What floccinaucinihilipilification means and how to pronounce it (2024)

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floccinaucinihilipilification in American English

(Try saying it: flok-si-naw-si-ni-hi-li-pi-li-cay-shun.)

The word "floccinaucinihilipilification" means "the estimation of something as worthless". It's an 18th-century coinage that combines four Latin prefixes meaning "nothing".

Floccinaucinihilipilification is the act of considering something to be worthless, as in I was outraged by the pawn shop owner's floccinaucinihilipilification of my prized toothpick collection.

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… isoleucine is the chemical name for the protein of “titin” also known as “connectin.” The largest known protein that consists of 26, 926 amino acids is made up of 189, 819 letters and can take about three hours to pronounce.

The meaning of this word is - when something/ someone is estimated as worthless out of habit or action. Students, please stop floccinaucinihilipilification of your classmate just because he is a slow learner.

The Shortest Word

Some might wonder about the word I since it consists of one letter, too. In sound, a is shorter because it is a monophthong (consists of one vowel), while I is a diphthong. Both do consist of one letter in the English writing system, and in most fonts I is the narrowest letter.

Here it is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, the name of a lung disease that is the result of inhaling silica dust, such as from a volcano. Don't worry, no English native speaker will expect you to use this word in daily conversations or even essays!

What is a 190000 letter word? ›

1. methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl…isoleucine. You'll notice there's an ellipsis here, and that's because this word, in total, is 189,819 letters long, and it's the chemical name for the largest known protein, titin.

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic. This is the longest word in English which is composed of seven words. This 52-letter word was coined by Dr. Edward Strother to describe the spa waters in Bath, England.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word entered in the most trusted English dictionaries.

floccinaucinihilipilification1741– The action or habit of estimating as worthless.

Sesquipedalian can also be used to describe someone or something that overuses big words, like a philosophy professor or a chemistry textbook. If someone gives a sesquipedalian speech, people often assume it was smart, even if they don't really know what it was about because they can't understand the words.

lexicographer ("a dictionary compiler", and transitively, one who knows many words, pronounced "lex-ick-cog-raffer")

At over 180,000 letters long, the chemical name of the protein titin is often said to technically be the longest English word. If spoken out loud, this word takes over three hours to say!

methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl…isoleucine

You'll notice there's an ellipsis here, and that's because this word, in total, is 189,819 letters long, and it's the chemical name for the largest known protein, titin.

How to pronounce Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis? To pronounce Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis let's split it up and see phonetic spelling: nyoo-muh-noh-uhl-truh-mahy-kruh-skop-ik-sil-i-koh-vol-key-noh-koh-nee-oh-sis.