According to a trivia column in today’s newspaper, the two longest one-syllable words in the English language are “straights” and “screeched”.
Any other (serious) takers?
La franchise ne consiste pas à dire tout ce que l’on pense, mais à penser tout ce que l’on dit.
H. de Livry
“Strengths,” and it has only one vowel.
When you taste something really good, you say:
mmmmmmmmmmmm
12 letters, and no vowels! 
And how about “schrecked?”
Based on the verb “to schreck,” which means to imitate German actor “Max Schreck.”
“Smiles”, because there’s a mile between the first and last letters.
Where I come from, “smiles” has two syllables.
Off the topic, but pub owner (the wagon and horses) asks signwriter
‘Could you repaint the sign so there are bigger gaps between wagon and and and and and horses please?’. How cool is that, surely can’t be bettered…?
Off the topic, but pub owner (the wagon and horses) asks signwriter
‘Could you repaint the sign so there are bigger gaps between wagon and and, and and and horses please?’. How cool is that, surely can’t be bettered…?
If you want to eat fish, fish fish, fish fish fish for the same reason.
6 repeats.
Geniuss [sp] Book of World Records should have this.
Stretched has the same number of letters.
As does scratched.
OK, fellow SMDBers, you’ve shown me that, once again, I shouldn’t listen to Lou Boyd (the guy that writes the trivia column mentioned in the OP).
So far, we have:
straights
screeched
strengths
stretched
scratched
and there are probably others.
Quand les talons claquent, l’esprit se vide.
Maréchal Lyautey
Where do you come from? France?
Smiles has one syllable. Look it up.
Not really a word if you want to get puritanical about it, but I vote for schmaltzed, 10 letters.
“The play was rather dry, so the scriptwriter schmaltzed it up.”
I’m sure you could come up with more creative entries with Yiddish etymologies.
‘smiles’ is supposed to be the longest because ‘there is a mile between s’s…’
Longest word in the english language today is:
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
LOngest french word is:
ANTICONSTITUTIONNELLEMENT
Longest spanish word is:
SUPEREXTRAORDINARISIMO
Longest word in math is:
RHOMBICOSIDODECAHEDRON
Ah, read this far? ALright, here is the answer:
SCRAUNCHED may be the longest monosyllabic word in W3. Slightly shorter monosyllabic
words are SCRATCHED, SCREECHED, SQUELCHED, STRAIGHTS, and
STRENGTHS. Craig Rowland suggests SQUIRRELLED. He writes, “All dictionaries
designate this word to be of two syllables, but frankly I don’t know any Canadian who says it as
any way but one.”
Handy,
IIRC, that lung disease was made up *ex nihilo</> specifically for that dictionary, and does not actually appear anywhere in medical literature.
I do agree with “squirrelled,” though.
Stretchedgry. The gry is silent.
handy, I’m guessing you’ve been to the Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia site!
I should have checked there first. By the way, my name is mentioned on one of the pages. (not that I like to brag or anything)
Quand les talons claquent, l’esprit se vide.
Maréchal Lyautey
Most people pronounce smile with a dipthong. Approximate pronunctiation: smeye-ulls.
HUGS!
Sqrl
Gasoline: As an accompaniement to cereal it made a refreshing change. Glen Baxter