![]() Arguably, nghiêng is a single morpheme, not a word, but Vietnamese is an “isolating language.” Instead of combining prefixes and suffixes to create new words, Vietnamese uses multiple small words that combine to change the meaning. That also means it’s the shortest longest word that exists. This clearly isn’t the longest word in the world, but this Vietnamese word at just seven letters long has the distinction of being the longest word in Vietnamese. What? That isn’t long AT ALL! Ah, but it is the SHORTEST LONGEST WORD in the world! Yes, the longest word in Vietnamese is only 7 letters long! nghiêng So the answer lies within “ What Is The Longest Word In The World?” And the funniest, longest word in the World is from Vietnam, and that word is nghiêng. And they agree!Īnd you can certainly fill your boots with an alphabetical list of the longest words in the English language at “ A-Z List of Long Words and Their Meanings That’ll Leave You Baffled” !īut what about … the rest of the world! There are so many languages in the world, surely, there must be longer words! And… THERE ARE! And they too have an article on the longest word in the world. For example, naming a single strand of DNA, with its millions and millions of repeating base pairs, could eventually tab out at well over 1 billion letters.Īnd the other 11 long words can be found at ” What’s the Longest Word in the World? Here are 12 of Them, By Category” for your Spelling Bee practice!Īnd growing up, The Reader’s Digest was always a source of humour, articles and. The problem with including chemical names is that there’s essentially no limit to how long they can be. All told, the full chemical name for the human protein titinis 189,819 letters, and takes about three-and-a-half hours to pronounce. ![]() This is mind boggling to me that a single strand of DNA could have so many letters! METHIONYLTHREONYLTHREONYGLUTA. ![]() And it could be surpassed due to the chemical components required to ‘name’ strands of DNA. Antidisestablishmentarianism ! Who hasn’t heard of this word before! But, it only holds the record because it is considered a “ non-medical, non-coined, nontechnical word” and it does have an interesting history! Guilty pleasure – I enjoy saying this word to students when the topic of fun, strange, different and long words comes up! LOL! And don’t forget about the The ABC Song from Sesame Street, although whether the alphabet ITSELF qualifies as a word … is a debatable point! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a word that once you hear it, or at least, the singing of it from Mary Poppins, just rolls off your tongue quite easily!
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