100 Examples of Hexasyllable Words
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The hexasyllabic words are those that are composed of six syllables. For example: historically (historically), negatively (negatively), unconstitutional(unconstitutional).
Words contain one or more syllables (those units of the spoken chain that consist of one or more sounds, whose nucleus is usually a vowel and that are separated from others by a short and inconspicuous pause).
Syllables are represented in written language by one or more letters and can be stressed or unstressed. The stressed syllables are pronounced more intensely within a word. The unstressed syllables they are pronounced with less emphasis than stressed syllables. For example: AC (unstressed) – rac (unstressed) – tea (unstressed) –laugh (tonic) – you (unstressed) – AC (unstressed).
- See also: polysyllabic words
Examples of hexasyllabic words
- Accompaniment: accompaniment
- Conditioner: conditioner
- Event: to con te ci ment
- Adaptability: adaptation
- Administrative: ad mi nis tra ti vo
- Airline: to e ro line
- Gratitude: gratitude
- Sewerage: sewerage
- Storage: storage
- flame retardant: anti flammable
- Antiperspirant: anti trans pi ran te
- Apparently: apparently
- Aristocratic: a ris to cra ti co
- Archaeological: ar that or logical
- Advice: to know
- Authentically: au ten ti ca mind te
- Autobiography: auto biography
- Motorist: auto mo vi list
- Authoritarianism: auto ri ta ris mo
- self sufficiency: self su fi ci ence
- Characteristic: characteristic
- Commercialization: commercialization
- Compatibility: compatibility
- Confidentially: confidentially
- Confidentiality: Confidentiality
- Memorial: with me mo ra ti vo
- Contemporary: contemporary
- coordinator: co or di na do ra
- Choreography: co re o gra fí a
- ignorance: don't know
- seventeenth: one hundred seven to you
- Discriminatory: discr mi na to rio
- Availability: availability
- emotionally: emotionally
- infatuation: e na mo ra ment
- Encyclopedic: in cycle pé di co
- Scarecrow: it's bread ta pá ja ros
- Specialization: es pe cia li za tion
- Spirituality: it is pi ri tuality
- Establishment: establish ment
- American: American
- wonderfully: it's your pen da mind
- Etymology: and I turned it to
- Exceptionally: ex cep tio nally
- Experimentation: ex pe ri men ta tion
- Extraordinary: extraordinary
- speech therapist: fo no au dio lo go
- Photocopier: photocopier
- Genealogical: ge ne a logical
- Heterogeneous: I have te ro gé ne o
- Spanish speaking: his pa does not speak blan te
- ID: i den ti fi ca tion
- Ideological: i of or logical
- very important: im for so you yes mo
- Impossibility: im po si bili ty
- Indirectly: in di rec ta mind
- Individualistic: in di vi dua list
- indo-european: in do eu ro pe o
- Instability: instability
- Infrastructure: in fra es truc tu ra
- Immediately: immediately
- Unfortunately: Regrettably
- Manufactured: ma nu fac tu ra do
- Mediterranean: Mediterranean
- Methodology: I did everything
- Metropolitan: metro poli ta na
- Microprocessor: mi cro pro ce sa dor
- Massive: mul ti tu di na rio
- Municipality: mu ni ci pa lity
- Necessarily: necessarily
- odontology: odontology
- Ophthalmology: of such mo I turned it to
- Originality: origin
- Osteoporosis: o te o por ro sis
- Permanently: per ma nen te mind
- Politically: political
- Proportionally: pro por tio nally
- Recognition: recognition
- rejuvenating: re ju ve ne ce dor
- Responsibility: responsibility
- Revolutionary: re vo lucio na rio
- Semifinalist: be my fi na list
- Sensationalist: feeling ready
- psychoanalysis: yes co a ná li sis
- Significant: significant
- Silently: yes len cio sa mind
- symbolically: symbol bo li ca mind
- Solidification: so li di fi ca tion
- Sustainability: sustainability
- Successively: successively
- South American: su da me ri ca no
- Superficiality: surface
- Traditionally: traditionally
- Trigonometry: tri go no me tri a
- universally: u ni see salt mind you
- academic: academic
- Vegetarianism: ve ge ta ria nis mo
- Truly: ver da de ra mind
- vice presidency: vice presidency
- Vulnerability: vulnerability
Types of words according to their number of syllables
- monosyllables. They have only one syllable. Generally, they never have a tilde, except for those that have diacritic tilde, that is, the orthographic sign that allows us to differentiate two words that are written the same, but have different meanings. For example:tea / tea.
- bisyllables. They have two syllables. Are sharp when the last syllable is stressed (fa-role). Are serious when the penultimate syllable is stressed (Salt-to).
- trisyllables. They have three syllables. They are acute when the last syllable is stressed (or-of-nar). They are serious when the penultimate syllable is stressed (sa-li-gives). Are esdrújulas when the penultimate syllable is stressed (mu-yes-ca).
- tetrasyllables. They have four syllables. They are acute when the last syllable is stressed (pro-fe-sio-end). They are serious when the penultimate syllable is stressed (to-of-lan-tea). They are esdrújulas when the penultimate syllable is stressed (po-there-ti-ca). Are sobresdrújulas when the syllable before the antepenultimate is stressed (I went-sees-it).
- pentasyllables. They have five syllables. They are acute when the last syllable is stressed (ex-pe-ri-men-tar). They are serious when the penultimate syllable is stressed (in-te-li-gene-Inc). They are esdrújulas when the penultimate syllable is stressed (de-mo-Ave-ti-ca). They are sobresdrújulas when the stressed syllable is before the penultimate (ex-plí-I-know-it).
- hexasyllables. They have six syllables. They are acute when the last syllable is stressed (answer-pon-sa-bi-li-dad). They are serious when the penultimate syllable is stressed (a-con-te-ci-me-to). They are esdrújulas when the penultimate syllable is stressed (arching-it-gi-co). They are sobresdrújulas when the syllable before the antepenultimate is stressed (ex-pli-dog-do-know-it).
- Heptasyllables. They have seven syllables. They are acute when the last syllable is stressed (in-ve-ro-si-mi-li-your D). They are serious when the penultimate syllable is stressed (an-ti-ca-pi-ta-lys-ta). They are esdrújulas when the penultimate syllable is stressed (so-cio-e-co-No-monkey). They are sobresdrújulas when the syllable before the antepenultimate is stressed (a-gra-de-one hundred-do-know-it).
References
- Royal Spanish Academy. (s.f.). Syllable. In Spanish dictionary. Retrieved on May 21, 2022, from https://dle.rae.es/s%C3%ADlaba? m=form
- Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language. (2010). Spelling of the Spanish language. Spare.
Follow with:
- Stressed and unstressed syllables
- monoliteral syllables
- Acute, serious and esdrújulas words
- Diphthong, tripthong and hiatus
- simple and compound syllables