Longest_Shortest_Words (2024)

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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.

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.

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… isoleucine is the chemical name for the protein of “titin” also known as “connectin.” The largest known protein that consists of 26, 926 amino acids is made up of 189, 819 letters and can take about three hours to pronounce.

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 word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious appears, for example, in the Oxford English dictionary. So their editors believe it's sufficiently well used to qualify as a real word. It notes that the word dates from the 1940s, but was popularised in the 1964 film “Mary Poppins.”

This means reading 300 words will take you between 1.5 and 2.4 minutes.

How many words is a 3 minute speech? A speaker with an average speaking speed will need 420 words for a 3 minute speech. A fast speaker will need 510 words while a slow speaker will only need 330 words.

What is the hardest word to say? ›

The world's shortest verified man is Chandra Bahadur Dangi, while for women Pauline Musters holds the record. At 54.6 cm (21.5 in), Nepalese-born Chandra Bahadur Dangi was, at the time of his death in 2015, the world's shortest person ever verified.

Answer: The shortest, oldest, and most commonly used word is “I.” Medieval manuscripts reveal that some of the oldest words in English are “I,” “we,” “two,” and “three.” This makes “I” one of the shortest and oldest words in the English language.

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.

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 1,000 characters!

In Russian, according to Wikipedia, the longest Russian word is Тысячевосьмисотвосьмидесятидевятимикрометровый (46 words). The word means 1989-micrometer. However, according to some of my Russian friends, the longest Russian word is достопримечательности (21 words), the word means attractions.

A word of warning… the “word” takes about 3.5 hours to say. The word is 189,819 letters long. It's actually the name of a giant protein called Titin.

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… The chemical name for the protein titin, which spans over 189 thousand letters, is often argued to be the longest word in the world. Its absurd length is due to the fact that proteins are named by combining the names of all of the individual amino acids used to form them.

So what's the word? Wikipedia's says that it's "Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl ... isoleucine" (ellipses necessary), which is the "chemical name of titin, the largest known protein." Also, there's some dispute about whether this is really a word.

'Longest' word has 189,819 letters, takes three hours to pronounce. 'Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl... isoleucine' is the chemical name of 'titin'. That one word would span about fifty-seven pages.