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| Word | Syllables | Categories | 
|---|---|---|
| aboveground | x/x | Adjective, Adjective | 
| abreast | x/ | Adverb, Adjective | 
| account | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| accustomed | x/x | Adjective | 
| acquaintance | x/x | Noun | 
| acquainted | x/x | Adjective | 
| air | / | Noun, Verb | 
| airfield | /x | Noun | 
| alien | /xx | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| allegation | xx/x | Noun | 
| america | x/xx | Name | 
| anchor | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| angels | /x | Verb | 
| archipelago | xx/xx | Noun, Verb | 
| area | /xx | Noun | 
| arena | x/x | Noun | 
| argument | /xx | Noun, Verb | 
| arid | /x | Adjective | 
| army | /x | Noun | 
| ash | / | Noun, Verb | 
| assent | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| associate | x/xx | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| average | /xx | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| aware | x/ | Adjective, Verb | 
| background | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| backyard | /x | Noun | 
| badlands | /x | Noun | 
| banal | x/ | Adjective | 
| barre | /x | Name, Verb | 
| based | / | Verb, Adjective | 
| baseline | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| basement | /x | Noun | 
| basic | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| basis | /x | Noun | 
| batter | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| battlefield | /xx | Noun | 
| battleground | /xx | Noun | 
| beaten | /x | Adjective | 
| beautiful | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| bedrock | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| beef | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| belly | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| belowground | x/x | Adjective | 
| bench | / | Noun, Verb | 
| berry | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| board | / | Noun, Verb | 
| body | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| bohemian | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| bona | /x | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| bottom | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| bottomland | /xx | Noun | 
| brant | / | Name, Adjective | 
| brave | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| broken | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| build | / | Verb, Noun | 
| camp | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| campground | /x | Noun | 
| cape | / | Noun, Verb | 
| cardinal | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| carpet | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| case | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| caster | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| casual | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| causative | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| cause | / | Noun, Verb | 
| champaign | x/ | Name, Adjective | 
| circumstance | /xx | Noun, Verb | 
| clement | /x | Name, Adjective | 
| close | / | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| coastal plain | /x/ | Name, Noun | 
| collegial | x/xx | Adjective | 
| colloquial | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| comfortable | /xxx | Adjective, Noun | 
| command | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| common | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| common ground | /x/ | Phrase, Noun | 
| commonplace | /xx | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| companion | x/x | Noun, Verb | 
| comrade | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| concrete | x/ | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| confluence | /xx | Noun | 
| conscious | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| consistent | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| convergence | x/x | Noun | 
| conversant | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| conversation | xx/x | Noun, Verb | 
| cordial | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| core | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| couch | / | Noun, Verb | 
| country | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| countryside | /xx | Noun | 
| course | / | Noun, Verb, Adverb | 
| court | / | Noun, Verb | 
| criterion | x/xx | Noun | 
| crushed | / | Adjective | 
| current | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| customary | /xxx | Adjective, Noun | 
| date | / | Noun, Verb | 
| denominator | x/xxx | Noun | 
| design | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| destruction | x/x | Noun | 
| dirt | / | Noun, Verb | 
| domain | x/ | Noun | 
| domestic | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| dough | / | Noun, Verb | 
| downed | / | Adjective | 
| droll | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| durable | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| earth | / | Noun, Verb | 
| earthly | /x | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| earthquake | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| escort | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| establish | x/x | Verb | 
| estate | x/ | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| everyday | /x/ | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| evocative | x/xx | Adjective | 
| excuse | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| experienced | x/xx | Adjective | 
