syllabificate

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verb

syllabize

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Meanings

verbsyllabificate (third-person singular simple present syllabificates, present participle syllabificating, simple past and past participle syllabificated)

present singular third person syllabificates · participle present syllabificating · participle past syllabificated · past syllabificated

  1. nonstandardraresyllabize

    How Well Can You Syllabificate?

    2000, Tony Walsh, Success with Syllables, page 42, section title
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    Her squawk came out in two distinct syllables, rather like the way I had been syllabificating “Rooo-beee!”

    1974, Joan McIntyre, Mind in the Waters: A Book to Celebrate the Consciousness of Whales and Dolphins, Scribner, page 188

    Of the two or more consonants forming a conjunct which occurs within a word, the first belongs to the preceding vowel and the rest to the following; mantri: ‘secretary’ will be syllabificated as man-tri:.

    1982, Journal of the School of Languages (Jawaharlal Nehru University), volume 8, page 27

Origin

First attested in 1974; back-formation from syllabification; compare the earlier syllabificating.

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APA

syllabificate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/syllabificate

MLA

“syllabificate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/syllabificate. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “syllabificate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/syllabificate.

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