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Schmaltzed and strengthed (10 letters) appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in The Oxford English Dictionary, while scraunched and scroonched appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in Webster's Third New International Dictionary; but squirrelled (11 letters) is the longest if pronounced as one syllable only (as ...
From technical to whimsical, prepare for your vocabulary to be stretched with 20 of the longest words in English. Plus, find out what they mean. Related: 55 Examples of Onomatopoeia
Longest words by language (5 P) Pages in category "Long words" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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A "chiefly dialect" word, meaning "crunched". scroonched / ˈ s k r ʊ n ʃ t / 10 W3NID; [9] Moser [1] A variant of scrunched, meaning "squeezed". scrootched / ˈ s k r uː tʃ t / 10 AHD [10] A variant of scrooched, meaning "crouched". squirreled / ˈ s k w ɜːr l d / 10 LPD; [4] MWOD; [5] Moser [1] The more usual American spelling of ...
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.
[8] 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]
from the Varadāmbikā Pariṇaya Campū by Tirumalāmbā, [67] composed of 195 Sanskrit letters (428 letters in the roman transliteration, dashes excluded), thus making it the longest word ever to appear in worldwide literature. [68] [69] Each hyphen separates every individual word this word is composed of. The approximate meaning of this word is: