Some words are monstrous! We usually stick to shorter, easier-to-say words, but knowing a few big words is always a good way to impress. After all, who can't correctly say deoxyribonucleic acid (the meaning of DNA) without sounding more cultured?
In addition to the longest word in the world, here you will find out which is the longest word in Portuguese, who had the greatest name of all time and other extraordinarily long words!
The longest word in the world
Number of letters: 189.819!
Yes, this word has 189.819 letters! (The full name won't be recorded here because you'd get tired of looking for the end.) This absolutely unpalatable word is the chemical formula for a protein called titin, which is present in human DNA.
Since it's a chemical formula, some experts say it doesn't count as a real word. Definitely no one is going to use that word in a sentence. But if you're the type of person who likes to memorize things like the digits of Pi (3,14, XNUMX…), here's a new challenge!
The longest unscientific word in the world
Number of letters: 182
Essa palavrona é uma transliteração (ou seja, a transferência para o alfabeto latino) da palavra grega λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραβομελιτοκατακεχυμενοκιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτοκεφαλλιοκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγανοπτερύγων.
This word has its origins in literature. It appears in the play As Mulheres da Assembly, by the Greek playwright Aristophanes. The play was staged for the first time in the XNUMXth century BC. It is a fictional dish of food, a kind of fricassee with various ingredients mixed together, including fish and poultry.
The longest word in the Portuguese language
Number of letters: 46
What do you call a person who has contracted a lung disease from inhaling volcanic dust? Pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovulcanoconiotic. (Good thing it's not a very common disease!) This word was first recorded in the Houaiss dictionary in 2001 and is currently considered the longest word in the Portuguese language.
But, as medical terminology does not always count in word games, here is another monstrosity of the Portuguese language…
