What is the longest word with one syllable

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This is a list of candidates for the longest English word of one syllable, i.e. monosyllables with the most letters. A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled.[1] Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed.[2] Other sources include words as long or longer. Some candidates are questionable on grounds of spelling, pronunciation, or status as obsolete, nonstandard, proper noun, loanword, or nonce word. Thus, the definition of longest English word with one syllable is somewhat subjective, and there is no single unambiguously correct answer.

List[edit]

word pronunciation letters source notes
schtroumpfed 12 Eco[3] The original French name for smurf is schtroumpf, and this word is used as an all-purpose noun and verb by the titular characters. The form schtroumpfed is used in Alistair McEwen’s English translation of an essay by Umberto Eco: «Let us suppose that an English speaker of average culture hears a Schtroumpf poet reciting I schtroumpfed lonely as a schtroumpf.» This does not follow the conventions of English-language versions of The Smurfs, where one would instead encounter the word smurfed.[3]
broughammed 11 Sc.Am.[4] meaning «travelled by brougham», by analogy with bussed, biked, carted etc. Rhymes with fumed, zoomed. Suggested by poet William Harmon in a competition to find the longest monosyllable.
squirrelled 11 LPD;[5] MWOD[6] compressed American pronunciation of a word which in British RP always has two syllables /ˈskwɪrəld/. The monosyllabic pronunciation rhymes with world, curled. In the United States the given spelling is a variant of the more usual squirreled: see -led and -lled spellings.
broughamed 10 Shaw[7] a variant of broughammed, used by George Bernard Shaw in a piece of journalism.
quarrelled 10 OED[8] the more usual British spelling quarreled.
schmaltzed , , 10 OED[9] meaning «imparted a sentimental atmosphere to» e.g. of music; with a 1969 attestation for the past tense.
schnappsed 10 Sc.Am.[4] meaning «drank schnapps»; proposed by poet George Starbuck in the same competition won by his friend William Harmon.
schwartzed 10 [10] meaning «responded ‘Schwartz’ to a player without making eye-contact» in the game Zoom Schwartz Profigliano.
scraunched 10 W3NID;[11] Moser[1] a «chiefly dialect» word, meaning «crunched».
scroonched 10 W3NID;[11] Moser[1] variant of scrunched, meaning «squeezed».
scrootched 10 AHD[12] variant of scrooched, meaning «crouched»
squirreled 10 LPD;[5] MWOD;[6] Moser[1] the more usual American spelling of squirrelled.
strengthed 10 OED[13] an obsolete verb meaning «strengthen», «force», and «summon one’s strength». The latest citation is 1614 (1479 for strengthed), at which time the Early Modern English pronunciation would have been disyllabic.

Proper names[edit]

Some nine-letter proper names remain monosyllabic when adding a tenth letter and apostrophe to form the possessive:

  • Laugharne’s [5]
  • Scoughall’s [14]

Note that both use the ough tetragraph, which can represent a wide variety of sounds in English.

In his short story, «Strychnine in the Soup», P. G. Wodehouse had a character whose surname was «Mapledurham», pronounced «Mum». This is eleven letters, while «Mapledurham’s» is twelve.

It is productive in English to convert a (proper) noun into an eponymous verb or adjective:

  • A 2007–08 promotion in France used the slogan «Do you Schweppes?», implying a past tense Schweppesed (11 letters) for the putative verb.[15]
  • Schwartzed (10 letters) has been used to mean «(re)designed in the style of Martha Schwartz»[16]
  • Schwartzed has also been used to mean «crossed swords with Justice Alan R. Schwartz»[17]
  • Schmertzed (10 letters) has been used to mean «received undue largesse from New York City through the intervention of negotiator Eric Schmertz»[18]

Contrived endings[edit]

In a 1970 article in Word Ways, Ralph G. Beaman converts past participles ending -ed into nouns, allowing regular plurals with -s. He lists five verbs in Webster’s Third International generating 10-letter monosyllables scratcheds, screecheds, scroungeds, squelcheds, stretcheds; from the verb strength in Webster’s Second International he forms the 11-letter strengtheds.[19]

The past tense ending -ed and the archaic second person singular ending -st can be combined into -edst; for example «In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul» (Psalms 138:3). While this ending is usually pronounced as a separate syllable from the verb stem, it may be abbreviated -‘dst to indicate elision. Attested examples include scratch’dst[20] and stretch’dst,[21] each of which has one syllable spelled with ten letters plus apostrophe.

