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Monosyllabic

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What is the longest one-syllable word you can think of?

No google-ing, that ruins the fun.

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I'm thinking few vowels, something like strength. Fire and ashes, is that even a single syllable.

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strengths

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here is a 10 letter one: squirreled

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Originally posted by Andrew Kern
here is a 10 letter one: squirreled
It isn't monosyllabic.

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
It isn't monosyllabic.
Pedant!
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Here is mine
antidisestablishmentarianism

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Originally posted by Andrew Kern
here is a 10 letter one: squirreled
I went and looked. (10 or 11 letters) but you are right, and I'm surprised that the way I pronounce it agrees with 3% of the UK english speakers. Wiki says A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter [lol] words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirrelled.[1] It also says that squirrelled is compressed American pronunciation of a word which in British RP always has two syllables /ˈskwɪrəld/. The monosyllabic pronunciation rhymes with world, curled.

Also, Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed. So I was pretty close! I wonder what scraunch and scroonch mean.

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Originally posted by wolfgang59

antidisestablishmentarianism
According to wiki compressed inebriated Scottish pronunciation of the word is anthsm ... although in British RP it has ten syllables