s 1 y 4 l 1 l 1 a 1 b 3 l 1 e 1
8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
originFrom Middle English syllable, sillable, syllabylle, sylabul, from Anglo-Norman sillable, from Old French sillebe, from Latin syllaba, from Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “to gather together”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- ballsy 11
- basely 11
- belays 11
- abyes 10
- bally 10
- bayes 10
- belay 10
- belly 10
- blays 10
- bleys 10
- alleys 9
- allyls 9