can be typed using only the bottom row of letters is [the onomatopoeia] ZZZ (to indicate sleeping). (There are no vowels in the bottom row.)". 174.69.244.54 (talk) 02:46, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
 * ZZZ is not considered a word by any major dictionary or other linguistic source. If that's counted, then so should "MMMM" (the sound of pleasure) and other sounds-from-letters. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 16:48, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Several dictionaries have zzz as an interjection or an exclamation. Of course, mmmm can't be a word. The word you're thinking of is mmm! Well OK, Wiktionary might be out on a limb with that one, I don't see it in any other dictionary except urban dictionary. Card Zero  (talk) 14:13, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 August 2022
what about the fear of long words at 35 letters long? 47.201.59.166 (talk) 02:33, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg 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. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 09:15, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 September 2022
Lenardjohn975 (talk) 11:19, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Lock this Lenardjohn975 (talk) 11:20, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

hippopotomonstrosesquip(p)edaliophobia
34/35 letters big word should be included 108.176.230.82 (talk) 21:05, 2 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Just another made-up world (badly made-up, since "hippo" as a root comes from the Greek meaning horse, not a large aquatic mammal) that has no serious use.- DavidWBrooks (talk) 23:01, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 November 2022
I am requesting to change the amount of characters in the word formerly known as "Titin" As to change it from 189,919 characters to 216,744 characters as there are in the word. SargentoCheese (talk) 18:33, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Cannolis (talk) 19:41, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 January 2023
change 	Arbitrary to 	Arbitrary/infinite Great scott21 (talk) 15:35, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Arbitrarily large is correct, is is not infinite. Not done. -- Mvqr (talk) 16:08, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Decompartmentalization
Meaning "breaking down of organizational barriers", is a 22-letter word that is very topical in today's management speak and is anything but contrived. It's hard to see what shorter synonym could replace it. It's in the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries, while its "non-undoing" form "compartmentalization" (20 letters) is in Meriam Webster. 139.47.32.4 (talk) 13:08, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is not "never used" as my colleagues and I DO use it. Never means no one anywhere but that is simply untrue. Seldom used is acceptable. Rarely used. etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:588:C504:FDA0:9DEF:D80D:E8D3:C44E (talk) 23:38, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

There is apparently a word longer than Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The word is “Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic”. It's a specialized term that describes the spa waters in Bath, England. 99.98.127.41 (talk) 01:15, 7 March 2023 (UTC)


 * A nonce word, never really used by anyone beyond its inventor. Just like the many long invented "thunder words" of James Joyce, which you also won't find in dictionaries. Equinox ◑ 18:30, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

If Wiktionary is a major dictionary...
...Then the longest word in a major dictionary would be bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk. CitationsFreak (talk) 18:26, 20 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Bless you! Equinox ◑ 18:11, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 November 2023
Raxmet user (talk) 03:14, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg 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)