proficiency
nounHow many syllables in proficiency?
There are 4 syllables in the word proficiency.How to pronounce proficiency:
Definition of proficiency:
- proficiency (noun):
- great skill or competence
- advancement in knowledge or skill progress
- the quality of having great facility and competence.
Synonyms for proficiency:
ability
accomplishment
aptitude
command
competence
craft
dexterity
experience
expertise
expertness
facility
familiarity
fluency
iq
knack
know-how
literacy
mastership
mastery
practice
practise
skilfulness
skill
skill(s)
talent
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Antonyms for proficiency:
amateurishness
antipathy
artlessness
avocation
awkwardness
babyishness
block
brute force
cack-handedness
callowness
childishness
cluelessness
clumsiness
crudeness
debilitation
decline
defectiveness
deficiencies
deficiency
deficit
difficulty
disability
disablement
disadvantage
disinclination
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Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- humiliate
- Vesuvian
- anxiously
- intermittent
- deaccelerate
- inadvertent
- elucidate
- magnanimous
- heredity
- Xiomara
- velocity
- infrastructure
- ambidextrous
- serenity
- irrigation
- dexterously
- electrician
- prepossessing
- elocution
- existential
- spiritual
- ministration
- arbitrary
- unrequited
- solidify
- peripheral
- open-minded
- contradiction
- amiable
- coriander
- astoundingly
- victorious
- soliloquy
- liberally
- persnickety
- purposefully
- importunate
- uneatable
- fatalistic
- sequoia
- autonomy
- sufferable
- effortlessly
- transparently
- implacable
- despairingly
- mundanity
- illiterate
- regularize
- ineptitude
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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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