The word Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is officially the longest word in English language. It means “a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, mostly found in volcanos”.
So let’s break it down to understand it better:
It is cool to know about the longest word in english. But can you pronounce this 45-letter word in a single breath? 🙂
17 Responses
Nitin
September 1st, 2006 at 19:15
1Shobhit…..
Great stuff here, enjoyed reading everything, especially pigeonrank thing.
Keep it up!
lisa lollaine soram
September 14th, 2006 at 13:13
2this was amazing.i cannot pronounce it without having a breath.
geraldine laurel
May 7th, 2007 at 12:33
3i don’t believe that can find this kind of long word.
tigeriris
May 23rd, 2007 at 02:33
4that is a sweet word, fun ot say and easy to spell!
tash
July 3rd, 2007 at 21:06
5I can in 1 breath
Roshan
November 4th, 2007 at 19:04
6Please Send Me the Longest Word in Sinhala Language to E-mail address that I havea above Mentioned
Sada Hashmi
March 14th, 2008 at 13:45
7Yes! I can prononce this 45-letter word in a single breath… Its really fun… WOW
nunya
May 20th, 2008 at 08:39
8That is not the longest word ever recorded though. This word is 207,000 letters long and has only been printed once. It is another word forhuman mitochondrial DNA.
Shobhit
May 31st, 2008 at 01:00
9@nunya: Any DNA structure is not an ‘English’ language world. That is why it is not included in my blog post. 🙂
danny
January 18th, 2009 at 11:45
10that is untrue.
the longest word in the english language is 1909 characters long and is referring to a specific part of DNA.
jennie lin
January 23rd, 2009 at 06:43
11This is hard! I can’t even pronounce this word……think about having to say it all in one breathe! Awesome!
– Jennie Lin
feny
March 1st, 2009 at 12:19
12That is the only longest word I ever heard.I don’t believe that it has a word like this.
WOW!!!! It is so NICE.
ravi
August 18th, 2009 at 14:08
13Shobhit great job done by u.
ur way of simplification which help us to pronounce it is also so nice.
kema
December 3rd, 2009 at 01:39
14that was my spelling word for 4th grade I got a cirtificate and everything for it. I can still spell it to this day and im in college now
emily
February 24th, 2011 at 05:46
15I could easily. If you put it down in those parts it makes it waay easier. Now I get to show off to my friends! Well, if I remember it. I’m going to try to pronounce a waaaay longer word with 1, 185 letters, but for now I’ll stick to this word to get used to long words. Thanks a lot!
§arah
March 14th, 2011 at 03:44
16Good stuff. Just learnt the longest word in english. Wow like it 🙂
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