sprouting
verbHow many syllables in sprouting?
There are 2 syllables in the word sprouting.How to pronounce sprouting:
Definition of sprouting:
- sprouting (verb):
- (of a plant or seed) to produce (new leaves or shoots)
- to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout
Synonyms for sprouting:
development
germination
growing
growth
maturation
ontogenesis
ontogeny
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- backbite
- aback
- wrinkled
- werent
- brightness
- tartness
- redder
- loosen
- freshly
- worldly
- daemon
- dromons
- curvy
- vendor
- flipper
- Persian
- shih-tzu
- bedlam
- fretful
- drawing
- spongin
- Keesa
- anime
- robots
- proffer
- dapple
- unlive
- sweetmeat
- labour
- deftness
- achieved
- thereat
- abduct
- slushy
- moneyed
- frosted
- thicket
- lockdown
- whacked
- grapple
- dabbed
- blurt out
- bisect
- unmarred
- Tiffin
- stripy
- soilage
- action
- scutter
- rosy
- … more
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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