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Vowel Deficit (Posted on 2004-04-07)

What word (which doesn't contain the letter y) only has one vowel even though it has nine letters?

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re: One syllable solution

| Comment 6 of 22 |

(In reply to One syllable solution by Jer)

Jer wrote: "strengths (notable as the longest one-syllable english word)"

The ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote, is the longest one syllable English word.

Posted by Penny on 2004-04-07 09:33:45

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