See also[edit]

  • Longest word in English

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d
    Moser, Henry M. (June 1957). Dreher, John J.; Oyer, Herbert J. (eds.). One-syllable words (Report). Technical report. Vol. no.53. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Research Foundation. OCLC 878346994.;
    cited in
    PMC (1978). Albert Ross Eckler (ed.). «Review: English monosyllables«. Word Ways. Indianapolis. 11–12: 118.
  2. ^ «Longest monosyllabic English words». Guinness World Records. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  3. ^ a b
    Eco, Umberto (1999). «§4.7.2: Meaning and the text». Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition. translated by Alistair McEwen. Harcourt Brace. 277–8. ISBN 0-15-100447-1.
  4. ^ a b
    Gardner, Martin (April 1979). «Mathematical games». Scientific American. 240 (4): 18. Bibcode:1979SciAm.240e..18G. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0579-18.
  5. ^ a b c
    Wells, John C. (2000). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (2nd ed.). Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-36467-7.
  6. ^ a b
    Spelling: «2squirrel». Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2009-01-14.
    Pronunciation: «1squirrel». Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2009-01-14.
  7. ^
    Shaw, George Bernard (1932). Our Theatres in the Nineties. London: Constable and Company. p. 205. ISBN 1-4067-4302-X. …horsed and broughamed, painted and decorated, furnished and upholstered…
  8. ^
    «strength, v.». Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.). 1989.
  9. ^
    «schmaltz, v.». Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.). 1989.
  10. ^
    Cullen, Ruth (2006). The Little Black Book of Party Games: The Essential Guide to Throwing the Best Bashes. Illustrated by Kerren Barbas. Peter Pauper Press. p. 14. ISBN 1-59359-919-6. If the first person has been schwartzed, he can either look at a new person and say «Zoom,» or send it right back to the second person by saying «Pifigiano»
  11. ^ a b
    Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. 1966. ISBN 0-7135-1038-2.
  12. ^ Joseph P. Pickett; et al., eds. (2000). «scrooch». The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-82517-2. Archived from the original on 2007-08-24. Retrieved 2009-01-14.
  13. ^
    «strength, v.». Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.). 1989.
  14. ^
    «Scoughall». Scripture Union Holidays. 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-10-11. Retrieved 2009-01-15. Scoughall (pronounced «skole») is in East Lothian, not far from North Berwick.
  15. ^
    «Do you Schweppes» (in French). Orangina Schweppes. December 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
  16. ^
    Diesenhouse, Susan (June 26, 2004). «Landscapes of the mind». Boston Globe. archinect. Retrieved 2009-01-15. So distinctive is her style that her name has become a Euro design verb, as in Barclays at Canary Wharf is being ‘Schwartzed’ .
  17. ^
    Mandel, Roberta G. (Spring 2005). «The End of an Era at the Third District Court of Appeal: The Retirement of Judge Robert L. Shevin, Judge Mario P. Goderich and Chief Judge Alan R. Schwartz» (PDF). The Record. Tallahassee: Florida Bar, Appellate Section. XI (1): 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2006. Retrieved 2009-01-14. there is no other jurist who has inspired the formation of a new terminology:»to be Schwartzed» or «to get Schwartzed» or «passing the Schwartz test.»
  18. ^ Barbanel, Josh (October 23, 1990). «Negotiator’s Quiet Style Elicits Loud Protest». The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-15. I have now turned Schmertz into a verb and a noun,» the former Mayor said. «If you have been abused, we say you have been Schmertzed. If you get an unwarranted and undeserved payment from the City of New York, you say, ‘Thank you Mr. Mayor, for the Schmertz.’
  19. ^ Beaman, Ralph G. (1970). «Syllabilities». Word Ways (4): 79. Retrieved 23 June 2010.
  20. ^ Woolbert, Charles Henry (1922). Better Speech: A Textbook of Speech Training for Secondary Schools. p. 103.
  21. ^ Shoemaker, Rachel Walter Hinkle (1898). Advanced elocution. p. 129. ISBN 0-89609-169-4.

