lexicology
nounHow many syllables in lexicology?
There are 5 syllables in the word lexicology.How to pronounce lexicology:
Definition of lexicology:
- lexicology (noun):
- noun. the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language.
- a branch of linguistics concerned with the signification and application of words
Synonyms for lexicology:
onomastics
philology
toponomy
toponymy
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- unmemorable
- bromatology
- equivocator
- unenthusiastic
- asafoetida
- verbalization
- prodigality
- irrepressible
- inappropriate
- exclamatory
- superstitious
- instinctually
- semiaquatic
- overpowering
- ophthalmologist
- notification
- incrementally
- uncompromising
- unappetizing
- overextended
- proprietary
- devastatingly
- incredulously
- mechanically
- commonalities
- felicitation
- underestimate
- eighteen sixty nine
- proliferation
- extraordinaire
- imaginative
- secondarily
- pandemonium
- unsociable
- transcontinental
- directionless
- ambisexual
- ottava rima
- imperceptible
- remunerative
- microorganisms
- compartmentalize
- alternatively
- irretractable
- habitually
- imperturbable
- pseudopodia
- obliviously
- Machiavellian
- perspicacious
- … more
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