noun
- a word having two syllables
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- The word ‘happy’ is a dissyllable.
- Students learned to identify dissyllables in their poetry unit.
- Most dissyllables have stress on either the first or second syllable.
- The teacher asked the class to find dissyllables in the paragraph.
- Words like ‘water’ and ‘pencil’ are common dissyllables.
- The poem contained mostly dissyllables and trisyllables.