fr:Liste des mots les plus longs en français
This article lists some of the longest words in the French language.
As in many languages, chemical nomenclature may be used to construct indefinitely long chemical names (if referring to fictional molecules), and therefore is not on this list. The chemical name of titin could be translated, and therefore would be the longest technical word in the French language.
The longest word listed below, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobique (38 letters) means, ironically, "suffering from the fear (or phobia) of long words". The word is formed from the Latin word sesquipedalia (singular sesquipedalis), which the Ancient Roman poet Horace used in Ars Poetica to describe excessively long words; literally, it means "a foot-and-a-half long".
Like the other adejctives in the list, can be pluralised by adding the letter s to the end. The adjective interdépartemental (18 letters), which also appears in the list, can be made longer by appending the letters es, which gives its plural, grammatically gendered form.
Long words Word Letters Syllables Part of speech Translation hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobique 38 13 Adjective hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobic dichlorodiphényltrichloroéthane3111Noun dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) hexakosioihexekontahexaphobie 29 13 Noun hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia intergouvernementalisation 26 10 Noun intergovernmentalisation anticonstitutionnellement 25 9 Adverb anticonstitutionally apopathodiaphulatophobie 24 10 Noun apopathodiaphulatophobia désinstitutionnalisation 24 9 Noun deinstitutionalization autocheirothanatophobie 23 9 Noun autocheirothanatophobia paraskevidékatriaphobie 23 10 Noun paraskavedekatriaphobia dyspondéromorphophobie 22 8 Noun dysponderomorphophobia magnétoplasmadynamique 22 9 Adjective Magnetoplasmadynamic interdépartemental 18 7 Adjective interdepartmental triskaïdekaphobie 17 6 Noun triskaidekaphobia
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