calypsonian
nounHow to pronounce calypsonian:
Definition of calypsonian:
- calypsonian (noun):
- a sea nymph in homer's odyssey who keeps odysseus seven years on the island of ogygia
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- unpresentable
- nonassessable
- incontinently
- sat-cit-ananda
- revigoration
- penetralia
- continuously
- integrality
- Abhinandana
- quasi-permanent
- undeservedly
- cardigan jacket
- individual's
- elimination
- acknowledgeable
- clarification
- audiologist
- assiduity
- undeviating
- instrumentalist
- solidarity
- cicatrization
- communicative
- Cassivellaunus
- paradisiacal
- washateria
- piscatorial
- extemporary
- affability
- exorbitantly
- bicentenary
- unnoticeably
- imagination
- pentasyllabic
- incorrigible
- opportunity
- laboratory
- university
- uncooperative
- diagonally
- capability
- disconsolately
- adulteration
- sadistically
- hysterically
- identically
- recapacitate
- conventional
- unwarrantable
- abominable
- … more
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The English language exhibits a phenomenon called 'schwa deletion', where unstressed syllables are often pronounced as a quick, neutral vowel sound or omitted.
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