syllable in English

noun
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a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; e.g., there are two syllables in water and three in inferno.
The vowels of the stressed syllables in such words as father and fodder are generally identical.
verb
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pronounce (a word or phrase) clearly, syllable by syllable.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "syllable" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "syllable", or refer to the context using the word "syllable" in the English Dictionary.

1. 10 Do this fir 2-syllable, 3-syllable and 4-syllable words, and practise as below.

2. Thus, Anacreontics had a seven-syllable line that had an accented syllable at the beginning and an eight-syllable line that started with an unaccented syllable

3. (adjective) An Atonic syllable.

4. He articulated each syllable carefully.

5. Please accent the first syllable.

6. Not accented: an Atonic syllable

7. He didn't utter a syllable.

8. 15 One-Syllable Rhymes of Corroders

9. 6 One-Syllable Rhymes of Blockish

10. 7 One-Syllable Rhymes of Boodled

11. 19 One-Syllable Rhymes of Blandishing

12. 150 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Altercate

13. 30 One-Syllable Rhymes of Altercate

14. 1564 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Corroders

15. 35 One-Syllable Rhymes of Curtseyed

16. 16 One-Syllable Rhymes of Beadiest

17. 25 One-Syllable Rhymes of Bedims

18. 2132 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Blandishing

19. 163 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Cajolement

20. 10 One-Syllable Rhymes of Cajolement

21. 10 One-Syllable Rhymes of Cragginess

22. 821 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Bountyless

23. 10 One-Syllable Rhymes of Bountyless

24. 16 One-Syllable Rhymes of Briniest

25. 17 One-Syllable Rhymes of Benumbs

26. 9 One-Syllable Rhymes of Blameable

27. The first syllable takes the stress.

28. 203 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Blockish

29. 346 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Briniest

30. 821 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Cragginess

31. 350 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Boodled

32. 86 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Benumbs

33. 247 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Bedims

34. 832 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Blameable

35. 10 One-Syllable Rhymes of Accusativeness

36. 13 One-Syllable Rhymes of Approbated

37. The first syllable should be accented.

38. 139 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Curtseyed

39. 346 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Beadiest

40. 346 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Brassiest

41. 16 One-Syllable Rhymes of Brassiest

42. 821 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Accusativeness

43. 490 Two-Syllable Rhymes of Approbated

44. Antepenultimate Although stress falls predominantly on the penultimate syllable in nouns, Antepenultimate and final syllable stress occur as well

45. 'Potato' is stressed on the second syllable.

46. Put the stress on the second syllable.

47. Barytone definition, having the last syllable unaccented

48. Which syllable does the stress fall on?

49. The accent falls on the third syllable.

50. Learn how to pronounce Corrida in Spanish with video, audio, and syllable-by-syllable spelling from Latin America and Spain.