100 Examples of Pentasyllable Words

The pentasyllable words are those that are composed of five syllables. For example: journalistic (journalistic), hypocrisy (hypocrisy), category (category).

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: fo (unstressed) – to  (unstressed) – gra (unstressed) – yes (tonic) – a (unstressed).

• See also: polysyllabic words

Examples of pentasyllable words

1. Boredom: bored
2. Academic: a ca de mi co
3. Used to: used to
4. Exhaustion: running out
5. Feeding: feeding
6. Analogy: I turned it to
7. Anniversary: anniversary
8. Anthology: I turned it to
9. Apartment: apartment
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10. Astrology: Astro I turned it to
11. Qualified: qualified
12. Capitalism: capitalism
13. Cardiology: car gave it to
14. Catholicism: ca to li cis mo
15. Certificate: certificate
16. Civilization: ci vi li za tion
17. Classification: cla si fi ca tion
18. Collaboration: collaboration
19. Fellowship: company
20. Complementary: comp ple men ta ry
21. Communication: communication
22. concessionaire: concessionaire
23. Knowledge: knowledge
24. Pollution: pollution
25. Continually: continually
26. Vanish: vanish
27. Discovery: discovery
28. Imbalance: de se qui librio
29. Desperate: desperate
30. Disobey: from so be to cer
31. Ecology: I picked it up
32. Economic: economic
33. Ecosystem: ecosystem
34. Loved: loved
35. Training: training
36. Wrong: wrong
37. Specific: specific
38. Spectacular: spectacular
39. Strictly: it's tric ta mind
40. Evolve: evolve
41. Experiment: experiment
42. Financing: financing
43. Functioning: functioning
44. Usually: usually
45. geology: geology
46. Habitually: habitually
47. Hereditary: i re di ta rio
48. To identify: to identify
49. imagined: i ma gi na do
50. Impediment: im pe di men to
51. Impressionism: im pre sio nis mo
52. Compensation: compensation
53. Insuperable: insuperable
54. Intermediary: intermediary
55. Interpretation: inter pre ta tion
56. Research: research
57. Involuntary: in vo lun ta rio
58. Itinerary: i ti ne ra rio
59. Justification: justification
60. Laboratory: laboratory
61. Maintenance: maintenance
62. Math: math
63. Controlling: ma yo ri ta rio
64. Medicine: I gave up
65. Melancholic: I threw co li co
66. Metabolism: me ta bo lis mo
67. Mythology: my uncle gave it to
68. Officially: ofi cially
69. Organized: or ga ni za do
70. Original: o ri gi na rio
71. Stake: stake
72. Pedagogy: pe da go gí a
73. Perpendicular: per pen di cu lar
74. Personally: personally
75. Planning: planning
76. Possibly: possibly
77. Concerned: concerned
78. Protagonist: protagonist
79. Protectionism: pro tec tio nism
80. Coming soon: coming soon
81. publicly: publicly
82. advertising: publi ci ta ry
83. Rationalism: rationale
84. Reasoning: reason
85. Recently: Recently
86. Recommended: recommended
87. Regionalism: re gio na lis mo
88. Regularly: regularly
89. Related: related
90. Respiratory: res pi ra to rio
91. Romanticism: ro man ti cis mo
92. Selected: selected
93. Meaning: meaning
94. Sociology: partner I turned it to
95. Technology: technology
96. Lately: lately
97. Only: only ca mind
98. Veterinary: veterinary
99. Vocabulary: vocabulary
100. Zoology: zo o gí a

Types of words according to their number of syllables

Depending on the number of syllables they have, words can be:

• 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:Yes / Yes.
• bisyllables. They have two syllables. Are sharp when the last syllable is stressed (dog-to). Are serious when the penultimate syllable is stressed (sea-tir).
• trisyllables. They have three syllables. They are acute when the last syllable is stressed (sorry-nar). They are serious when the penultimate syllable is stressed (co-me-gives). Are esdrújulas when the penultimate syllable is stressed (bru-ju-la).
• tetrasyllables. They have four syllables. They are acute when the last syllable is stressed (ne-ce-yes-tar). They are serious when the penultimate syllable is stressed (im-por-so-tea). They are esdrújulas when the penultimate syllable is stressed (pe-river-di-co). Are sobresdrújulas when the syllable before the antepenultimate is stressed (of-I-I-know).
• pentasyllables. They have five syllables. They are acute when the last syllable is stressed (ad-mi-nis-tra-tion). They are serious when the penultimate syllable is stressed (se-cre-ta-I laughed-a). They are esdrújulas when the penultimate syllable is stressed (is-say-ti-ca). They are sobresdrújulas when the stressed syllable is before the penultimate (pre-gun-ta-me-lo).
• hexasyllables. They have six syllables. They are acute when the last syllable is stressed (es-pe-cia-li-za-tion). They are serious when the penultimate syllable is stressed (u-ni-see-if-ta-river). They are esdrújulas when the penultimate syllable is stressed (I-I-Told-Yourra-ne-o). They are sobresdrújulas when the syllable before the antepenultimate is stressed (pre-gunso-do-know-it).
• Heptasyllables. They have seven syllables. They are acute when the last syllable is stressed (in-com-pa-ti-bi-li-dad). They are serious when the penultimate syllable is stressed (nor-te-a-me-ri-AC-No). They are esdrújulas when the penultimate syllable is stressed (meteor-it-gi-co). They are sobresdrújulas when the syllable before the antepenultimate is stressed (a-tri-bu-and in-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