Words similar to syllables

Example sentences for: syllables

How can you use “syllables” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The same, however, cannot be said either of the recent and increasingly common af flu ence, barely, if at all, distinguishable from the similarly mis-stressed ef flu ents, or of defuse , when a failure to place nearly equal emphasis on both syllables leads to the word's being mistaken for the verb diffuse .
To this day historians are unsure what those resonant syllables actually mean.
Then there's pseudonym , (false name), eponym (named for a person, e.g., sandwich after Lord Sandwich), and acronym (formed from the initial letters or syllables of a group of words, e.g., snafu meaning Situation Normal; All Fouled Up or laser meaning Light Amplification Stimulated Emissions Radiation).
, etc.) and the law of open syllables that causes the first of two consonants that come together in a Spanish word to be dropped, most commonly in the case of ll, which prescriptively should be pronounced as ly but is much more often pronounced as y alone.
] Counting the internal variations, that is seven variants merely for the last two syllables of the word: to see how the first two are pronounced, one must go to the preceding entry, investitive . It does not get any better, either.