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unsyllabic
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Adjective
  • not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong)
    • the nonsyllabic `n' in `botany' when it is pronounced `botny'
    • the nonsyllabic `i' in `oi'
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