Longest and Smallest Words in English

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SMALLEST & LONGEST WORDS

Longest Words in English

Smallest and Longest Words of English language

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).

“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:

Examples:

“TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAOAUAUOTAMETEATURIPUKAKAPIKIMAUNGAHORONUKUPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU”

(There are 84 letters in this one word and this is the name of a hill in New Zealand)

“PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS”

(There are 45 letters in this one word and this is the name of a Liver Disease)

“HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA”

(There are 36 letters in this one word and this is the name of Fear of Long Words)

“FLOCCIPAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION”

(There are 29 letters in this one word and it means – the action of estimates as worthless.)

“Comanmoneymultiplymethodcm3”

(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”

(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”