polysyllable

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
26
Letters
12

Definition of polysyllable

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A word with more than two syllables. Sometimes used in a more restricted sense.
    “For instance, words can differ in length, and we can rhyme a monosyllable with a polysyllable, like tracks with haversacks.”
    “In the Phyengan dialect, wuy developed into wi but at the end of a polysyllable it often dropped the -y to become wu (ibid): Tang-nakwu = Tang-nakwi 'donkey'”
    “The third syllable of provided is ed, and therefore the verb is not a polysyllable.”

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Etymology

From poly- + syllable.

Words you can make from polysyllable

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8-letter words

1 word

7-letter words

5 words

6-letter words

18 words

5-letter words

68 words

4-letter words

107 words

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

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