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  2. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    Strengths is the longest word in the English language containing only one vowel letter. [ 30 ] Euouae , a medieval musical term, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels.

  3. List of the longest English words with one syllable - Wikipedia

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    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. [1] Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed. [2] Other sources include words as long ...

  4. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - Wikipedia

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    Subsequently, the word was used in Frank Scully's puzzle book Bedside Manna, after which time, members of the N.P.L. campaigned to include the word in major dictionaries. [9] [10] This 45-letter word, referred to as "p45", [11] first appeared in the 1939 supplement to the Merriam-Webster New International Dictionary, Second Edition. [12]

  5. 20 Longest Words in English and Their Meanings (Plus ... - AOL

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    One is a whopping 45 letters long. Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed insanely complicated and long.

  6. What Is the Longest Word in English? Hint: It’s 189,819 ...

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    I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. It's antidisestablishmentarianism. Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed.

  7. Longest words - Wikipedia

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    The longest Hebrew word is the 19-letter-long (including vowels) ... Swedish grammar makes it possible to create arbitrarily long words. One such word is ...

  8. Vowel length - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration.In some languages vowel length is an important phonemic factor, meaning vowel length can change the meaning of the word, for example in Arabic, Czech, Dravidian languages (such as Tamil), some Finno-Ugric languages (such as Finnish and Estonian), Japanese, Kyrgyz, Samoan ...

  9. Talk : List of the longest English words with one syllable

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    A fact from List of the longest English words with one syllable appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 September 2004. The text of the entry was as follows: The text of the entry was as follows: