What is the longest one syllable word in the English language?

Answer 1

The Oxford English Dictionary says 'Scraunched'

although there are debates about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest_English_words_with_one_syllable

Answer 2

Are you talking about the word with the most letters when it is spelled, or the word with the most sounds? The one-syllable word with the most sounds is "strengths" (there are 7 by my count). As far as letters, you have other responses above.

Answer 3

"The one most commonly cited is screeched (nine letters). However, one ought to mention also scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the plural nouns straights and strengths (all with nine letters).

"The complete Oxford English Dictionary also indicates the existence of scraughed, scrinched, scritched, scrooched, sprainged, spreathed, throughed, and thrutched.

"The OED also cites a single instance of the ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote."

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/onesyllable?view=uk

Answer 4

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh.

How long can a one-syllable word be?

Answer 5

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease, but research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended context, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim

Answer 6

Strengths

Answer 7

Stoooooooooooooooooooooooooop! When the front a Mack truck is 100 ft. away.

Answer 8

ooo thats hard gotta think about that one
how about breathes?

Answer 9

I'll say strength

Answer 10

screeched