pentasyllabic

1. 1.

   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 and divides as pen-ta-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.

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.