The French language has the 25-letter "anticonstitutionnellement," meaning "unconstitutionally." Italian's 26- letter "precipitevolissimevolmente" is an adverb meaning "as fast as possible." The longest words in French, Spanish, and Italian are all under 30 letters, with the 23-letter "electroencefalografista" in Spanish, which describes medical workers who operate an electoencephalogram.
However, most competitions do not accept scientific or medical words, making the longest English word the 28-letter "antidisestablishmentarianism," which refers to opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, particularly the Anglican Church. Meanwhile, the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," a medical term for a type of lung disease. The winning Turkish word was, "muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesinesiniz," which translates to "As though you are from those whom we may not easily be able to make into a maker of unsuccessful ones." The journalists then had to pronounce the words on camera, which proved to be a challenge in itself. Turkish, also an agglutinative language, has the winning, 75-letter word “Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesinesiniz”, which has the equally head-spinning definition: “You would be from those we can not easily/quickly make a maker of unsuccessful ones.The Turkish language came out on top in a "longest word" contest held by the Euronews channel in France, with a winning word composed of a whopping 75 letters.Įuronews, which broadcasts in 10 languages, asked its international journalists to enter the contest with the longest words they could find in each language. Hungarian is an agglutinative language, which means words of over 100 letters are possible, with enough creativity, but the aforementioned is largely recognised as the longest including by Dr Terts István from the “University of Pécs’“ Faculty of Letters and Arts, Hungarian Linguistics Department.
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In at a close second is the Hungarian word “Eltöredezettségmentesítőtleníttethetetlenségtelenítőtlenkedhetnétek”, which is such a mouthful our journalist needed three takes to crack it (and this, we are informed, is impressive!) This results in the likes of Schauspielerbetreuungsflugbuchungsstatisterieleitungsgastspielorganisationsspezialist (85 letters) and the incredible Neunmilliardeneinhundertzweiundneunzigmillionensechshunderteinunddreißigtausendsiebenhundertsiebzigfache (104 letters), however, these are not included in the Duden. In fact, the longest word in German is difficult to pin down as there is no limit on the length of compounds and the language allows for users to make their own compounds when a sought-after word doesn’t exist. However, the longest word known to have been used in practice is “Speciallægepraksisplanlægningsstabiliseringsperiode”: A period of time where the planning in a specialist doctor’s practice is stabilised.Īs you might expect, the compound nature of the German language gave us the impressive “Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung” – regulation on the delegation of authority concerning land conveyance permissions – weighing in at a hefty 67 characters and according to German-language Bible, the Duden, the language’s longest word. The Danish language permits nouns to be joined together meaning words can be arbitrarily long. It is a plural noun meaning sufferers of the disease pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which may be familiar from the English-language category. Tongue-tying “pneumoultramicroscopicossilicovulcanoconiótico” is the longest word in Portuguese. Portuguese and Danish have impressive 46-letter and 51-letter words respectively. The Spanish language’s “electroencefalografista” (23 letters) is “the medical worker that carries out electroencephalograms”, French’s “anticonstitutionnellement” (25 letters), refers to something “not in accordance with the political constitution or with procedural rules”, and Italian’s “precipitevolissimevolmente” (26 letters) is an adverb meaning “as fast as possible”. The longest words in the Latin languages French, Spanish and Italian all rank in below 30 letters.
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