Nawigacja

The website is

Główna

• Dictionary

  Word: Syllable

  ID	Word	Wordtype	Definition
  154609	Syllable	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.

  
  

  ---

  Do you know these words?
  
  Presentaneous | Prelumbar | Reason | Misedition | Cleaved |