syllable structure

1. 1.

   the admissible arrangement of sounds in words

   Synonymsmorphologysound structureword structure

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Questions about syllable structure

What does syllable structure mean?

syllable structure means "the admissible arrangement of sounds in words".

What is another word for syllable structure?

Close synonyms include morphology, sound structure, word structure. 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 syllable structure a common word?

syllable structure 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.