What is the longest one syllable word in the English language?
2006-09-01 09:59:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
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.
2006-09-01 10:06:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
everyone should know this one it is smiles!! because there is a mile between the s's
2006-09-01 12:42:16 · answer #2 · answered by mary_tomson1492 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the plural nouns straights and strengths (all with nine letters).
2006-09-01 10:06:03 · answer #3 · answered by Limon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
smiles! because there is a mile between each 's'.
2006-09-01 10:07:12 · answer #4 · answered by dicko 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
don't know but i have a feeling that you are going to tell us!!!!!!
2006-09-01 10:12:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
screeched
scratched
2006-09-01 10:02:24 · answer #6 · answered by billm_07456 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