lychee
nounHow many syllables in lychee?
There are 2 syllables in the word lychee.How to pronounce lychee:
Definition of lychee:
- lychee (noun):
- noun. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried.
- the small, oval to roundish fruit of a chinese tree (litchi chinensis) of the soapberry family having a rough or warty, yellow, pink, or reddish leathery rind and sweet to slightly acidic usually whitish edible flesh that surrounds a single large seed
Synonyms for lychee:
edible fruit
leechee
lichee
lichi
litchee
litchi
litchi chinensis
litchi nut
litchi tree
nephelium litchi
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
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- purer
- smarting
- ahold
- waiflike
- enquired
- troubling
- fickle
- amuse
- fouetté
- reuse
- exite
- abased
- sappy
- misspeak
- mainly
- deepen
- brightens
- surmised
- gotta
- strangely
- rudely
- thousands
- unlike
- fairly
- ensues
- success
- virgin
- scuffling
- tasted
- schvartze
- enclose
- destruct
- swirled
- steeple
- venue
- swallow
- slightest
- guffawed
- manly
- heartfelt
- reluct
- adding
- plunder
- beckon
- shrewdly
- scrawled
- sullen
- coyness
- scenic
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