English

Verb

syllabificate ‎(third-person singular simple present syllabificates, present participle syllabificating, simple past and past participle syllabificated)

1. (nonstandard, rare) syllabize
   • 1974, Joan McIntyre, Mind in the Waters: A Book to Celebrate the Consciousness of Whales and Dolphins (Scribner), page 188

     Her squawk came out in two distinct syllables, rather like the way I had been syllabificating “Rooo-beee!”

   • 1982, Journal of the School of Languages (Jawaharlal Nehru University), volume 8, page 27

     Of the two or more consonants forming a conjunct which occurs within a word, the first belongs to the preceding vowel and the rest to the following; mantri: ‘secretary’ will be syllabificated as man-tri:.

   • 2000, Tony Walsh, Success with Syllables, page 42, section title

     How Well Can You Syllabificate?