Synonyms for syllable
ˈsɪl ə bəlsyl·la·ble

Princeton's WordNet

1. syllablenoun

   a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme

   "the word `pocket' has two syllables"

Matched Categories

1. • Language Unit

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.5 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "syllable":

   yi, ethiopian, syilable, ethiopic, jing

How to pronounce syllable?

How to say syllable in sign language?

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use syllable in a sentence?

1. Irwin Michael:

   A lot of people are waiting for (the Fed) - basically every syllable of their pronouncement and whatever their view is looking forward.

2. David Kendall:

   This is not a case about the dissemination to the public of classified information, no classified information appeared in the biography. Not a single syllable.

3. Louis Aragon:

   The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

4. Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_:

   There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

5. William Shakespeare:

   To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.