Syllable

 

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A syllable is a unit of sound. More specifically, it is a single segment of uninterrupted sound that is typically produced with a single pulse of air from the lungs.

A syllable is made up of one or more letters with a vowel sound at its core. This does not necessarily mean that every syllable contains a vowel, but it will include a vowel sound when pronounced. For example, "rhythm," which has two syllables, does not contain any vowels, but it is said with two vowel sounds. Therefore, spelling is not a good indication of how many syllables a word has. The pronunciation of a word determines the number of syllables. Here are some examples that highlight this point:

• screeched, scratched, scrunched, stretched, straights, strengths
(Despite being nine letters long, these are all one-syllable words.)
• shrugged
(This one-syllable word contains the two-syllable word "rugged." It's a good reminder that the number of syllables is determined by pronunciation.)

Remember that each new syllable in a word creates a new vowel sound.

Easy Examples of Syllables

Here is a list of one-syllable words:

• ace, big, black, blonde, blue, board, calm, clean, cool, cross, dark, dead, drab, drunk, dry, dumb, faint, fair, fat, few, fish, five, full, green, heart, high, huge, kind, loud, love, odd, one, plain, prime, quick, right, rogue, rough, weak, wise, wolf, world, wry

These words are described as "monosyllabic."

Here is a list of two-syllable words:

• able, alive, apple, away, better, broken, city, country, daily, early, easy, even, evil, fifty, forward, freedom, future, happy, human, hungry, joyful, language, little, loving, lucky, many, music, nature, office, open, other, over, party, perfect, picture, public, pumpkin, safe, simple, solid, special, stupid, sugar, thirsty, ugly, welcome, woman

These words are described as "disyllabic" or "dissyllabic" (avoid "bisyllabic").

Here is a list of three-syllable words:

• abducting, accurate, adjective, animal, buffalo, cabinet, certainly, companion, conference, connection, considered, curious, customary, dangerous, different, difficult, dinosaur, electric, everything, exciting, exercise, family, feminine, general, glacier, healthy, horizon, illustrate, important, industry, innocent, instrument, internal, liberal, library, masculine, medical, musical, natural, opposite, period, personal, physical, positive, possible, separate, serious, sporadic, tropical, uniform

These words are described as "trisyllabic."

Here is a list of four-syllable words:

• admirable, adorable, aggravated, alligator, alternative, ambitious, derivative, annoying, anonymous, appreciate, automatic, avocado, barbarian, beautiful, belligerent, bullying, captivating, community, commutative, complicated, emotionless, eternity, everlasting, everyday, everything, forgiveness, historical, hyphenated, identical, independence, infinitive, information, intelligence, intermittent, invincible, irregular, legendary, literature, material, meticulous, necessary, ordinary, original, preposition, professional, reciprocal, relaxation, republican, responsible, secretary, spectacular, television, ubiquitous, undemanding, variable, vegetable, watermelon, worrying.

                              शब्दांश

शब्दांश ध्वनि की एक इकाई है।  अधिक विशेष रूप से, यह निर्बाध ध्वनि का एक खंड है जो आम तौर पर फेफड़ों से हवा की एक नाड़ी के साथ उत्पन्न होता है।

 एक शब्दांश एक या एक से अधिक अक्षरों से बना होता है जिसके मूल में एक स्वर ध्वनि होती है।  इसका मतलब यह नहीं है कि हर शब्दांश में एक स्वर होता है, लेकिन जब उच्चारण किया जाता है तो इसमें एक स्वर शामिल होता है।  उदाहरण के लिए, "लय", जिसमें दो शब्दांश हैं, में कोई स्वर नहीं है, लेकिन इसे दो स्वर ध्वनियों के साथ कहा जाता है।  इसलिए, वर्तनी इस बात का अच्छा संकेत नहीं है कि किसी शब्द में कितने शब्दांश हैं।  किसी शब्द का उच्चारण अक्षरों की संख्या निर्धारित करता है।  यहां कुछ उदाहरण दिए गए हैं जो इस बिंदु को उजागर करते हैं:

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