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Originally Posted by chillrob
"Sprints" has 7. Going to be tough to get any more in one syllable.
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Originally Posted by d2_e4
Hmm. Would have to find the right consonant combos. Is it distinct sounds? For example is "sts" 2 sounds or 3?
[sprɪnʦ] is super close and it could definitely be transcribed like I did there with the ts as one phoneme [t͡s]-- this is called an
affricate, where you have a stop consonant and a fricative produced at the same time.
However-- [t͡s] is not a phoneme in English. It exists in Italian, Greek I think, German. English has [t͡ʃ] and [d͡ʒ] like in "cheese" and "just" but the question wasn't for the most phonetically complex one syllable word it was for the most phonologically complex one, and phonologically /t/ and /s/ are definitely represented in the mind as two separate sounds even if they come out as one there-- so "sprints" should count.
There is one other word (that I know of) that has the structure CCCVCCC that I had in mind though that you guys haven't gotten yet.