secrecy
nounHow many syllables in secrecy?
There are 3 syllables in the word secrecy.How to pronounce secrecy:
Definition of secrecy:
- secrecy (noun):
- the trait of keeping things secret.
- the condition of being hidden or concealed
- the ability or tendency to keep things secret
Synonyms for secrecy:
clandestineness
cloak and dagger
concealment
confidentiality
covertness
furtiveness
huggermugger
mystery
privacy
privateness
prudence
secretiveness
silence
stealth
surreptitiousness
uncommunicativeness
Here are some other common 3-syllable words.
- Uriah
- Murrillo
- greediest
- unhelpful
- battleship
- awoken
- Augustine
- Edmonda
- citify
- fluffier
- disfavor
- crookery
- prytanis
- furriest
- craftily
- recital
- additions
- nobler
- Jamaican
- trimeter
- spiderman
- onlooker
- pulverized
- production
- spiderweb
- oversee
- carrier
- percolate
- canoodle
- fedora
- jealously
- glottal stop
- gaiety
- composure
- windiest
- Teriann
- ergograph
- legally
- intransient
- disbanded
- cardinal
- parachute
- adornment
- dominoes
- clamorous
- detail man
- sabia
- fireplace
- logorrhea
- kilohertz
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Syllable Fun Fact
Ambisyllabicity occurs when a consonant at the boundary of two syllables belongs to both, as in the word 'happen'.
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