syllable

About 4.20 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A unit of human speech which often forms words corresponding to one opening of the mouth; a vowel and its surrounding consonants.
2. noun The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
3. noun A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
4. verb To utter in syllables.

Similar words

jing ethiopic ethiopian ethiopia beat segment phone phoneme mora foot

Often followed by

of is in and words structure to or that

Word family

syllabled syllables syllabling