biggest word

[James A. Landau]

In a message dated 9/26/02 2:09:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
kdegarcia at TAMIU.EDU writes:

> Hi. My name is Alejandra and I'm 9 years old and in 4th grade. My
>  teacher asked us if we knew the biggest or longest word in English or
>  in a dictionary.

Estimada Srta. Pletsch,

A good place to go for questions of this sort is
    "A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia"
     URL  http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html

Pages 11 through 13 of this Web site deal with long words.