| NOUN | communication | syllable | a unit of spoken language larger / larger than a phoneme |
|---|
| Sounds | sih'lahbahl | |
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| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | A unit of spoken language larger / larger than a phoneme. | |
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| Example | "the word 'pocket' has two syllables" | |
| Part of | word | A unit of language that native speakers can identify |
| Narrower | antepenult, antepenultima, antepenultimate | The 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end |
| penult, penultima, penultimate | The next to last syllable in a word | |
| reduplication | The syllable added in a reduplicated word form | |
| solfa syllable | One of the names for notes of a musical scale in solmization | |
| ultima | The last syllable in a word | |
| Broader | language unit, linguistic unit | One of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed |
| Spanish | silaba, sílaba | |
| Catalan | sílaba, síl·laba | |
| Adjectives | syllabic | consisting of a syllable or syllables |
| syllabic | of or relating to syllables | |
| Verbs | syllabify, syllabicate, syllabize | divide into syllables |
| syllabize | utter with distinct articulation of each syllable | |
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