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SYLLABIFICATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does syllabification mean?
• SYLLABIFICATION (noun)
The noun SYLLABIFICATION has 1 sense:
1. forming or dividing words into syllables
Familiarity information: SYLLABIFICATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Forming or dividing words into syllables
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
syllabication; syllabification
Hypernyms ("syllabification" is a kind of...):
division (the act or process of dividing)
Derivation:
syllabify (divide into syllables)
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