What is the most fake sounding real word in English?

[The_root_of_all_evil]

That's just a string of amino-acids; I don't think that it really counts as a "real word".

You'd think that, but it has been used in American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts, so I believe it now counts.

There is one larger at 3561 characters, but it's never been used.

 

[grimsprice]

Women's orgasm...

Wow, you must just be that bad. I can make women speak languages i've never heard of.

OT: I'm gunna agree with Sue, ginormous doesn't even register as a real word on my spell check, yet its in... half the dictionaries?

Ah yes... I'm sure you heard a lot of "Hoshimota!" in your day.

Thats bad... wrong one... lol

Sorry, it was "Es ist ein Wolkenkratzer!"... Whatever that means...

 

[Doomdiver]

Well noone believes me when I tell them a petaflop is a real word. And they believe me even less when I tell them it is a technical word to do with computers.
Also kiloflops, megaflops, gigaflops, terraflops, exaflops, zettaflops and yottaflops. Technicaly it's an abreiviation of Floating point Operations Per Second but it is used more as a word in it's own right now.

 

[IronDuke]

Women's orgasm..oh wait thats two words. Got no idea really...

I could not have pressed that bright red button any faster if I tried.

OT: Ginormous

Pfft, get a sense of humour. I won't complain if you say the male orgasm is fake, because I know it isn't. Mayhaps the truth stings a bit too much

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

For me it's a lot of "-er" or "-est" words, simply because some of them sound wrong, but then saying the word with "more" or "most" doesn't sound right either. And sometimes it's a case where the "-er" version sounds wrong, but "-est" sounds fine (or vice versa).

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

Women's orgasm...

Wow, you must just be that bad. I can make women speak languages i've never heard of.

OT: I'm gunna agree with Sue, ginormous doesn't even register as a real word on my spell check, yet its in... half the dictionaries?

Ah yes... I'm sure you heard a lot of "Hoshimota!" in your day.

Thats bad... wrong one... lol

Sorry, it was "Es ist ein Wolkenkratzer!"... Whatever that means...

Isn't using online translational dictionaries to pursue our ever growing manly egos based upon the misinformed knowledge that the opposite sex enjoys "well-endowed" gentlemen fun?

 

[darkfire613]

Pneumonoultramicroscopisilicovolcanoconeosis. Longest word in English language. A lung disease that miners get from the dust of igneous rock.

 

[zauxz]

For me, its "per".

But mostly because that in Lithuanian it sounds exactly the same, and means the same thing. Its the only word that matches like this. The languages are as different as it gets.

 

[Lukeje]

That's just a string of amino-acids; I don't think that it really counts as a "real word".

You'd think that, but it has been used in American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts, so I believe it now counts.

There is one larger at 3561 characters, but it's never been used.

I'm trying to google/web of science the string to find the paper, but apparently the input is "too long". Which of course begs the question of why in the hell someone would include a reference for their paper that's unsearchable in its entirety?

 

[AvsJoe]

Kite.

I f-cking hate that word; it just feels wrong saying it, as if it doesn't belong in the English language.
BTW I am being serious. I reeeally hate the word kite.

 

[sms_117b]

Googol - 10^100 I mean, seriously, that's doesn't look like a real word!

or

Googolplex - 10^googol, even stranger!

 

[Fists]

no-one has mentioned discombobulated, never looked into it myself but my old english teacher said it was a real word, I still deny it.

 

[Nugma]

MOVIE

 

[The Hairminator]

"meme". No one knows how it's pronounced, still, it's used over 9000 times every day (online).

 

[johnzaku]

Lisp, halitoses, and Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia are examplesof words I hate.

Because whoever decided to name those conditions in such a way is dick

(I'm sure there are others too...)

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Foppish, Fop and Diconbobulated are all fairly good candidates but there's is way way way too many to choose from.

"meme". No one knows how it's pronounced, still, it's used over 9000 times every day (online).

That is actualy french inculturation into English I think.

 

[thom_cat_]

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Which I know how to spell off by heart. It's the longest word in the English language and it means a lung disease which is caused by inhaling fine silica dust.

Pronounced: new mono ultra microscopic silico volcanoe coni osis

 

[Pegghead]

Let's see, coming from a good physician I know, a funny word I know of is Pneumenultramicroscopicsilicovolcanconiosis, I'm not sure if I spelt it right though.

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

Arachnophobia.
I know it's technically Latin but when you think about it the number of original English words is almost negligible.

 

[badgersprite]

Beef. I swear, it sounds like something a little kid makes up. oO