Almost all multi-syllable words in English have one syllable with a primary stress. For some words there may be secondary stress marks. (These are ignored in the patterns below.) To learn how a word is divided into syllables, use a dictionary.
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father, mother, apple, network, under, sister, finance, civil |
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redo, remake, rethink, unlike |
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restaurant, applesauce, negative, positive, motherhood |
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unhappy, piano, determine, unfriendly, accounting |
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underneath, understand, overwhelm, overlap |
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Negatively, positively |
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America, technology, biology |
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Intuition, engineering, economics |
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university, electricity |
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misunderstanding |
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