Find the Longest Word in a String help me please

JavaScript
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Describe your issue in detail here.
Can you tell what is the problem with my code. Thank you

  **Your code so far**

function findLongestWordLength(str) {
let words = str.split(" ");
let longestWord = 0;
for (let word of words) {
 if (word.length > longestWord.length) word = longestWord;
}
return longestWord.length;

}

findLongestWordLength("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog");

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Challenge: Find the Longest Word in a String

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function findLongestWordLength(str) {
let words = str.split(" ");
let longestWord = "";
for (let word of words) {
 if (word.length > longestWord.length) {
    longestWord = word;
 }
}
return longestWord;
}

var x = findLongestWordLength("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog");
console.log(x)

please see the code above,
you need to return the word itself and not it’s length.
hope that helpes.

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Don’t you want to update longestWord?

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So I think that if you want to update word, we write this :word = longestWord, and if we want to update longestWord, we write this:longestWord = word. Is that true? Anyway, thank you for your help

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