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Facts:
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The longest word in English contains 3,609,750 letters and means the current day or date between real and imaginable today. It was coined by writer Nigel Tomm in his book The Blah Story, Volume 19. The word occupies 812 pages (read more).

Here's an excerpt of the word:

somewhenotodayoundressomecologicalinenumerousexyeslowillingnesshotstr-angereactioneglectabulationumberightonightomorrowidoweremembersufficien-togethernessobviousoomphilariousayourselforeasonablexplorerideseriouservan-twinklechoingoosevenowomeneedoorbellikelectricalamplantingoverockslightly-ellowelluminousportuitionevereoccupiesilentouringadderoastsalmonearlyowlec-habitationationalizespecialegornamentitartanomineejectwolivesubjectwentiet-hypertextransformereappearstaticrazyoungsterunearbyachtoo...eddingown
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The second longest word in English contains 2,087,214 letters and means 'a girl' or 'a bi*ch.' It was coined by writer Nigel Tomm in his book The Blah Story, Volume 10. The word occupies 728 pages (read more).

Here's an excerpt of the word:

babyoubiquitouseadogablahomeffectonightobyeassymmetricityowlablaheat-enderopechoeslightlyuppiepitheturnsweetoastiedgedificexcretadamanterribl-educatedrumustablahisisterealityearnobodyesirapacityounderstandoorbellick-sensuousecretownevereadsimplelationatchomiciderectionaboblahisupered-iagramustoleratevenominalovenergyahoopsorryoudderunoxiouslut...oiletub
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The third place belongs to the largest known protein (189,819 letters)

methionylthreonylthreonyl...isoleucine.
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The fourth is a fictional dish mentioned in Aristophanes' comedy Assemblywomen (183 letters)

Lopadotemakhoselakhogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelito-katakekhymenokikhlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptokephalliokigklopeleiola-gōiosiraiobaphētraganopterýgōn

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The fifth is Bababadal­gharagh­takammin­arronn­konn­bronn­tonn­erronn­tuonn­thunn­trovarrhoun­awnskawn­toohoo­hoordenen­thurnuk (101 letters) the word was coined by J. Joyce in Finnegans Wake, it allegedly represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and Eve. In the novel J. Joyce coined ten 101-letter words (ten thunders):

2. (thunder): Perkodhuskurunbarggruauyagokgorlayorgromgremmitghund-hurthrumathunaradidillifaititillibumullunukkunun
3. (clap): klikkaklakkaklaskaklopatzklatschabattacreppycrottygraddaghsem-mihsammihnouithappluddyappladdypkonpkot
4. (whore): Bladyughfoulmoecklenburgwhurawhorascortastrumpapornane-nnykocksapastippatappatupperstrippuckputtanach
 5.: Thingcrooklyexineverypasturesixdixlikencehimaroundhersthemaggerby-kinkinkankanwithdownmindlookingated
6. (shut the door): Lukkedoerendunandurraskewdylooshoofermoyporter-tooryzooysphalnabortansporthaokansakroidverjkapakkapuk
7.: Bothallchoractorschumminaroundgansumuminarumdrumstrumtruminahu-mptadumpwaultopoofoolooderamaunsturnup
8.: Pappappapparrassannuaragheallachnatullaghmonganmacmacmacwhackfa-lltherdebblenonthedubblandaddydoodled
9. (cough): husstenhasstencaffincoffintussemtossemdamandamnacosaghc-usaghhobixhatouxpeswchbechoscashlcarcarcaract
10. (Norse gods): Ullhodturdenweirmudgaardgringnirurdrmolnirfenrirlukkilo-kkibaugimandodrrerinsurtkrinmgernrackinarockar
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The sixth is Lip­smackin­thirst­quenchin­acetastin­motivatin­good­buzzin­cool­talkin­high­walkin­fast­livin­ever­givin­cool­fizzin (100 letters) the word was used by Pepsi's advertising agency Boase Massimi Pollitt in TV and film advertising (1973).
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The seventh is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
(85 letters), it is a place name in New Zealand.
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The eight is Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesame-seedbun (71 letters), it was used in a McDonald's Restaurant advertisement to describe the Big Mac sandwich.
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The nineth is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) it is a lung disease, this is also longest word in a major dictionary.
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The tenth is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters), this is the title of a song from the movie Mary Poppins, the word does appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper noun defined in reference to the song title. The attributed meaning is "a word that you say when you don't know what to say." The idea and invention of the word is credited to songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman.
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The tenth is pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters), this is longest non-coined word in a major dictionary it means an inherited disorder that is caused by a mutation in the Gs alpha subunit gene imprinted on the paternal chromosome.
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The eleventh is floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters), this is longest nontechnical word it means the act of describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation.
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The twelfth is antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters), this is longest non-coined and nontechnical word, it means a political position that originated in nineteenth-century Britain, where antidisestablishmentarians were opposed to proposals to remove the Church of England's status as the state church of England forwarded principally by both Payne and Tuffin.
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The fourteenth thirteenth is honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters), this is longest word in Shakespeare's works, it is used by Costard in act five, scene one of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost.
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