Although some languages have longer words, English does have a number of words which use a lot of letters.The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is a 45-letter word for a lung disease: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The longest one-syllable English words are nine letters long: scratched, stretched, scrounged, scrunched and strengths.
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What about in Portuguese?
Pneumoultramicroscopicossilicovulcanoconiótico is the longest one. It is 46-letters and it means a person who is affected by that same disease up above. You can find this word in Portuguese Language Dictionary Houaiss, p. 2242, from 2001.
Are you able to imagine when the doctor tell a person:
“You have a rare illness. You were affected by Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.”
“Hammmmmm"
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