Basic English : Smallest & Longest Words in English
SMALLEST & LONGEST WORDS
Longest Words in English
Be an artist of words,That you may be strong for the tongue is a sword.
The word has more significance in communication (speaking, reading & writing). Even our Scriptures have mentioned it. i.e.
1. Word - Bible
2. Nadd, Jyoti & Sruti - Hindu Scriptures
3. Sraosha - Zoroastrian
4. Kalma - Quran
5. Naam & Shabd - Guru Granth Sahib
6. Agam - Kalpsutra
A word is formed as a unit of individual letter or a group of letters while spoken, read and/or written.
There are 26 letters/alphabets (5 vowels a,e,i,o & u +21 consonants).
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“A QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG”.
This sentence contains total 33 letters wherein we have used all 26 alphabets of English language.
Top most Longest words in English:
The smallest word could be “A” and the smallest sentence – ‘Go’ whereas longest word could be:
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“TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAOAUAUOTAMETEATURIPUKAKAPIKIMAUNGAHORONUKUPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU”
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(There are 84 letters in this one word and this is the name of a hill in New Zealand)
“PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS”
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(There are 45 letters in this one word and this is the name of a Liver Disease)
“HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA”
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(There are 36 letters in this one word and this is the name of Fear of Long Words)
“FLOCCIPAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION”
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(There are 29 letters in this one word and it means – the action of estimates as worthless.)
“Comanmoneymultiplymethodcm3”
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(There are 28 letters in this one word. This is the name of the software developed for police to compute Mr. Ashok Jadeja’s fraud.)
“ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC”
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(There are 22 letters and it’s a service (Navy) term which stands for ‘Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Feet Subordinate Command.’ (The longest acronym)
“TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA”
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(There are 17 letters in one word. It means fear of number 13)
“Philematology”
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(There are 13 letters in one word. It means Study of Kissing)
Related Topics :
English Alphabet letters
Articles : 'A', 'An' and 'The'
Parts of Sentence(s)
Parts of Speech in English
