What is the longest word that only has one syllable?

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  1. LoisRyan13903 profile image73
    LoisRyan13903posted 11 years ago

    What is the longest word that only has one syllable?

    I can think of two

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    JThomp42posted 11 years ago

    Broughams: a four-wheeled, boxlike, closed carriage for two or four persons, having the driver's perch outside.

    1. MickS profile image61
      MickSposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Not sure how you say that in the USA, JT, but I look at it from an English point of view and it looks like 2 sylables.  I would say it - bruffhams.

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      JThomp42posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Trust me Mick, it is one word.

    3. Becky Katz profile image82
      Becky Katzposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Pronounced "broom" or "brohm

    4. LoisRyan13903 profile image73
      LoisRyan13903posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Another nine letter word.

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      JThomp42posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Pronounced "Broom>"

  3. JayeWisdom profile image80
    JayeWisdomposted 11 years ago

    I assume you mean in the English language.  The first one that came to mind was "scratched", with nine letters. That made me think of "scrunched"--which I think is a real word, also nine letters. I seem to be stuck in the letter "S" as the only others I can think of right now with nine letters are "stretched" and "scrounged."  I can't think of any words of one syllable with more than nine letters.

    1. LoisRyan13903 profile image73
      LoisRyan13903posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Yes I meant in the English Language and I knew stretched.  I think 9 letters in the highest.  You also get a bonus for scrounged and scratched I couldn't guess those

    2. MickS profile image61
      MickSposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      A ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote, can be found in the Oxford.  There are several nine letter single sylable words.

    3. JayeWisdom profile image80
      JayeWisdomposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks!

  4. Ericdierker profile image47
    Ericdierkerposted 11 years ago

    I am quite certain that I am correct but would love to be proved wrong.

    Mile

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      Motown2Chitownposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Following your train of thought.

    2. LoisRyan13903 profile image73
      LoisRyan13903posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      LOL!

  5. SidKemp profile image74
    SidKempposted 11 years ago

    It sounds like LoisRyan and JayWisdom agree that a word is one syllable if it is pronounced in one syllable, even if, in spelling, it has two syllables, as the "ed" at the end would be a second syllable, orthographically.

    Following those rules, I would add screeched as another 9-letter example.

    And thank, I'd always wondered how brougham was pronounced.

    Might there be some English geographic place names with long spellings and short pronunciations?

    1. LoisRyan13903 profile image73
      LoisRyan13903posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      screeched was the other one I knew of

 
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