Definition of syllable
English to English noun - a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
The word `pocket' has two syllables.
source: WordNet 3.0 - 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 reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, §275.
source: Webster 1913 verb - To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.
source: Webster 1913 English to Tagalog noun - [sílabl] Pantig ng salitâ; sílaba
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
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syllable, sellable, salable, sexisyllable, solvable, saleable, sailable, salvable, scalable, soluble, shellapple, salifiable, solvible, scalpel, skillful, sea level, slop bowl, slavophil, slop pail, sea-level
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