• ⦿not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong)

Semantic relations

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective
wn:example
  1. ⦿the nonsyllabic ‘i’ in ‘oi’
  2. ⦿the nonsyllabic ‘n’ in ‘botany’ when it is pronounced ‘botny’
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:unsyllabic
wn:interlingual indexili:i12677

Other

dc:Subjectadj.all
skos:is in schemehttps://en-word.net/
rdfs:label
  • unsyllabic
  • nonsyllabicunsyllabic