am·bi·syl·lab·ic
Definition of ambisyllabic
of a sound or cluster of sounds
: partly in the first and partly in the second or not assignable to one only of two consecutive syllables
the n in cynic is ambisyllabic
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The first known use of ambisyllabic was in 1942
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