occasionally
adverbHow many syllables in occasionally?
There are 5 syllables in the word occasionally.How to pronounce occasionally:
Definition of occasionally:
- occasionally (adverb):
- on occasion now and then
- now and then or here and there.
Synonyms for occasionally:
(every) now and then
at intervals
at times
every now and then
every so often
from time to time
irregularly
now
now and again
now and then
off and on
on and off
on occasion
once in a while
periodically
sometimes
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- accommodation
- inescapable
- sophisticated
- infidelity
- unconquerable
- irrefutable
- extermination
- ingenuity
- frenetically
- irreparable
- equivocally
- paediatrician
- omnifarious
- denominator
- invariably
- traditionally
- inhabitable
- prodigiously
- grandiloquence
- idolization
- modernization
- inexpressible
- comparatively
- circumlocution
- apprehensible
- autological
- magniloquent
- cephalisation
- animadversion
- congratulations
- anniversary
- conglomeration
- infrequently
- unmeasurable
- miraculously
- unnaturally
- nonnegotiable
- geometrical
- postmeridian
- reinvigoration
- tumultuously
- consecutively
- undemonstrative
- debilitation
- simplification
- precipitation
- salability
- circumstantially
- quantifiable
- uniformity
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