captain
How many syllables in captain?
There are 2 syllables in the word captain.How to pronounce captain:
Synonyms for captain:
admiral
boss
chief
chieftain
commander
commissioned naval officer
head
headwaiter
leader
maitre d'
maitre d'hotel
master
number one
officer
pilot
police captain
police chief
sea captain
senior pilot
skipper
Antonyms for captain:
bottom
follower
foot
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- blueprint
- ballad
- obverse
- entrees
- deceit
- tortoise
- frappe
- muktuk
- decamp
- xenon
- inurn
- clouding
- cinquain
- curling
- vasty
- lowered
- wardrobe
- hackneyed
- strangers
- snaking
- Kesha
- trigraph
- pseudo
- humbled
- pagan
- errands
- hurled
- bleakness
- striker
- Soren
- piteous
- siblings
- pungent
- noa
- Asha
- putted
- permeate
- glimmer
- beset
- valleys
- tantrums
- prattling
- dharma
- encaged
- Myra
- discard
- bookshelves
- given
- dual
- quaver
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Syllable Fun Fact
Words like 'Wednesday' and 'February' often have their middle syllables reduced or dropped in casual speech, showing syllable elision.
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