What is the longest word in the dictionary?

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asked May 3, 2020 in Words & Wordplay by windscats000 (2,310 points)
What is the longest word in the dictionary?

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answered May 4, 2020 by earog (580 points)
The longest word that is in the dictionary and is very hard to say and pronounce is the word (pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis)

The word (pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis) is a type of lung disease that is contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.

That is a very hard word to say or pronounce or even remember how to spell.

There are several hard to pronounce medical words referring to diseases and conditions but so far that word of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is currently the longest English word in the English Dictionary.

There may be longer words in other dictionaries but that one is the longest word in the English word dictionary.

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