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Monosyllabic vs. Syllable — What's the Difference?

Monosyllabic vs. Syllable — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Monosyllabic and Syllable

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Monosyllabic

Having only one syllable.

Syllable

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).

Monosyllabic

Characterized by or consisting of monosyllables.

Syllable

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.

Monosyllabic

Consisting of one syllable.
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Syllable

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

Monosyllabic

Using monosyllables, speaking in monosyllables; curt.

Syllable

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.

Monosyllabic

A word consisting of one syllable

Syllable

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

Monosyllabic

Being a monosyllable, or composed of monosyllables; as, a monosyllabic word; a monosyllabic language.

Syllable

The slightest bit of spoken or written expression
Do not alter a syllable of this message.

Monosyllabic

Having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable

Syllable

To pronounce in syllables.

Syllable

(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.

Syllable

The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.

Syllable

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

Syllable

To utter in syllables.

Syllable

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.

Syllable

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.
Withouten vice [i. e. mistake] of syllable or letter.

Syllable

A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
Before any syllable of the law of God was written.
Who dare speakOne syllable against him?

Syllable

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

Syllable

A unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme;
The word `pocket' has two syllables

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