External links[edit]

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Список самых длинных английских слов с одним слогом — List of the longest English words with one syllable

Статья списка Википедии

Это список кандидатов на самое длинное английское слово из одного слога, то есть односложных слов с наибольшим количеством букв. Список из 9 123 английских односложных слов, опубликованный в 1957 году, включает три десятибуквенных слова: scraunched, scroonched и squirreled. Книги рекордов Гиннеса вычищены и усилены. Другие источники включают слова такой же длины или длиннее. Некоторые кандидаты вызывают сомнения по поводу написания, произношения или статуса: устаревшее, нестандартное, имя собственное, заимствованное слово или одноразовое слово. Таким образом, определение самого длинного английского слова с одним слогом в некоторой степени субъективно, и нет единого однозначно правильного ответа.

Содержание

  • 1 Список
  • 2 Собственные имена
  • 3 Вымышленные окончания
  • 4 См. Также
  • 5 Ссылки
  • 6 Внешние ссылки

Список

слово произношение буквы источник примечания
halfpennyworths 15 Множественное число от halfpennyworths, qv
полпенниворт 14 Гипотетическое сжатое произношение, предложенное Джеффом Грантом в Word Ways. (Стандартное британское произношение, из которого это сжато, — двусложное, также представленное написанием ha’p’orth.)
schtroumpfed 12 Eco Первоначальное французское название для smurf — schtroumpf, и это слово используется в качестве универсального существительного и глагола титульными персонажами.. Форма schtroumpfed используется в английском переводе эссе Алистера Макьюэна Умберто Эко : «Предположим, что говорящий по-английски со средней культурой слышит, как поэт Штроумпф читает , я в одиночестве чувствовал себя шатроумфом. » Это не соответствует правилам англоязычных версий The Smurfs, где вместо этого можно встретить слово smurfed.
basted 11 Sc.Am. означает «путешествовал на карете » по аналогии с автобусом, велосипедом, телегой и т. Д. Рифмуется со словом fumed, zoomed. Предложено поэтом Уильямом Хармоном в конкурсе на поиск самого длинного односложного слова.
белка 11 LPD; MWOD сжатое американское произношение слова, которое в британском RP всегда имеет два слога / ˈskwɪrəld /. Односложное произношение рифмуется со словом world, curled. В Соединенных Штатах данное написание является вариантом более обычного написания с белками: см. -led и -lled варианты написания.
broughamed 10 Shaw вариант «bastedmed», использованный Джорджем Бернардом Шоу в журналистской части.
schmaltzed ,, 10 OED что означает «переданный сентиментальная атмосфера «например музыки; с подтверждением 1969 года для прошедшего времени.
schnappsed 10 Sc.Am. , что означает «пил шнапс »; предложенный поэтом Джорджем Старбаком в том же конкурсе, который выиграл его друг Уильям Хармон.
schwartzed 10 , что означает «ответил ‘Шварц’ игроку без зрительного контакта »в игре Zoom Schwartz Профильяно.
нацарапал 10 W3NID; Мозер слово «преимущественно диалектного», означающее «хрустящий».
scroonched 10 W3NID; Мозер вариант от слова scrunched, что означает «сжатый».
scrootched 10 AHD вариант scrooched, что означает «присевший»
белок 10 LPD; MWOD; Мозер — более обычное американское написание слова «белка».
усилил 10 OED устаревший глагол, означающий «укреплять», «силой» и «призывать свою силу». Последнее упоминание — 1614 год (1479 — усиленный), когда произношение Early Modern English было двусложным.

Имена собственные

Некоторые девятибуквенные имена собственные остаются односложными при добавлении десятой буквы и апострофа для образования притяжательного падежа:

  • Лаугарн
  • Scoughall ‘s

Обратите внимание, что оба используют тетраграф ough, который может представлять широкий спектр звуков в английском языке..

В своем рассказе «Стрихнин в супе », П. У Г. Вудхауса был персонаж по фамилии «Мэйплдерхэм», произносимый «мама». Это одиннадцать букв, в то время как «Mapledurham» — двенадцать.

