Did you know that the longest English word ever (a chemical name for titin) is 189,819 letters long and takes approximately three and a half hours to pronounce!
Thankfully not all words are as long or complicated. Some are significantly lower with as little as 24 letters.
Here is a list of the longest words in 13 languages from all around the globe.
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