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Syllabification refers to the process of division of words into smaller parts, known as syllables - based on the sounds they produce. The method involves splitting of words into units of sounds or sounds of vowels. A syllable is a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound.
Example:
1. Run - "U" is the vowel that produces a syllable. Therefore, the word had one syllable.
2. Acting - Act-ing: "A" and "I" are the vowels that produces two different sounds. Therefore there are two syllables in this word.
3. Australia - Au-stra-lia: has "Au" producing a sound, "stra" producing a sound, "Lia" producing a sound; therefore, there are three syllables in this word.
Important!
In simple words, syllabifying is the process of dividing the words according to the vowel sounds.
There are six types of syllabification:
Note: The most common types are monosyllabic, disyllabic and polysyllabic words.
Let us syllabify a few words to understand the syllabification process better:
Process of syllabification:
1. Read the word
2. Identify the vowels.
3. Break the words according to the vowel sounds.
Some words from the lesson "Adventures of Don Quixote":
No. | Word | Split into | No. of syllables | Syllabification type |
| 1 | Adventure | Ad-ven-ture | \(3\) | Trisyllabic |
| 2 | Courageous | Cou-ra-geous | \(3\) | Trisyllabic |
| 3 | Incredible | In-cred-i-ble | \(4\) | Terasyllabic |
| 4 | Knight | Knight | \(2\) | Monosyllabic |
| 5 | Hilarious | Hi-lar-i-ous | \(4\) | Terasyllabic |
| 6 | Excitement | Ex-cite-ment | \(3\) | Trisyllabic |
| 7 | Peasant | Peas-ant | \(2\) | Disyllabic |
| 8 | Imagine | Im-ag-ine | \(3\) | Trisyllabic |
| 9 | Entreat | En-treat | \(2\) | Disyllabic |
| 10 | Shepherd | Shep-herd | \(2\) | Disyllabic |
| 11 | Happily | Hap-pi-ly | \(3\) | Trisyllabic |
| 12 | Carefully | Care-ful-ly | \(4\) | Terasyllabic |
| 13 | Enough | E-nough | \(2\) | Disyllabic |
| 14 | Estate | Es-tate | \(2\) | Disyllabic |
| 15 | Defeat | De-feat | \(2\) | Disyllabic |
| 16 | Giant | Gi-ant | \(2\) | Disyllabic |
| 17 | Principal | Prin-ci-pal | \(3\) | Trisyllabic |
| 18 | Leader | Lead-er | \(2\) | Disyllabic |
| 19 | Honour | Hon-our | \(2\) | Disyllabic |
| 20 | Reckless | Reck-less | \(2\) | Disyllabic |
| 21 | Absolutely | Ab-so-lute-ly | \(4\) | Terasyllabic |
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