compelled
How to pronounce compelled:
Synonyms for compelled:
coerced
compulsory
enforced
forced
involuntary
mandatory
necessary
nonvoluntary
obligatory
ordered
required
unwilled
will-less
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- well-trained
- seeming
- reckoned
- swollen
- stringent
- showered
- seldom
- squawking
- method
- uncap
- trevet
- strident
- kermess
- saddled
- museums
- childcare
- succour
- obscures
- forewarn
- scratchy
- Qatar
- chauffer
- bedaub
- staggered
- renounced
- ideals
- hardships
- umpteen
- ripples
- dodging
- clacking
- red leaf
- Hershey
- debased
- tearful
- crumpled
- addled
- Zayden
- unsigned
- slinging
- sizzles
- pricking
- nescient
- filler
- excrete
- stiffness
- glower
- drumbeat
- distich
- thanking
- … more
Syllable Fun Fact
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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