Coda vs. Syllable — What's the Difference?

(Music) The concluding passage of a movement or composition.

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. It is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).

A conclusion or closing part of a statement.

A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; for example, there are two syllables in water and three in inferno.

(music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.

Pronounce (a word or phrase) clearly, syllable by syllable.

(phonology) The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.

A unit of spoken language consisting of a single uninterrupted sound formed by a vowel, diphthong, or syllabic consonant alone, or by any of these sounds preceded, followed, or surrounded by one or more consonants.

(geology) In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.

One or more letters or phonetic symbols written or printed to approximate a spoken syllable.

(figuratively) A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.

The slightest bit of spoken or written expression

A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

To pronounce in syllables.

The closing section of a musical composition

(linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.

The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.

A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.

To utter in syllables.

An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, 275.

In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language.

A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.

To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.

A unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme;