What is the longest one-syllable word in English? Hint: It has nine letters.
Longest one-syllable word in English?
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"Stropped" is really darn close!
Eh, was fun to read about but there are ten and eleven single syllable words out there.
Some "burps" (and "farts") can be pretty long! 
Are you reading the dictionary again?
http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/
What is the longest one-syllable English word?
The one that's most commonly cited is screeched (nine letters). But there are also scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the plural nouns straights and strengths (all with nine letters).
The 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary also has scraughed, scrinched, scritched, scrooched, sprainged, spreathed, throughed, and thrutched. It includes, too, a single instance of the ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote, a novel by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/
What is the longest one-syllable English word?
The one that's most commonly cited is screeched (nine letters). But there are also scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the plural nouns straights and strengths (all with nine letters).
The 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary also has scraughed, scrinched, scritched, scrooched, sprainged, spreathed, throughed, and thrutched. It includes, too, a single instance of the ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote, a novel by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.
Some listed here with 10, 11 and 12 letters - although I can't say I agree with the top 3 or 4 as qualifying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest_English_words_with_one_syllable
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest_English_words_with_one_syllable
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Gentleman--I enjoyed reading your answers. You are, of course, right that there are archaic and uncommon words that are more than nine letters. And if you add an 's' to make a word plural there are more words that can qualify. There are actually several words that are the longest common words of one-syllable: 'scratched' , 'stretched', 'scrounged', 'screeched', and 'scrunched'. And since I joined this illustrious group of wetshavers last month, I've discovered another 9-letter, one-syllable word: 'scritched'
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Some "burps" (and "farts") can be pretty long!
We're referring to words, not musical sounds.
Why is "monosyllabic" such a long, multi-syllabic word??
Same goes for abbreviation. Why does the abbreviation for 'world wide web' take three times as long to say?
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