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Longest Word Finder
Find the longest words in a text and what they cost you.
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Quick Tool Overview
The Longest Word Finder ranks a text's longest words by characters and by syllables — different questions, since "straightened" is long and easy while "onomatopoeia" is shorter and much harder — with frequency shown and shorter equivalents suggested.
- What it does
- Finds and ranks the longest words in a text
- You give it
- An article, report or draft
- You get back
- Ranked long words with frequency and alternatives
- Best for
- Editing for clarity and lowering a reading grade
About the Longest Word Finder
Long words are the second half of every readability formula, and unlike sentence length they are usually fixable one word at a time. Finding them by reading is slow; a ranked list takes a second.
This lists the longest words in a text, ranked by character length and by syllable count — which are different questions, since "straightened" is long but easy and "onomatopoeia" is shorter and much harder. Each word shows how often it appears, so a single long term used twenty times is separated from twenty different ones used once. Where a shorter equivalent exists in the built-in list, it is suggested.
Key features of the Longest Word Finder
Ranked by syllables too
Which is what readability formulas actually count, and it changes the order considerably.
Frequency included
One long term used twenty times costs far more than twenty different ones used once.
Shorter equivalents offered
Where a plainer word means the same thing, it is suggested alongside.
Readability cost shown
What the long words are contributing to the grade level, so the effort is targeted.
Says when to leave a word alone
"Photosynthesis" has no shorter equivalent, and the page does not pretend it does.
How to use the Longest Word Finder
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Paste your text
An article, a report or anything you are editing for clarity.
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Read the ranked list
Longest first, by characters or by syllables.
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Check the frequency
A long word used twenty times costs far more than twenty used once.
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Take the suggestions
Where a shorter equivalent exists, it is offered alongside.
Frequently asked questions
Syllables, if you are editing for readability. Every major formula counts syllables rather than letters, because "straightened" is eleven letters and two syllables while "onomatopoeia" is twelve letters and six.
Readability formulas generally use three or more syllables. In characters, anything over about ten starts to slow a reader down, though a familiar long word costs much less than an unfamiliar one.
No. Replace the ones with a shorter equivalent that means the same thing. "Utilise" should be "use"; "photosynthesis" should stay, because there is no shorter word for it.
Depending on what counts, either "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" at 45 letters, coined to be long, or "antidisestablishmentarianism" at 28, which people actually used.
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