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syllabicating

syllabicating is the present participle and gerund of syllabicate.

Meaning of syllabicate

Verb

syllabicate (third-person singular simple present syllabicates, present participle syllabicating, simple past and past participle syllabicated)

  1. (rare) To syllabify.
    • To Syllabicate, which is to find out a word by its syllables.1654, Joseph Brooksbank, Plain, brief, and pertinent Rules for the judicious and artificial Syllabication of all English Words, page 27

Questions about syllabicating

What is syllabicating the present participle and gerund of?
Syllabicating is the present participle and gerund of syllabicate.

Words near syllabicating in the dictionary

  1. syllabical
  2. syllabically
  3. syllabicate
  4. syllabicated
  5. syllabicates
  6. syllabicating
  7. syllabication
  8. syllabications
  9. syllabicity
  10. syllabicness
  11. syllabics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: syllabicating (page history and authors); syllabicate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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