Syllable is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SYLLABLE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pronounce units of spoken language
• pronounce (a word or phrase) clearly, syllable by syllable.
• To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.
NOUN:
• a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; for example, there are two syllables in water and three in inferno.
• a character or characters representing a syllable.
• the least amount of speech or writing; the least mention of something
• part of a word pronounced as a unit
• 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.
• 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.
• A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
• a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to pronounce syllables (units of spoken language)

Words related to SYLLABLE

syllabled15 syllables14 syllabling16

Words that contain SYLLABLE

syllabled15 syllables14 disyllable16 dissyllable17 disyllables17 trisyllable16 unsyllabled17 decasyllable20 dissyllables18 monosyllable19 octosyllable19 polysyllable22 trisyllables17 decasyllables21 monosyllables20 octosyllables20 polysyllables23 tetrasyllable18 dodecasyllable23 quadrisyllable29 tetrasyllables19 dodecasyllables24 hendecasyllable26 quadrisyllables30 hendecasyllables27

How to use SYLLABLE in a sentence

• His voice rises, and every syllable is firm and musical.
• Every verse must be accented upon the syllable nominally preceding the final syllable.
• The first half of each line contains four accents, the fourth falling upon the last syllable.
• I had not, however, breathed a syllable of love, nor was it ever my intention to do so.
• But without knowing one syllable of the story, and from mere contradiction, he supported the Secretary in his conduct, that is, he took that line as his advocate.
• I sat confounded, not daring to utter another syllable, and for at least two whole minutes there was dead silence round the table.
• In the discharge of his duties I observed him to be remarkably exact and vigilant, breaking off his discourse at a syllable, and remaining silent until what he had to do was done.
• Our ears were strained to catch every syllable, and we gathered considerable desired information that otherwise would not have leaked out.
• Correct repetition of a syllable pronounced to him is, however, very rare.
• A syllable is an elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, which can be given easy and distinct utterance at one effort.
• There was not one syllable in it to say that Blondel was there, and was going to help the king to get out of prison.
• And not a syllable had any person in the box said to him about his great task.
• Poor creatures, who knows into what hands they might fall! They bowed their heads in anguish, without uttering a syllable.
• Before uttering a syllable, the interesting stranger walked to a corner of the room, turned himself to the wall, and muttered a few undistinguishable words.
• Alderman Van Beverout and his friends were in the boat again, before a syllable was exchanged between them.
• Nobody seems to have known a syllable about them but the apostles and their converts.
• He was as thin and dry as ever, addicted to the use of words of one syllable, and sparing even with them.
• It often happens that a word is compounded as it were of two, or in some cases the same word, or syllable, is repeated.

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