What is the longest commonly used word?

What is the longest commonly used word?

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisMajor dictionaries The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.

What word takes 3 hours to say?

A man has been recorded spending more than three hours to pronounce what is supposedly the longest word in the English language. 'Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl isoleucine' is the chemical name of 'titin' (also known as 'connectin') – the largest known protein.

What are long words called?

sesquipedalian. Use the adjective sesquipedalian to describe a word that's very long and multisyllabic. For example the word sesquipedalian is in fact sesquipedalian. Each of those long words is referred to as a sesquipedalia.