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Tool/Solver to search for the longest word made out of some letters. Longest word is a game letter whose purpose is to find the longest word possible using some given letters, a concept close to anagramming.
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What is the longest word game? (Definition)
The longest word is a part of the Countdown TV program, whose purpose is to find the longest word by using only some selected letters (e.g. to rearrange letters in order to make a word from letters).
There are many letter games whose purpose is to make a word from letters (Scrabble, Wordox, Words with Friends, etc.). Most are similar to the longest word game, for example if the goal is to use all letters, it is an anagram.
In the original rules, a word list (dictionary reference) tells which word is an accepted solution or not (no proper noun). The program here is not limited and allows all kind of words, including conjugated verbs and sometimes some proper nouns.
What are the variants of the longest word game?
In its original version, the player has to try to make an anagram of the letters, or remove some of them to get the longest/biggest word possible.
Example: ABCDEFGHIJ gives JIGHEAD (7 letters)
There are variants where letters can be used multiple times (repeating letters).
Example: ABCDEFGHIJ giving CHIFFCHAFF (10 letters)
It is also possible to search a word without scrambling the letters
Example: ABCDEFGHIJ allows A_C____HI_ (ACHI) (4 letters)
Finally, it is possible to mix the two options
Example: ABCDEFGHIJ gives BEEF (4 letters)
See also dCode solvers: Scrabble, Boggle, Words containing… etc.
When was the TV Show ‘Countdown’ invented?
In 1965, in a French TV Show by Armand Jammot, completed in 1972 by countdown numbers rounds.
How to perform a random letters selection for the longest word game?
What is the longest word in english?
The longest word varies according to the dictionary used:
— pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, but technical
— hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, a word that has been created to describe the fear of long words.
— antidisestablishmentarianism, found in all major dictionaries
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Ready to take your Scrabble skills to the next level? This list of the longest words in the English language could score you major points on your next game — if you can remember how to spell them.
Some of the words that qualify for the title take hours to pronounce, like the 189,819-letter word for the protein Titin. Additionally, many of the longest words are medical terms, so we have excluded some of them to allow for more variety. The end result is a list of fascinatingly lengthy words that will make your vocabulary downright sesquipedalian.
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England
Origins: While the word originated in 19th century Britain, it is now used to refer to any opposition to a government withdrawing support from a religious organization. Though rarely used in casual conversation, the word was featured in the Duke Ellington song, “You’re Just an Old Antidisestablishmentarianist.”
Floccinaucinihilipilification
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: the act of defining or estimating something as worthless
Origins: This word stems from the combination of four Latin words, all of which signify that something has little value: flocci, nauci, nihili, pilifi. This style of word creation was popular in Britain in the 1700s.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an invented word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling a fine dust
Origins: This word emerged in the late 1930s, and was said to be invented by Everett K. Smith, president of the National Puzzlers’ League, in an imitation of very long medical terms. It is not found in real medical usage.
Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an inherited disorder similar to pseudohypoparathyroidism
Origins: This genetic disorder causes “short stature, round face and short hand bones,” according to the National Institutes of Health. Despite having a similar name, it is not the same as pseudohypoparathyroidism.
Psychoneuroendocrinological
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: of or related to to the branch of science concerned with the relationships between psychology, the nervous system, and the endocrine system
Origins: This term was first seen in the 1970s in Journal of Neurological Science, a medical journal.
Sesquipedalian
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having many syllables or characterized by the use of long words
Origins: The Roman poet Horace used this term to caution young poets against relying on words that used a large number of letters. It was adopted in the 17th century by poets to ridicule their peers who used lengthy words.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fear of long words
Fun Fact: This word is most often used in humorous contexts. It is an extension of the word sesquipedalophobia, which has the same meaning and is more often used in a formal context.
Incomprehensibilities
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: things that are impossible to understand or comprehend
Fun Fact: In the 1990s, this word was named the longest word in common usage.
Uncopyrightable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not able or allowed to be protected by copyright
Fun Fact: This word is one of the longest isograms (a word that does not repeat letters) in the English language.
Dermatoglyphics
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: the scientific study of hands, including fingerprints, lines, mounts, and shapes
Fun Fact: Unlike palmistry, this study is based in science and is often used in criminology as a way to identify both perpetrators and victims.
Euouae
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: a type of cadence in medieval music
Fun Fact: While this word might not look as impressive as others on this list, it’s the longest word in the English language to be composed entirely of vowels. (It’s also the word with the longest string of vowels.)
Psychophysicotherapeutics
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: a therapeutic approach that integrates both the mind and body
Fun Fact: While the Oxford Dictionary does not provide an official definition of this word, it is included on their list of the longest words in the English language.
Otorhinolaryngological
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: of or relating to the medical specialization involving the ear, nose, and throat
Fun Fact: This medical specialization is more commonly known by its acronym, ENT.
This likely can be solved by some variation of optmization problem of Eulerian Path problem.
Reduce the problem to a graph:
G = (V, E) where:
V = { all words }
E = {(word1, word2) | If there is a phrase word1, word2 }
In your example:
V = {A, B, C, D }
E = {(A,B), (B,C) (B,D), (C, B), (C, D) }
Now, Unfortunately, this instance of the problem is not an Eulerian Path, but if an Eulerian path existed — finding it would have got you the optimal solution. Example, if you add the phrase 'D C', the graph becomes eulerian, and indeed you can find the euler path:
A -> B -> C -> B -> D -> C -> D, which stands for 'A B', 'B C', 'C B', 'B D', 'D C', C D'
The good news about Eulerian path — this problem can be solved efficiently and is Not NP Complete (unless P=NP).
