ottava rima
nounHow many syllables in ottava rima?
There are 5 syllables in the word ottava rima.How to pronounce ottava rima:
Definition of ottava rima:
- ottava rima (noun):
- a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with a rhyme scheme of abababcc
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
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- remunerative
- microorganisms
- compartmentalize
- alternatively
- irretractable
- habitually
- imperturbable
- pseudopodia
- obliviously
- Machiavellian
- perspicacious
- ineffectual
- juxtaposition
- deliberately
- secretariat
- particularly
- pulchritudinous
- occasionally
- 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
- … more
Syllable Fun Fact
In non-linear phonology, the syllable is seen not as a linear sequence but as a hierarchical structure of constituents.
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