what is the longest word spelled forward and back
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"What is the longest ""symmetrical"" word (it's spelled backward the same as forward)?" The longest palindromic word in the Oxford English Dictionary is tattarrattat, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses for a knock on the door. The Guinness Book of Records gives detartrated, the past tense of detartrate, a somewhat contrived chemical term meaning to remove tartrates.
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Germany drops its longest word: Rindfleischeti... The longest word in the Oxford Dictionary of English is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - at 45 letters. Its definition is an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease casued by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust.
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What is the longest word in the world? The 28-letter antidisestablishmentarianism is often referred to as the longest, and it is the longest noncoined, nontechnical word in English. Other long words include the name for the tobacco mosaic virus (1185 letters) or the enzyme trypthophan synthetase (1909 or 1913 letters). The actual longest word in the world is 189,819 letters long. It is the chemical name for the largest known protein, called 'titin'. * For a link to this word, see the related question or link.
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Do you know any words that spell another word when read backwards? Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: A word-pair like this may be called by several different names -- some of the most common are reverse palindrome, semiordnilap [a term coined by Lewis Caroll, by reversing the word palindrome!], and anadrome.
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- Also known as mirror words, Janus words, reverse words and emordnilap words (palindrome spelt backwards), Back Words are words that when read backwards spell another, entirely different word. Surprisingly, there are more words with this property than you might think.
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myName2243 & CDB Present... What is the longest word starting with k? What is a 4 letter word that starts with q and ends with f? There is no word in the English language that begins with q, ends with f, and is four letters long. There are several that are five letters long: Quaff, quiff, but none that a…re four letters.
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What is the longest English word? The longest words in Oxford Dictionaries are: 1  antidisestablishmentarianism - opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England - 28 letters. 2  floccinaucinihilipilification - the estimation of something as worthless - 29 letters. 3  pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - a supposed lung disease - 45 letters.
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What is the longest word in the English language without vowels? Overnumerousnesses, 18 letters long, is the longest word that consists of only letters that lack ascenders, descenders and dots in lower case. Lighttight and hillypilly, each 10 letters long, are the longest words consisting only of letters with ascenders, descenders and dots in lower case.
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English Word with Three Consecutive Double Letters Should these be considered, bookkeepings is the longest English word with three consecutive double letters and the bookkeep is the shortest. razard says November 2, 2016 @ 10:06
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Longest word that can be spelled backward and forward? What are words that are spelled the same forwards and backwards called? Palindromes. Palindromes can be words such as radar, noon, kayak, level, peep; names such as Hannah or Otto, or even entire sentences: Madam, I'm Adam.
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- Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine, at 70 letters, has been cited as the longest Turkish word, though it is a compound word and Turkish, as an agglutinative language, carries the potential for words of arbitrary length.
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The Longest English Words to Ever Appear in Literature Shakespeare himself used a nonce-word, honorificabilitudinitatibus, in his early play Love's Labor's Lost. At 27 letters, this is pretty long (and only one shorter than 'antidisestablishmentarianism,' often cited as the longest English word). It refers to the state or position of being able to achieve honors.
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What are words that are spelled the same forward and backwards called? Palindromes. The word comes from the Greek words palin (meaning again) and dromos (meaning direction.) Examples include: Hannah, race car, and civic. Words that are spelled the same when read forwards or backwards are called palindromes. See the 'related links' below for a great selection of palindromes That is called a palindrome, like: mom, wow, Hannah,racecar,mad'am I'm Adam, pop, palindrome A palindrome.
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Palindrome Palindromes redirects here. For the film, see Palindromes (film). A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward, such as madam or kayak.
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Thread: Words spelled backwards Thread: Words spelled backwards. Words spelled backwards Ok, I know that a word which is spelled the same backward as it is forward is a palindrone; such as MOM. However, I'm curious, when someone spells a word backwards, intentionally, does it have a specific term that it is called?
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What do you call words that are spelled the same backwards and forwards? A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward. Allowances may be made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers.
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What are words that are spelled the same forward and backwards called? The word comes from the Greek words palin (meaning again) and dromos (meaning direction.) Examples include: Hannah, race car, and civic. Words that are spelled the same when read forwards or backwards are called palindromes. See the 'related links' below for a great selection of palindromes.
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Palindrome Semordnilap (palindromes spelled backward) is a name coined for words that spell a different word in reverse. The word was coined by Martin Gardner in his notes to C.C. Bombaugh's book Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature. An example of this is the word repaid, which is diaper spelled backward.
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re: Longest Word Ever In The Dictionary page 5 Longest disease is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, defined by the OED as a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word.
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What's the Longest Word in the World? Here are 12 of Them, By Category 10. A type of soil tiller, the longest non-coined palindromic word included in an English dictionary tallies nine letters. Detartrated, 11 letters, appears in some chemical glossaries, but is generally considered too arcane to qualify.
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World's Longest Word Has 189,819 Letters, Takes 3.5 Hours To Pronounce (Now With Video Pronunciation!) Note: You can download a 65KB text file of the entire 189,819 letter word HERE. This is a video of some guy pronouncing the longest word in the world, which is the chemical name for titan (aka connectin), a human protein, and the largest known protein. It takes brobro 3-hours and 33 minutes to pronounce the whole thing, and it looks like he nods off several times in the process. Plus that potted plant on his desk dies.
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The Longest Word in English Takes 3.5 Hours to Pronounce The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and would take you three and a half hours to pronounce correctly. Seriously. It's the chemical name of Titin (or connectin), a giant protein that functions as a molecular spring which is responsible for the passive elasticity of muscle.. You can listen to a guy pronounce the whole damn word. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious this is not.
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What are some words that are spelled the same way backwards? The words or numbers or a seqence of words that spell the same when spelled backward and forward are called palindromes.some common examples are radar,madam,civic,kayak etc. For more information about palindromes, check out the below sitehttp://examples.yourdictionary.com/palindrome-examples.html.
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- A palindrome: The word palindrome is from the Greek palindromos, palíndromos meaning running back (again = PALIN + palín-, again = DROM). Dramein drameîn run a palindrome is a word or phrase which reads the same. In both directions some: simple examples are
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Worldâs Longest Word Takes 213 Minutes To Say (VIDEO) World's Longest Word Takes 213 Minutes To Say (VIDEO) Dmitry Golubovskiy has a lot of time on his hands. Well, at least 213 minutes to spare. That was long enough for him to record a video of him reciting the longest word in the English language. The word -- which is actually the name of a giant protein called Titin -- begins with Methio, ends with leucine, and has a total of 189,819 letters, Geekologie.com reported.
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What is the hardest word to spell in the english language? The longest word ever to appear in a non-technical dictionary of English is.. pneumonoultramicroscopic-. silicovolcanoconiosis. it's a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica or quartz dust ;-) The real longest official word if you include (chemical names) is 1,913 letters.