syllable

Other forms of syllable

plural

syllables·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about syllable

What does syllable mean?

syllable means "a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme".

How many syllables are in syllable?

syllable has 3 syllables: syl-la-ble. The stress falls on "syl". In IPA it is /ˈsɪləbəl/.

Is syllable a common word?

syllable 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.