Syllable

Definition:

  • (n.) An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, /275.
  • (n.) In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language.
  • (n.) A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
  • (v. t.) To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.

Compare syllable with other words:

compound vs. syllable

sellable vs. syllable

syllabe vs. syllable

cranberry vs. syllable

syllable vs. voice

syllable vs. syllabus

dispondee vs. syllable

dodecasyllabic vs. syllable

antibacchius vs. syllable

syllabically vs. syllable

quadrisyllabic vs. syllable

antepenultima vs. syllable

decasyllabic vs. syllable

hendecasyllable vs. syllable

rhopalic vs. syllable

hypercatalectic vs. syllable

hypermeter vs. syllable

hypermetric vs. syllable

paeon vs. syllable

octosyllable vs. syllable

sound vs. syllable

mobile vs. syllable

penultima vs. syllable

alexandrine vs. syllable

multisyllabic vs. syllable

epenthetic vs. syllable

paroxytone vs. syllable

antepenult vs. syllable

penult vs. syllable

syllable vs. synalepha

dodecasyllable vs. syllable

ectasis vs. syllable

syllable vs. trisyllabic

amphibrach vs. syllable

roulade vs. syllable

bacchius vs. syllable

syllable vs. vocable

octosyllabic vs. syllable

cretic vs. syllable

anacrusis vs. syllable

catalectic vs. syllable

apheresis vs. syllable

mora vs. syllable

spondee vs. syllable

oxytone vs. syllable

anapest vs. syllable

ictus vs. syllable

syllable vs. trochee

iamb vs. syllable

metathesis vs. syllable

phonology vs. syllable

amphimacer vs. syllable

han vs. syllable

polysyllabic vs. syllable

euphony vs. syllable

syllable vs. ultima

monosyllabic vs. syllable

apocope vs. syllable

paragoge vs. syllable

protraction vs. syllable

flapping vs. syllable

hendecasyllabic vs. syllable

initial vs. syllable

melisma vs. syllable

antepenultimate vs. syllable

epenthesis vs. syllable

biceps vs. syllable

elide vs. syllable

dactyl vs. syllable

diaeresis vs. syllable

coda vs. syllable

rime vs. syllable

final vs. syllable

syllable vs. thesis

nucleus vs. syllable

quaternion vs. syllable

hey vs. syllable

prefix vs. syllable

syllable vs. trisyllable

syllable vs. utter

syllabify vs. syllable

syllabic vs. syllable

syllabification vs. syllable

syllabary vs. syllable

quinquesyllable vs. syllable

quadrisyllable vs. syllable

polysyllable vs. syllable

monosyllable vs. syllable

diphthong vs. syllable

consonant vs. syllable

syllable vs. vowel

accent vs. syllable

syllable vs. word

gobble vs. syllable