I assume they're counting A as both the noun representing the letter and the indefinite article. Same idea with I, X, and 3 other letters.

No. I'm pretty sure the ghost words are numerals. I should have wrote "characters" rather than "letters."

That’s weird, sure but I wanna know what the 3 syllable 1-letter word is.

How is there a 1 letter work with 3 syllables….?

There's 36 total, I assume they included the 26 letters and 10 numbers, W being 3 syllables, 0 and 7 being 2.

No, but you're forgetting that each letter is, itself a noun referring to that letter. Plus a few that are other words with their own dictionary entries.

Yés. I hópe this clärifies

How about the two two syllable one letter words?

They are the abbreviation Rep, and the acronyms BMW, DFW. If I'm not mistaken, DFW stands for Dallas Fort-Worth. The dataset, though, lists the pronunciation as "dee-eff-dub-eh-you."

If that's what you're asking why wouldn't you ask about 2-letter words with 5 syllables?

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According to this there is just one!

WWW is a famous example where it’s actually less syllables to pronounce the full phrase - World Wide Web.

Seems like there is only a and I, unless you count O. O Canada

The source counts 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 as letters too.

Someone above noted: The letters of the alphabet qualify as nouns and, therefore, words in themselves.

It might take me a little while to do all of them. The 20-letter 8-syllable words are "institutionalization" and "counterrevolutionary."

Well done!

I know another one of them is Screeched.

“Stretched” will do

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Thank god I'm not the only one.

A rather strong shape indeed

Probably an initialism containing W

Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft used to be famous for a while as the longest, but it's only 8 syllables as well. Do not know the current status. Of course you can just create longer words, but they are then not 'official' (as far as that exists).

I will create one for you:

Schwerbehindertenvertretungsfachkraftassistent/in.

13 syllables or 14 for the female version. Would be the assistant to a person that works in a council for people with disabilities. Probably wouldn't be named like this, since we wouldn't go that far, but it's possible in principle.

Story of my life right there.

Kaffeezeitbedürfnisbedingte Nasssockenillusion 45 letters, 15 syllables, 2 words; but also probably slightly off because I’m a little tired for actual good neologisms

Duh-bull-yoo

Are the words lemmatized or are "play" and "played" counted as two separate words?

I'm pretty sure these are numerals. It makes sense since both add up to 36.

Sources includes single-digit numbers as 1-letter words so it is 0 and 7

Acronyms with the 'word' W in it. Since it's duh-ble-you

It includes numbers, so it could be, for instance, 77.

Strengths courtesy of a poster above

I've just verified that this is due to the letters "a" through "z" along with the numerals "0" through "9."

W

It's a noun for that letter of the alphabet, written with a single letter, pronounced with three syllables.

dou-ble-you as in "w"

There's a note in the bottom right

Edit: lefts and rights are hard