atticism
How to pronounce atticism:
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- excogitate
- passivism
- pestilential
- delectation
- mannerism
- congruity
- elegiac
- overbearing
- emasculate
- desperacy
- onesimus
- beautifully
- quintessential
- affectious
- charismatic
- passionate
- melismatic
- Bodhisattva
- open dating
- examinee
- indignantly
- knowledgeably
- belligerent
- balaclava
- acquiescence
- captivating
- euphemism
- capybara
- accommodate
- disgustingly
- inconvenience
- deceivingly
- oscillation
- anticlockwise
- unthinkable
- personally
- agriculture
- hurriedly
- eloquent
- centillion
- admittedly
- intermingle
- Hiroshima
- advisable
- phenolphthalein
- analytic
- procrastinate
- proverbial
- overshadow
- disconcerted
- … more
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In English, certain prefixes and suffixes, when added to a base word, can change its syllable count, as with 'happy' (2 syllables) becoming 'unhappiness' (4 syllables).
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