single syllable

[justineo]

What are the 2 longest one syllable words in the English language?

[johnalex]

Strengths ?

[lelliej]

The OED gives the ten-letter word scraunched from the english translation of Don Quixote!

[justineo]

I just thought of strengths johnalex, never heard of scraunched, lelliej.  thanks

[biley]

I go with the old joke - smiles - there is a mile from one end to the other!!!

[SeaJayPea]

You can have STRAIGHT as a noun, on a racetrack etc, so presumably you can have the plural, STRAIGHTS, which is nine letters.

[Quizmonster]

Squirrelled. It doesn't work in standard British English, I know, but most North Americans pronounce the word as a monosyllable..."squirld", in effect...as in "He had squirrelled away money in lots of accounts."

[johnalex]

'Strengths' is all the more unusual, having 8 consonants but only 1 vowel. Beat that!

[incognito]

screeched (and its variants) ,scratched, stretched, scrunched all have 9 letters.
I've yet to equal the 10-letter 'scraunched'......but it's not in Chambers