espionage
nounHow many syllables in espionage?
There are 4 syllables in the word espionage.How to pronounce espionage:
Definition of espionage:
- espionage (noun):
- the act of spying
- the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets.
- the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company
Synonyms for espionage:
spying
undercover work
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- mentality
- capacious
- simultaneous
- even-tempered
- acceptation
- gratuitously
- surmountable
- memorial
- advertisement
- etcetera
- policewoman
- intersected
- overreact
- syllabary
- mischievousness
- convalescing
- bilabial
- inexpensive
- connubial
- extirpation
- practically
- unreadable
- underwhelming
- presumably
- democracy
- omnipresent
- irascible
- inhabitant
- innocuous
- adulation
- tergiversate
- nonsensical
- heretical
- intricacy
- misadventured
- benevolent
- disyllabic
- delicacy
- expectantly
- courageousness
- accompanied
- austerity
- silhouetted
- unbearably
- conceivably
- bludgeoning
- abominate
- brilliantly
- resignedly
- pacifying
- … more
Syllable Fun Fact
English allows for a wide range of consonant clusters in syllable codas, as in 'texts' with four consonant sounds.
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