продуктивно в английском языке преобразовать (собственное) существительное в одноименный глагол или прилагательное:

  • A 2007–08 Рекламная кампания во Франции использовала слоган «Do you Schweppes ?», подразумевая прошедшее время Schweppesed (11 букв) для предполагаемого глагола.
  • Schwartzed (10 букв) использовалось для обозначения « (ре) разработан в стиле Марты Шварц «
  • Шварцед также использовался для обозначения «скрещенных мечей с судьей Аланом Р. Шварцем»
  • Шмерцед (10 букв) использовался для обозначения « получил чрезмерную щедрость от Нью-Йорка благодаря вмешательству переговорщика Эрика Шмерца «

Надуманные окончания

В статье 1970 года в Word Ways Ральф Г. Биман обращает причастия прошедшего времени с окончанием -ed на существительные, допускающие правильное множественное число с -s. Он перечисляет пять глаголов в «Третьем Интернационале Вебстера», генерирующих односложные 10-буквенные царапины, визги, скрунджеды, шквалы, растяжки; из силы глагола во Втором Интернационале Вебстера он образует 11-буквенные усиления.

Окончание прошедшего времени -ed и архаичное окончание второго лица единственного числа -st могут быть объединены в -edst; например, «В день, когда я плакал, Ты отвечал мне и укреплял меня силой в душе моей» (Псалтирь 138: 3 ). Хотя это окончание обычно произносится как отдельный слог от основы глагола, оно может быть сокращено -‘dst для обозначения исключения. К засвидетельствованным примерам относятся scratch’dst и stretch’dst, каждый из которых имеет один слог, состоящий из десяти букв плюс апостроф.

См. Также

  • Самое длинное слово в английском языке

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Внешние ссылки

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  • rec-puzzles.org: Какие слова содержат исключительное количество букв в слоге?
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Scraunched and the archaic word strengthed, each 10 letters long, are the longest English words that are only one syllable long. Nine letter monosyllabic words are scratched, screeched, scrounged, squelched, straights, and strengths.

[EDD] The associated 17-letter SQUAITCHED-MOUTHED (lying, deceitful) is the longest known 2-syllable dictionary term.

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Is there a word with all 26 letters?

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What is the shortest word?

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What is the shortest 3 syllable word?

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What is a 4 syllable word?

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What is a 8 syllable word?

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What’s a 16 letter word?

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Источник
List of the longest English words with one syllable

This is a list of the candidates for longest English word of one syllable. Unsurprisingly, most of these long words contain one or more digraphs (e.g., «rr» or «ai») and the occasional trigraph (e.g., «tch»). That is, multiple letters are used to represent a single sound. Additionally, neither the «-ed» preterite past tense ending for verbs, nor the «-s» plural ending for nouns increases the syllable count for certain words, so it is unsurprising that the longest words would use these endings.

Eleven or ten letters

The eleven-letter word «broughammed» (created from «brougham» by analogy with «bussed», «biked», «carted» etc.), while readily pronounceable as one syllable in all dialects («broomed», IPAEng|bruːmd), is yet to appear in a print dictionary. See: «ough» words. The word might also be spelled «broughamed», with ten letters; this spelling was used by George Bernard Shaw. []

«Squirrelled» is the spelling in British English of a word usually spelled in American English as «squirreled» (see -led and -lled spellings). While in Received Pronunciation the word has two syllables (IPAEng|ˈskwɪrəld), it is often pronounced IPA|/skwɝld/ (rhymes with «world») in North American English. [ [http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/squirrel Merriam Webster Online] ] Of those who use the one-syllable pronunciation, some may use the eleven-letter spelling; for the rest, it is a ten-letter monosyllable.

Ten letters long

The American Heritage Dictionary lists «scrootch» as a variant spelling of «scrooch». The past form would be «scrootched», with ten letters.

The Oxford English Dictionary lists «scraunch» as an obsolete variant of «scrunch», or «crunch». However, the only citation given for «scraunched» is from a 1620 translation of «Miguel de Cervantes» «Don Quixote», in which the «-ed» inflection is pronounced as a separate syllable, as was common in Early Modern English.

Nine letters

There are a number of nine-letter words of a single syllable.

*»craunched»
*»schlepped»
*»scratched»
*»scraughed»
*»screeched»
*»scrinched»
*»scritched»
*»scrooched»
*»scrounged»
*»scrunched»
*»sprainged»
*»spreathed»
*»squelched»
*»squirrels» (see above)
*»straights»
*»strengths»
*»stretched»
*»throughed»
*»thrutched»The word «strengths» is unique among these in only containing a single vowel letter. It is also one of the most complex syllables in English, its consonants and vowels being distributed as CCCVCCCC (IPAEng|strɛŋkθs, although it can be pronounced IPA|/strɛnθs/); the /k/ is not part of the underlying structure of the word, but an example of homorganic excrescence.

