syllabicate

Questions about syllabicate

What does syllabicate mean?

syllabicate means "divide into syllables".

How many syllables are in syllabicate?

syllabicate has 4 syllables and divides as syl-la-bi-cate 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 syllabicate?

Close synonyms include syllabify, syllabize, syllabise. 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.

Is syllabicate a common word?

syllabicate 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.