The German dictionary Duden has updated the list of the longest words – “verbal monsters”. RBC reports this.
In most cases, the registration includes legal or administrative terms. To determine the longest word, experts analyzed words that appeared in the media at least five times over the past ten years.
The first place is occupied by the word. Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnunwhich consists of 67 letters and is translated as “the rule on the transfer of jurisdiction when authorizing a transaction with a land plot.”
Followed by a 58 letter word. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch – a community in the south of the island of Anglesey, northwest Wales; Kurzfristenergieversorgungssicherungsmaßnahmenverordnung (56 letters) – standard on short-term measures to ensure security of energy supply; Commission Erdachsendeckelscharnierschmiernippelkommission (47 letters) – commission for lubrication of nipples for ground axle covers.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the longest word in the Russian language was a 35-letter word. too considerate. In the spelling dictionary of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Academy of Sciences), the longest word has 29 letters: water-mud-peat-paraffin treatment (29 letters).
