A recent update from the folks at the Oxford English Dictionary tells us that "set" has suffered a setback: it is no longer the longest entry in the OED. "Make" has taken its place, but "set" could return in a few years when the OED editors get to it in their revisions. (There is an update to the OED every three months; the latest covered the words "Prakrit" to "prim.") Currently, the top five words, in terms of length of entry in OED:
- make
- set
- run
- take
- go