syllable stress
Emphasized spoken unit
Syllable stress is the emphasis placed on one syllable over others in a word.
English words of more than one syllable have at least one stressed syllable, pronounced with greater force or higher pitch: The stress falls on the first syllable in "camera" but the second in "banana".
Stress patterns distinguish some word pairs: CONduct (noun) versus conDUCT (verb).
- penultimateSecond from the end
- prosodyStudy of verse rhythm
- accentuationStress placed on syllables
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- scansionAnalyzing verse rhythm patterns
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syllable stressspelling
Correct letter sequence
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