duosyllable
"duosyllable" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“duosyllable” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A word containing two syllables.
Corpus desk
Index EN-duosyllable · duosyllable · English
duosyllable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duosyllable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “duosyllable” in English
Rare enough to double-check
duosyllable is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A word containing two syllables.".
duosyllable has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From duo- + syllable. The correct English form is duosyllable, spelled D-U-O-S-Y-L-L-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1A word containing two syllables.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how duosyllable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To this minute account we might perhaps merely answer with laconic gravity, "Suppose," for on this magic duosyllable does the whole tale of gorgeous fortune and unprecedented gullibility depend.
Martin Amis famously saw off the cult of personality in tennis when he defined it as “an exact synonym of a seven-letter duosyllable starting with ‘a’, ending with ‘e’ (and also featuring, in order of appearance, an ‘ss’, an ‘h’, an ‘o’ and ‘l’)”.
Etymology
From duo- + syllable.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.