Talk:Longest word in English
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electroencephalographically
According to Merriam-Webster, electroencephalographically is the longest word. (27 letters)
Strengthed and schmaltzed do not appear to be real words.
This article lists the words strengthed and schmaltzed as the longest 1 syllable words. But, I can't find any evidence that either of these words exist. They seem to be grammatically incorrect uses of the words strengthened and schmaltz.
I checked several dictionaries and found neither word. I found their root words, strength and schmaltz, but no verb form of either that could be used in the past tense by appending -ed to it. Making them grammatically incorrect.
For exampled, you don't say "lifting weights strengthed me" you say it strengthened me.
Neither of the claims has a citation. Which should be as simple as providing a dictionary entry. At least as a start, just to show that the words exist.
What do you guys think? VoidHalo (talk) 01:47, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
A word is missing from the list.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is not in the list, it would normally be right underpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis in terms of length. K O N T H I R T Y (talk) 19:52, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
- See the previous discussion of this word. Meters (talk) 19:55, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah hippopomonstrosesquippedaliophobia isn’t on it 2A02:C7C:59BB:C800:83C:139B:2E32:10A1 (talk) 14:55, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Longest place in Canada
When I visited the Wikipedia article for the place listed as the longest place name in Canada in this Longest Word in English article, I read that the location listed in this article has lost its title as the longest place name in Canada. I don't know the proper way to update this article, but I am calling attention to this because I think that remove or updating the inaccurate information would be helpful. TheFirstWizard29 (talk) 22:58, 11 May 2025 (UTC)