Seven Syllable Words

Seven syllable words are rare in everyday English. Most, like in-dus-tri-al-i-za-tion and in-ter-dis-ci-pli-nar-y, come from science, medicine or academic writing.

Most common seven syllable words

  • confidentiality
  • interdisciplinary
  • meteorological
  • socioeconomic
  • epidemiology
  • individuality
  • telecommunication
  • autobiographical
  • multiculturalism
  • industrialization
  • individualism
  • radioactivity
  • inevitability
  • hypersensitivity
  • heterogeneity
  • incompatibility
  • individualistic
  • unpredictability
  • immunodeficiency
  • environmentalism
  • cardiomyopathy
  • irresponsibility
  • anesthesiologist
  • epistemological
  • vegetarianism
  • decriminalization
  • electromechanical
  • unavailability
  • unceremoniously
  • uncharacteristically
  • anesthesiology
  • cardiopulmonary
  • epidemiologist
  • undifferentiated
  • superconductivity
  • internationalism
  • electromagnetism
  • unreliability
  • oversimplification
  • stereotypically
  • miniaturization
  • extraterritorial
  • invulnerability
  • inaccessibility
  • contemporaneously
  • electrocardiogram
  • neurofibromatosis
  • cytomegalovirus
  • arteriosclerosis
  • institutionalizing
  • septuagenarian
  • unilateralism
  • editorializing
  • comprehensibility
  • supernaturalism
  • indestructibility
  • denationalization
  • institutionalizes
  • unprofitability
Syllable counts come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (American English). Words with more than one common pronunciation count are left out of these lists.