Jamaican
How many syllables in Jamaican?
There are 3 syllables in the word Jamaican.How to pronounce Jamaican:
Definition of Jamaican:
- Jamaican:
- island of the west indies in the greater antilles south of cuba; a dominion of the commonwealth of nations since 1962; formerly a british colony; capital kingston area 4244 square miles (10,991 square kilometers), population 2,812,000
Here are some other common 3-syllable words.
- trimeter
- spiderman
- onlooker
- pulverized
- production
- spiderweb
- oversee
- carrier
- percolate
- canoodle
- fedora
- jealously
- glottal stop
- gaiety
- composure
- windiest
- Teriann
- ergograph
- legally
- intransient
- disbanded
- cardinal
- parachute
- adornment
- dominoes
- clamorous
- detail man
- sabia
- fireplace
- logorrhea
- kilohertz
- Rihanna
- whatsoever
- Hariman
- disburden
- crescendo
- hemispheres
- frolicsome
- grasshopper
- foggiest
- fishmonger
- placeable
- Cristina
- spectator
- postmaster
- gratuitous
- christening
- goddaughter
- accountants
- Boanerges
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