See also

*Longest word in English

References

External links

* [http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/onesyllable askoxford.com: What is the longest one-syllable English word?]
* [http://rec-puzzles.org/index.php/Syllable rec-puzzles.org: What words have an exceptional number of letters per syllable?]
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7088 The Pilgrim’s Progress in Words of One Syllable] by Mary Godolphin (pseudonym of Lucy Aikin)
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6936 Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable] by Mary Godolphin

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atkins-bookshelf-wordsFrom the corpus of about one million words in the English language, there are about a dozen words (mostly rare or obsolete) that vie for the longest one-syllable (monosyllable) words with 11 or 10 letters. Containing 9 letters are 10 more common words that curiously when read out loud form a rather challenging onomatopoeic tongue-twister.

11-letter monosyllable words:
squirrelled (11 letters) or squirreled (10 letters): To hide in a safe place.
broughammed: To travel by a four-wheeled horse drawn carriage (known as a brougham); Rhymes with “zoomed.”

10-letter monosyllable words:
schmaltzed: Evoked a sentimental atmosphere
scrootched: Crouched
scroonched: Squeezed
scraunched: Crunched
strengthed: To strengthen (obsolete)
thrutched: Pushed or squeezed into place

9-letter monosyllable words:
Schlepped
Scratched
Screeched
Scrounged
Scrunched
Straights
Stretched
Strengths

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For further reading: Crazy English by Richard Lederer, Pocket Books (1989)
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/what-is-the-longest-one-syllable-english-word
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest_English_words_with_one_syllable

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Just wondering if twelve is one of the longest one syllable words in the English language. Does anyone know the answer?

Edit: Thank you all for so many amazing answers! Words are awesome!!

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Tied with “twelfths” with seven phonemes in each

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Scraunched is even longer :)

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Squelched is just as strong ;)

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Also the longest with just one vowel, I think.

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!

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Look, if he was dying, he wouldn’t bother to carve ‘Aaaaarrrgh’. He’d just say it!

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Smiles. There’s a mile between the s’s.

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Aww this answer is adorable!

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Isn’t that two syllables (or is my accent just weird)?

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No love for squelched? It seems to fit right in here.

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Table of Contents

  1. How many syllables does the word spelling have?
  2. Where do you divide words?
  3. How many syllables are in himself?
  4. Which option is a synonym of Rue?
  5. Does rued mean held in regret?
  6. Do you think Crow and hemlock are good things of nature?
  7. Do hemlock and crows are auspicious symbols How aren’t they?
  8. Why do you think the poet has used crow and hemlock tree as symbols in n the poem?
  9. What do the Crow and hemlock represent joy or sorrow?
  10. What is a hemlock tree why doesn’t the poet?

Scraunched

How many syllables does the word spelling have?

2 syllables

Where do you divide words?

If this is the case, the first syllable division rule that we try is V/CV (dividing up the word BEFORE the consonant). For example, in the word “robot,” we divide up the word before the b. This creates an open syllable, “ro,” that ends in a vowel. As a result, the o in that syllable is a long o.

How many syllables are in himself?

Which option is a synonym of Rue?

In this page you can discover 32 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for rue, like: pity, be sorry, mourn, regret, anguish, dolor, grief, grieve, remorse, deplore and compassion.

Does rued mean held in regret?

In the poem dust of snow rued means ‘held in regret’. In the poem” Dust of Snow ” the word ‘rued’ means ‘held in reget’ .

Do you think Crow and hemlock are good things of nature?

Crow and hemlock represent sorrow and grief in nature. We can not say that they are bad thins it is just their nature that represents the depression. Explanation: In the poem, the poet took them as a factor of depression.

Do hemlock and crows are auspicious symbols How aren’t they?

Answer: The poem Dust of Snow is written by Robert Frost. In this poem, the hemlock tree is considered inauspicious as it is poisonous and toxic. The crow has also been used by the poet as a symbol of inauspicious things because it is fearsome and survives on eating bad things and is scary.

Why do you think the poet has used crow and hemlock tree as symbols in n the poem?

