syllable

suffix a syllable to a word

The first syllable should be accented.

a canonical syllable pattern

Do not alter a syllable of this message.

an unstressed syllable in a word.

The stress on the last syllable is light.

some languages add an extra syllable to mark plurality.

Italian words usually have the main stress on the penultimate syllable in the word.

measures of two or three syllables are more frequent in English prose.

I'd never have breathed a syllable if he'd kept quiet.

the syllable naming the the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization.

the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization.

words of one syllable are usually compared by ‘-er’ and ‘-est’.

His emotions mostly emerged in these tanka, or 31-syllable poems.

The issues of syllables and syllabification have always been the focus of syllabic theories in the current main-stream phonologies.

Lines composed primarily of anapestic feet, often with an additional unstressed syllable the end of the first line, are much rarer in English verse.

The words, the pauses, the syllables, the phones, and even some subphonemic events are located in the recorded signal.

If it has one syllable, add " ER" .

OK, so we actually lose a syllable there.

There are two syllables in the word " button" .

Well, he used the syllables from United.

Along the southern coast, these checked tone syllables have a final stop sound .

So here it goes — what is a syllable?

There are three syllables in the word beautiful.

In British English, it just has three syllables.

You're missing a syllable, but I like it.

He enunciated every syllable, as if he were talking to someone mentally handicapped.