nonsyllabic

Questions about nonsyllabic

What does nonsyllabic mean?

nonsyllabic means "not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nonsyllabic?

nonsyllabic has 4 syllables and divides as non-syl-la-bic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for nonsyllabic?

Close synonyms include unsyllabic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of nonsyllabic?

The recorded antonyms are syllabic, syllabic.

Is nonsyllabic a common word?

nonsyllabic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.