They are symbols of sorrow. The poet uses “negative” symbols such as the crow and hemlock tree to convey the idea that we can find joy even in seemingly dark things.

What do the Crow and hemlock represent joy or sorrow?

The crow and the hemlock tree represent sorrow. The dust of snow that is shaken off the hemlock tree by the crow stands for joy that Frost experiences. He has, therefore, used an unconventional tree and bird in order to contrast them with joy in the form of snow.

What is a hemlock tree why doesn’t the poet?

Answer. Answer: Hemlock tree is a poisonous tree with white flowers and the poet doesn’t write a about other beautiful trees like maple,oak or pine because he is expressing his sorrow and bad mood.

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Do you want to impress your friends with the longest English words? This blog is for you! Some of these words aren’t used very often, but some of them are quite common and you will absolutely be able to use them whenever you’re speaking English. 

  • The longest word in English
  • The longest word in the dictionary
  • The longest words we actually use
  • The longest word with one syllable
  • The longest word with one vowel

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The longest word in English

The actual longest word in English is unfortunately so long that I can’t write it here. It has 189,819 letters and takes over three hours to say! We don’t have time for that. And thankfully, it isn’t a word you’re likely to use because it’s the chemical name for titin. Here’s a very brief snapshot: meth…ucine. Just add 189,810 letters in between. 

The longest word in the dictionary

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in any major English dictionary. It refers to a lung disease which can also be called silicosis. Why the long version then? Because it was deliberately made up to be the longest word in the English dictionary. The longest non-technical, non-medical word in an English dictionary is the 29-letter flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication. This is a Latin word that means the act of estimating that something is worthless. 

The longest words we actually use

You might have realized you’ve never heard anyone use any of the words we’ve mentioned so far. That has nothing to do with your level of English – most native speakers don’t know those words either! The longest words you will see in a normal English text are counterrevolutionaries and deinstitutionalisation, both with 22 letters. Another, with 21 letters, is incomprehensibilities, meaning things which are impossible to understand. The longest word we use regularly in everyday speech is probably uncharacteristically, at 20 letters. 

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The longest word with one syllable

Brits and Americans are going to argue over this one. Because of our different pronunciations, we don’t agree on what is the longest one-syllable word in English. People from the US and Canada might tell you that it’s the word squirrel(l)ed. This has ten or eleven letters, again depending on where you’re from. While our transatlantic friends pronounce this something like ‘squirld’ (ˈskwərld), Brits pronounce the word squirrelled with two syllables: ‘squir-relled’ (ˈskwir-əld). I don’t want to say who’s wrong or right but… we are learning British English here. 

There are several longest words with one syllable in British English and they all have nine letters: screeched, scratched and strengths are just three of them. (We’re going to see strengths again in a bit – it’s our word of the day today.)

The longest word with only vowels

Euouae wins this category. With six letters, it is the longest word in English with only vowels. However, ask an English person what this word means and they probably won’t have a clue. It’s a musical word from medieval times, so not a massively useful term to know for most of us.

The longest word without a vowel

People argue over this one because it’s hard to agree on what is or isn’t a vowel. If we take the standard English definition that there are five vowels – a e i o u – then rhythms is the longest English word without a vowel. But some people will say that the y in rhythm acts as a vowel.

Another worthy contender for this category is the word tsktsks. That doesn’t look much like English, does it? It’s more of a sound than a word and it’s sometimes spelt tsk-tsks, but tsktsks is allowed in Scrabble so I think it counts. It’s similar to a tut-tut sound of disapproval. 

The longest word with one vowel

Strengths! Our word of the day is back. Strengths, with nine letters, is the longest word in English with only one vowel. A fairly close rival is schnapps, which has eight letters; so let’s raise a glass to it, and to all of the long words we’ve met today, and say ‘cheers’.  

Which of these long words do you think you’ll be able to use in your next English conversation?

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Laura is a freelance writer and was an ESL teacher for eight years. She was born in the UK and has lived in Australia and Poland, where she writes blogs for Lingoda about everything from grammar to dating English speakers. She’s definitely better at the first one. She loves travelling and that’s the other major topic that she writes on. Laura likes pilates and cycling, but when she’s feeling lazy she can be found curled up watching Netflix. She’s currently learning Polish, and her battle with that mystifying language has given her huge empathy for anyone struggling to learn English. Find out more about her work in her portfolio.

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