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SYLLABIFY (syllabified)
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
Irregular inflected form: syllabified
Dictionary entry overview: What does syllabify mean?
• SYLLABIFY (verb)
The verb SYLLABIFY has 1 sense:
1. divide into syllables
Familiarity information: SYLLABIFY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they syllabify ... he / she / it syllabifies
Past simple: syllabified
Past participle: syllabified
-ing form: syllabifying
... he / she / it syllabifies Past simple: syllabified
Past participle: syllabified
-ing form: syllabifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divide into syllables
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
syllabicate; syllabify; syllabise; syllabize
Context example:
syllabify the words
Hypernyms (to "syllabify" is one way to...):
section; segment (divide into segments)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
syllabification (forming or dividing words into syllables)
syllable (a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme)
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