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syllabicity

/ˌsɪləˈbɪsɪti/

syllabicity noun: the property or status (of a syllabic, generally a vowel) of being syllabic, i.e. able to be positioned in the syllable nuclei.

Noun

syllabicity (uncountable)

  1. The property or status (of a syllabic, generally a vowel) of being syllabic, i.e. able to be positioned in the syllable nuclei.
    • The syllabicity of Proto-Indo-European syllabic sonorants *y and *w can easily be determined by a rule.

syllabicity meaning in Tamil

syllabicity in Tamil

அசைமை

Origin of syllabicity

From syllabic + -ity.

Words formed from syllabicity

Questions about syllabicity

What does syllabicity mean?
Syllabicity means the property or status (of a syllabic, generally a vowel) of being syllabic, i.e. able to be positioned in the syllable nuclei.
What is syllabicity in Tamil?
Syllabicity in Tamil is அசைமை. See Syllabicity meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is syllabicity?
Syllabicity is a noun.
How do you pronounce syllabicity?
Syllabicity is pronounced /ˌsɪləˈbɪsɪti/.

Words near syllabicity in the dictionary

  1. syllabicated
  2. syllabicates
  3. syllabicating
  4. syllabication
  5. syllabications
  6. syllabicity
  7. syllabicness
  8. syllabics
  9. syllabifiable
  10. syllabificate
  11. syllabificated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: syllabicity (page history and authors); syllabicity (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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