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syllabists

syllabists is the plural of syllabist.

Meaning of syllabist

Noun

syllabist (plural syllabists)

  1. One who forms or divides words into syllables.
    • These are but slight tricks compared with what have been played with the Hebrew and Arabic; and we verily believe that a clever syllabist could take any English sentence and show that it was any given language and had any given meaning.1842, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 28, page 335

Questions about syllabists

What is syllabists the plural of?
Syllabists is the plural of syllabist.

Words near syllabists in the dictionary

  1. syllabises
  2. syllabising
  3. syllabism
  4. syllabisms
  5. syllabist
  6. syllabists
  7. syllabization
  8. syllabizations
  9. syllabize
  10. syllabized
  11. syllabizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: syllabists (page history and authors); syllabist (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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