Longest words - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_wordsThe longest word in any given language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration. Agglutinative languages allow for the creation of long words via compounding. Words consisting of hundreds, or even thousands of characters have been coined. Even non-agglutinative languages may allow word formation of theoretically limitless length in certain contexts. An example com…
Longest word | Guinness World Records
www.guinnessworldrecords.com › longest-wordLengthy concatenations and some compound, agglutinative and nonce words can be written in the closed-up style of a single word. The longest known example is a compound 'word' of 195 Sanskrit characters (transliterating to 428 letters in the Roman alphabet) describing the region near Kanci, Tamil Nadu, India, which appears in a 16th-century work by Tirumalãmbã, Queen of Vijayangara.
Longest word in English - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English The identity of the longest word in English depends upon the definition of what constitutes a word in the English language, as well as how length should be compared. Words may be derived naturally from the language's rootsor formed by coinage and construction. Additionally, comparisons are complicated because place names may be considered words, technical terms may be arbitrarily long, and the addition of suffixes and prefixes may extend the …