The shortest word is a. Some might wonder about the word I since it consists of one letter, too. In sound, a is shorter because it is a monophthong (consists of one vowel), while I is a diphthong. Both do consist of one letter in the English writing system, and in most fonts I is the narrowest letter.
The longest English word
The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and takes 3 hours to pronounce. This is a technical term for the chemical composition of titin. Titin is the largest known protein responsible for maintaining the passive elasticity of the muscles.
1. methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl…isoleucine. You'll notice there's an ellipsis here, and that's because this word, in total, is 189,819 letters long, and it's the chemical name for the largest known protein, titin.
1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (forty-five letters) A lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica or quartz dust.
Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic. This is the longest word in English which is composed of seven words. This 52-letter word was coined by Dr. Edward Strother to describe the spa waters in Bath, England.
As we saw at the start of our hunt, the longest word according to a lot of sources is the technical name for the protein titin. It is the same across all languages and has nearly 200,000 letters. Here's a snippet of the first 4,000 characters! Definitely not a word for the faint of heart!
James Joyce made up nine 100-letter words plus one 101-letter word in his novel Finnegans Wake, the most famous of which is Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk.
Typical documents that are 1,000,000 words or more include full-length novels. It will take approximately 3,333 minutes to read 1,000,000 words. A 1,000,000 word count will create about 2000 pages with single spacing or 4000 pages double-spaced when using normal 1-inch margins, 12 pt.
How long does it take to speak 1,000 words? Assuming an average speaking speed of 125 to 150 words per minute, it would take approximately 6:30 to 8 minutes to speak 1,000 words.
1000 words can seem like a lot, but it's only 2–4 pages on average. People use Microsoft Word or Google Docs for all sorts of academic and business projects. The word counter in Microsoft Word shows how many words per page there are.
At over 180,000 letters long, the chemical name of the protein titin is often said to technically be the longest English word.
2. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters) Ironically, Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest work in the dictionary and is the name for a fear of long words!
The longest word in English, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - a chronic lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silicate or quartz dust. Pneumono refers to the lung.
Is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious a real word? Yes, it is. It first appeared in the English Oxford Dictionary as early as 1931.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is famous for being one of the world's longest words,although factitious. The word means "a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silica dust usually found in volcanos".
10,000 words is 66.67 minutes of speaking time.
The average reader will read 1,400 words in 4.7 minutes when reading at a speed of 300 words per minute (wpm). Documents that typically contain 1,400 words are high school and college essays, short blog posts, and news articles.
If you're writing your first novel, the general rule of thumb for novel writing is a word count in the 80,000 to 100,000 range. While anything over 40,000 words can fall into the novel category, 50,000 is considered the minimum novel length. Anything over 110,000 words is considered too long for a fiction novel.
20,000 words is 40 pages single-spaced or 80 pages double-spaced. Typical documents that are 20,000 words include include novels, novellas, and other published books. It will take approximately 67 minutes to read 20,000 words.
200,000 words is 400 pages single-spaced or 800 pages double-spaced. Typical documents that are 200,000 words or more include full-length novels. It will take approximately 667 minutes to read 200,000 words.
Most likely one of the longest Russian words is a chemical term, тетрагидропиранилциклопентилтетрагидропиридопиридиновая (tetragidropiranilciklopentiltetragidropiridopiridinovaya), which contains 55 letters.
At 34 letters long, “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” is not even the longest word in the Dictionary. That honor is bestowed upon a 45-letter medical term that we will not even dare try to pronounce (you can take a crack at it, though): “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”.