Longest Common Words
Modern Prose


A selection of the longest common words used in modern prose.

(Long words here are defined as those of 15 characters or more.)

WordNumberLength
accomplishments815
acknowledgement815
acknowledgements116
acquisitiveness115
administrations315
administration's116
administrator's115
administrators'115
anthropomorphic215
anthropomorphized117
apprenticeships315
autobiographical116
catastrophically216
characteristically218
characteristics415
characterization116
chronologically115
circumlocutions115
compartmentalized117
compassionately315
congratulations1015
conscientiously115
conscientiousness117
conspiratorially316
constitutionality117
constitutionally216
contrapunctuation117
conversationalist117
conversationally1016
correspondingly115
counterproductive117
decontamination115
depressurization116
destabilization115
destructiveness215
differentiation115
disappointingly115
disappointments115
disconcertingly415
disillusionment115
disorganization115
dispassionately515
disproportionate116
dissatisfaction115
distinguishable115
electromagnetic615
electromechanical117
enthusiastically516
environmentalism116
environmentalist116
environmentalists117
environmentally115
euphemistically215
experimentation115
expressionlessly916
extracurricular115
extraordinarily1015
generalizations115
improbabilities115
improvisational115
incompatibility115
incomprehensible516
incomprehension315
inconsequential715
inconsequentially117
inconsistencies115
inconspicuously215
incontrovertible116
incontrovertibly116
inconveniencing115
indestructibility117
indistinguishable417
industriousness115
ineffectualness115
instantaneously315
institutionalized117
instrumentation1115
insubordination115
interdepartmental217
internationally115
interrogatively115
invulnerability115
levelheadedness115
lightmindedness115
maneuverability115
melodramatically116
misapprehension115
misinterpretation217
misinterpreting215
misunderstanding316
misunderstandings417
notwithstanding315
overcompensating116
parenthetically115
personification415
pessimistically115
philosophically915
prestidigitation116
preternaturally215
professionalism915
proportionately515
psychologically115
psychopathically116
recommendations215
recommissioning215
reestablishment115
representations115
representatives915
responsibilities4616
sanctimoniously115
straightforward1215
superciliousness116
surreptitiously715
sympathetically615
synchronization115
technologically115
traditionalists415
transformations115
transliteration215
trustworthiness115
unceremoniously215
uncharacteristic616
uncharacteristically1020
uncharitability115
uncomprehending415
unconsciousness515
understandingly215
unimaginatively115
uninterruptable115
unpleasantnesses116
unpredictability116
unprepossessing415
unquestioningly115
unsophisticated115
unthreateningly215
vulnerabilities115

Analysis from a total of 1,711,549 words.

Note: The "Number" column show the frequency of occurrence in this entire sample.

prose (prz) n. Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure.
from
Middle English, from Old French, from Latin prsa (rti), straightforward (discourse).


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