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What are the word records for sesquipedalian word (long word), longest?

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What are the word records for sesquipedalian word (long word), longest?
(Spelling / Structure / Entire Word)

[ Editor: question framed by the editor from the headings of the Taxonomy of Wordplay. ]
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[ Editor: from the Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com, retrieved 28 Oct 2026. Classes (common, uncommon, hyphenated words, phrases), scores, ties (-t) and the source codes in brackets are explained in language/english/word.records.introduction. ]

Sources: [1-33,4-56,80,5-82,7-6,11-166,174,12-38,13-117,151,15-234,16-24,93,17-30,115,20-37,182,214,21-26,22-205]

see "Longest Word" article

-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com