The longest words in our list
| Rank | Word | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ETHYLENEDIAMINETETRAACETATES | 28 |
| 2 | ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHICALLY | 27 |
| 3 | ETHYLENEDIAMINETETRAACETATE | 27 |
| 4 | IMMUNOELECTROPHORETICALLY | 25 |
| 5 | PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES | 25 |
They are chemistry and medical terms built by stacking word parts – ETHYLENE + DIAMINE + TETRA + ACETATES.
The longest words in SCOWL size ≤ 50
Limiting the list to words that also appear in SCOWL at size 50 or below (our “common” label) gives:
COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES, ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHS, ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAMS, ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH, COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY, ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM, UNCHARACTERISTICALLY, CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS, COUNTERINTELLIGENCE, ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHS, INTERDENOMINATIONAL, NONREPRESENTATIONAL
How long are English words?
Word lists with inflected forms peak at 8 letters. Number of words by length in our list:
| Letters | Words |
|---|---|
| 2 | 96 |
| 3 | 968 |
| 4 | 3,885 |
| 5 | 8,609 |
| 6 | 15,211 |
| 7 | 23,084 |
| 8 | 28,398 |
| 9 | 24,864 |
| 10 | 20,293 |
| 11 | 15,497 |
| 12 | 11,350 |
| 13 | 7,825 |
| 14 | 5,126 |
| 15 | 3,192 |
| 16 | 4,272 |
(The last row, 16, counts all words of 16 letters or more.)
Finding long words
The word finder accepts a length of “16 or more”, and the word unscrambler lists the longest words your letters make first.