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syllabication

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[si-lab-i-kay-shuhn] / sɪˌlæb ɪˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

syllabications plural
  1. a variant of syllabification.


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From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

The crowd chatter, much of it warmly spiced with Spanish-American syllabication, died.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Fairbain did well and actually seemed to be enjoying himself until syllabication did him in.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

The opening syllabication is like dickcissel's; then follows a trill of no specially definable character.

From Birds of the Rockies by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)

These rules for division are necessarily based on spelling and syllabication.

From Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)

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