pentasyllabic

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   having or characterized by or consisting of five syllables

   Similarsyllabic

Questions about pentasyllabic

What does pentasyllabic mean?

pentasyllabic means "having or characterized by or consisting of five syllables".

How many syllables are in pentasyllabic?

pentasyllabic has 5 syllables: pen-ta-syl-la-bic. The stress falls on "la".

Is pentasyllabic a common word?

pentasyllabic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.