syllabary

/ˈsɪləˌbɛɹi/noun

syllabary is spelled S-Y-L-L-A-B-A-R-Y: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, syllabary means “A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of syllabary is syllabaries.

How many letters and syllables are in syllabary?

Letters	9: S-Y-L-L-A-B-A-R-Y
In writing	about once in every 18 million words; the 128,787th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is syllabary?

Syllabary appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th most frequent word form in the list.

syllabary0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce syllabary?

UK /ˈsɪləb(ə)ɹi/
US /ˈsɪləˌbɛɹi/
US /ˈsɪləb(ə)ɹi/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-syllabary.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of syllabary

syllabaries plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does syllabary mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.
2
A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable.
It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants.