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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
unsyllabic is an adjective meaning "not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong)". It carries one recorded sense.
not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong)
“the nonsyllabic `n' in `botany' when it is pronounced `botny'”
“the nonsyllabic `i' in `oi'”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unsyllabic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.