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Ultima

Most remote; furthest; final; last.

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Syllable 76% connected

An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a wor…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Antepenult noun · 86% connection

the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end

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Antepenultima noun · 86% connection

the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end

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Antepenultimate noun · 86% connection

the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end

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Penult noun · 86% connection

the next to last syllable in a word

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Penultima noun · 86% connection

the next to last syllable in a word

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Penultimate noun · 86% connection

the next to last syllable in a word

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Reduplication noun · 86% connection

the syllable added in a reduplicated word form

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Accent noun · 85% connection

the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syl…

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Emphasis noun · 85% connection

the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syl…

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Stress noun · 85% connection

the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syl…

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Invitation noun · 84% connection

a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something; "an invitation to lunch"; "she threw the invitat…

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allophone noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme

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Base noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

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Derivative noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "‘electricity’ is a derivative of ‘electric’"

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Phoneme noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

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Preposition noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or…

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Radical noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

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Root noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

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Bound verb · 78% connection

To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a bo…