noun
- words that have exactly two syllables
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- The teacher asked students to identify disyllables in the poem.
- Words like ‘happy’ and ‘table’ are common disyllables.
- Children often find disyllables easier to pronounce than longer words.
- The linguistics textbook included a chapter on disyllables.
- Most disyllables in English have stress on the first syllable.
- The word list contained only disyllables for the spelling test.