Note: This solution is working out of the box to find if there is a sequence containing ALL phrases (and lets you find it easily). I am not familiar, and haven’t studies the issue, if the optimization problem is substantially harder though.
Words from Letters FAQ
What Words Can I Make With These Letters?
That is the, «To be, or not to be,» question of all word games. There are usually many words you can make. Sometimes, there won’t be many at all. Just remember, sometimes it pays to make a word with fewer than the maximum number of points possible because it sets you up better for your next turn.
What Is the Longest English Word?
In the Oxford English Dictionary, the longest word is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means «the act of deeming or estimating something as worthless. Other dictionaries contain the word PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS, which is coal miners’ «black lung disease.»
If you think that’s bad, German is worse. The longest word in German is DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFFAHRTSELEKTRIZITÄTENHAUPTBETRIEBSWERKBAUUNTERBEAMTENGESELLSCHAFT. FLOCCI…, at 29 letters, and PNEUMONO …, at 45 letters, combined aren’t that long! None of these words will fit on a crossword game board. Scrabble boards are 15 letters across, so the longest word, which also doubles as the word worth the most points, possible is OXYBENPHUTAZONE. It requires eight letters already be placed, none of them on any of the three triples or the double-letter squares, and it scores 1,778 points. No one has ever achieved it.
How Do You Find Words With Letters Missing?
The best way is to use our tool. Of course, you should never use it while playing competitive games because it would count as looking up words in the Official Scrabble Player’s Dictionary prior to playing. But, if you wanted to ask yourself, «Which words from letters in my rack can I make?» during a friendly Words With Friends game, then that would not be bad form. Outside of competition, study as many words as you want using the website. It’s an invaluable training tool!
The Longest Words in English
Most English words longer than about 15-20 letters are scientific, meaningless, or highly specialized, and they tend to be formed by affixation. This is the act or process of adding affixes to a base word to produce a derivative word—in the word affixation, for instance, -ation is an affix. Here are some of the longest words.
The longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis with 45 letters. Our definition is «a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust.» The entry for this word can be found in our Medical Dictionary.
Yes, that number is correct. The longest string of letters used to describe something isn’t technically a word—it’s the chemical name for a protein, begins with methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminyl…, and continues for quite a while after that. The name has 189,819 letters, fills more than 50 pages, and takes more than three hours to say. If you’ve got three hours to blow, you can listen to it said here.
28, 29, and 34 Letters
There are some long words that are rarely or never used in a sentence, but instead are simply used as examples of long words, and for that reason we don’t include them in our dictionaries. The most famous of these are antidisestablishmentarianism, which has 28 letters and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, which has 34 letters. Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) («the act or habit of assessing something as worthless») is another of this ilk. Our claim is not that these aren’t words, but that they aren’t words that meet our criteria for entry. We explain why here.
The longest place name in the United States is possibly a lake in Massachusetts called Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (49 letters, or 53, if you count the Lake portion). It is also sometimes called Webster Lake. While the longer name is based on earlier names for the lake from the language of the Nipmuc people who inhabited the area, this version of the name—along with its reputed translation, «You fish on your side; I fish on my side; nobody fishes in the middle”—appears to have been the invention of a local newspaper editor.
Photo: Hill near Hawkes Bay, NZ
The longest place name in the English-speaking world is thought to be a 1,001-foot-high hill in New Zealand called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenu-akitanatahu. Similar to the lake mentioned above, this place name also has spelling variations. It comes from the Maori language and has been translated as “the place where Tamatea, the man who had big knees, the climber of mountains, the slider, the land-swallower that traveled about, played the nose flute that he had to the loved ones.” The hill is sometimes called “Taumata” for short.
30 Letters
29 Letters
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine refers to a synthetic amphetamine used illicitly for its mood-enhancing and hallucinogenic properties. You may know this drug by another, shorter, name: ecstasy. Or you may know it by an even shorter name: MDMA. (Fun fact: in the 1970’s psychiatrists used it to «enhance» therapy sessions.)
23, 24, 25, 26, and 27 Letters
22 Letters
Counterrevolutionaries refers to people who participate in a revolution directed toward overthrowing a government or social system established by a previous revolution.
Deinstitutionalization refers to the release of institutionalized individuals from institutional care (as in a psychiatric hospital) to care in the community, and also to the reform or modification of an institution to remove or disguise its institutional character..
Otorhinolaryngological refers to a medical specialty concerned especially with the ear, nose, and throat and related parts of the head and neck.
21 Letters
Incomprehensibilities refers to things that are hard to comprehend or understand. (We’re pretty sure most of these words qualify.)
Pseudohermaphroditism refers to the condition of having the gonads and karyotype of one sex and external genitalia that is of the other sex or is ambiguous.
And finally, psychoneuroimmunology refers to a branch of medicine that deals with the influence of emotional states and nervous system activities on immune function.
(Did you count only 20 words in the list? The 21st is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, which is fear of long words. Apologies to anyone who suffers from this condition with its 36-letter name—we’re sure we’ve made it worse.)