Clues for the word "SYLLABLE"
We've had 18 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 23 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on February 23, 2025.
Definition of syllable
- n. - 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 reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, /275.
- n. - 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.
- n. - A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
- v. t. - To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.
Referring Clues
- One of 17 in a haiku
- "Cap" or "tain," in "captain"
- One of an iamb's two
- Word chunk
- "Cap" or "tain," in "captain"
- One of seven in this clue
- Pronunciation piece
- One of two in seven
- Part of a word
- See 20
- One of the three said to be in it?
- One of its three spoken component parts
- Sly Bella slyly revealed part of foot
- Linguistic unit in translation of sly label
- One of 2 in 22, but only 1 in 3!
- Unit of pronunciation
- Word segment
- One of 14 in "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - February 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 10, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 25, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 17, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - June 24, 2023
- Your Life Choices - March 02, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - November 07, 2022
- Your Life Choices - February 03, 2018
- Guardian Everyman - September 17, 2017
- LA Times - December 19, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - November 23, 2016
- Universal - March 31, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 02, 2012
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 16, 2012
- LA Times - December 02, 2011
- Netword - September 05, 2010
- Netword - May 05, 2009
- Guardian Quiptic - May 19, 2008
- Guardian Cryptic - October 18, 2007
- Guardian Prize - September 18, 2004
- Guardian Cryptic - March 18, 2003
- New York Times - February 15, 2000