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Longest word in English

The identity of the longest word in English depends upon the definition of what constitutes a word in the English language, as well as how length should be compared. In addition to words derived naturally from the language's roots (without any known intentional invention), English allows new words to be formed by coinage and construction; place names may be considered words; technical terms may be arbitrarily long. Length may be understood in terms of orthography and number of written letters, or (less commonly) phonology and the number of phonemes.

Word	Letters	Characteristics	Dispute

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl...isoleucine	189,819	Chemical name of titin, the largest known protein	Technical; not in dictionary; disputed whether it is a word Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamyl...serine	1,909	Longest published word[1]	Technical Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsano...pterygon	183	Longest word coined by a major author,[2] the longest word ever to appear in literature.[3]	Coined; not in dictionary; Ancient Greek transliteration Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis	45	Longest word in a major dictionary[4]	Technical; coined to be the longest word Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious	34	Famous for being created for the Mary Poppins film and musical	Coined Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism	30	Longest non-coined word in a major dictionary[5]	Technical Floccinaucinihilipilification	29	Longest unchallenged nontechnical word	Coined Antidisestablishmentarianism	28	Longest non-coined and nontechnical word[citation needed] Honorificabilitudinitatibus	27	Longest word in Shakespeare's works; longest word in the English language featuring alternating consonants and vowels.[6]	Latin