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what is the biggest word in the world?

I mean like words that are very big and very confusing.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    pneumonoultramicroscopicsilica...

  • 1 decade ago

    The longest word to appear in standard English dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis. This is the name of a lung disease suffered by miners. It first appeared in Webster's New International Dictionary and then alter in the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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    - 1,913 (chem. in Mrs Byrne's Dict. See appendix 2)

    I know, crazy right...I can't pronounce these words...lol

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Taumatawhakatang ihangakoauauotamatea pokaiwhenuakitanatahu (i extra areas so the whole observe shows up) it is the M?ori call for a hill, 305 metres (a million,001 feet) intense, close to to Porangahau, south of Waipukurau in southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If integers can be counted as mathematical words, then I don't even have room to put a correct answer here. Look up the Busy Beaver Sequence.

  • 1 decade ago

    Smiles

    There is a mile between the two S's

  • 1 decade ago

    pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconoasis - some sort of a lung disease

  • 1 decade ago

    supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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