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This has been mentioned by multiple media organizations:

Megan Gibson (2011-01-14). "Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary: 10 Unforgettable Entries". TIME. Retrieved 2010-01-15. Though it's a contested choice, the longest word in the English language is 189,819 letters long...
Alexis Kleinman, Maxwell Strachan (14 January 2015). "The 49 Most Entertaining Wikipedia Entries Ever Created". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 8 March 2015.

electroencephalographically

According to Merriam-Webster, electroencephalographically is the longest word. (27 letters)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/no-antidisestablishmentarianism-is-not-in-the-dictionary/

Strengthed and schmaltzed do not appear to be real words.

This article lists the words strengthed and schmaltzed as the longest 1 syllable words. But, I can't find any evidence that either of these words exist. They seem to be grammatically incorrect uses of the words strengthened and schmaltz.

I checked several dictionaries and found neither word. I found their root words, strength and schmaltz, but no verb form of either that could be used in the past tense by appending -ed to it. Making them grammatically incorrect.

For exampled, you don't say "lifting weights strengthed me" you say it strengthened me.

Neither of the claims has a citation. Which should be as simple as providing a dictionary entry. At least as a start, just to show that the words exist.

What do you guys think? VoidHalo (talk) 01:47, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A word is missing from the list.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is not in the list, it would normally be right underpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis in terms of length. K O N T H I R T Y (talk) 19:52, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See the previous discussion of this word. Meters (talk) 19:55, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah hippopomonstrosesquippedaliophobia isn’t on it 2A02:C7C:59BB:C800:83C:139B:2E32:10A1 (talk) 14:55, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Longest place in Canada

When I visited the Wikipedia article for the place listed as the longest place name in Canada in this Longest Word in English article, I read that the location listed in this article has lost its title as the longest place name in Canada. I don't know the proper way to update this article, but I am calling attention to this because I think that remove or updating the inaccurate information would be helpful. TheFirstWizard29 (talk) 22:58, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]