| face | / | Noun, Verb | 
| fact | / | Noun | 
| familial | x/x | Adjective | 
| familiar spirit | x/x/x | Phrase, Noun | 
| familiar with | x/x/ | Phrase | 
| familiarize | x/xx | Verb | 
| familiarly | x/xx | Adverb | 
| families | /xx | Adverb | 
| famous | /x | Adjective, Verb | 
| fellow | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| field | / | Noun, Verb | 
| fieldwork | /x | Noun | 
| figure | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| floor | / | Noun, Verb | 
| foothold | /x | Noun | 
| footing | /x | Noun | 
| foreland | /x | Noun | 
| forest | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| forward | /x | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| found | / | Verb, Noun | 
| foundation | x/x | Noun | 
| frequent | /x | Adjective, Verb | 
| friendly | /x | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| front | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| fund | / | Noun, Verb | 
| fundamental | xx/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| funny | /x | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| game | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| geological | xx/xx | Adjective | 
| good | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| grass | / | Noun, Verb | 
| grassroots | // | Adjective | 
| grievance | /x | Noun | 
| grind | / | Verb, Noun | 
| grounded | /x | Adjective | 
| groundwater | /xx | Noun | 
| groundwork | /x | Noun | 
| grunt | / | Noun, Verb | 
| habitual | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| habituated | x/xxx | Verb, Adjective | 
| hackneyed | /x | Adjective | 
| hard | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| hierarchic | x/x | Adjective | 
| hills | / | Noun | 
| hog | / | Noun, Verb | 
| homeland | /x | Noun | 
| homely | /x | Adjective | 
| horses | /x | Noun | 
| household | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| human | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| image | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| impersonal | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| impotent | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| incongruous | x/xx | Adjective | 
| indoors | /x | Noun, Adverb | 
| infantry | /xx | Noun | 
| infantrymen | /xxx | Noun | 
| informal | x/x | Adjective | 
| informed | x/ | Adjective | 
| inland | /x | Adverb, Noun, Adjective | 
| inside | x/ | Adverb, Noun, Adjective | 
| intimate | /xx | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| island | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| issue | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| isthmus | /x | Noun | 
| justification | xxx/x | Noun | 
| ken | / | Noun, Verb | 
| kent | / | Name, Verb | 
| kernel | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| key | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| know | / | Verb, Noun | 
| knowledge | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| knowledgeable | /xxx | Adjective, Noun | 
| land | / | Noun, Verb | 
| landmass | /x | Noun | 
| landscape | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| landslide | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| language | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| laud | / | Noun, Verb | 
| level | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| line | / | Noun, Verb | 
| lis | / | Noun | 
| little | /x | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| local | /x | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| locally | /xx | Adverb | 
| location | x/x | Noun | 
| loco | /x | Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb | 
| logical | /xx | Adjective | 
| lot | / | Noun, Verb | 
| low | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| lucifer | /xx | Name | 
| mainland | /x | Noun | 
| mark | / | Noun, Verb | 
| masa | /x | Noun | 
| mash | / | Noun, Verb | 
| mass | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| massive | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| matter | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| means | / | Noun | 
| meat | / | Noun | 
| medium | /xx | Noun, Adjective, Adverb | 
| memorandum | xx/x | Noun | 
| merits | /x | Noun | 
| milled | / | Adjective | 
| minced | / | Adjective | 
| minefield | /x | Noun | 
| momentum | x/x | Noun | 
| moraine | x/ | Noun | 
| motif | x/ | Noun | 
| motivation | xx/x | Noun | 
| motive | /x | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| mould | / | Noun, Verb | 
| mundane | x/ | Adjective, Noun | 
| nature | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| near | / | Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun | 
| neck | / | Noun, Verb | 
| ness | / | Noun | 
| normal | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| note | / | Noun, Verb | 
| notorious | x/xx | Adjective, Adverb | 
| occasion | x/x | Noun, Verb | 
| oddest | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| old | / | Adjective, Noun | 
| onshore | /x | Adjective, Adverb, Verb | 
| opaque | x/ | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| ordinary | /xxx | Adjective, Noun | 
| outside | // | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| overburden | /x/x | Verb, Noun | 
| overland | /xx | Noun, Adjective, Verb, Adverb | 
| oxbow | /x | Noun | 
| particular | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| path | / | Noun, Verb | 
| pattern | /x | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| pavement | /x | Noun | 
| peninsula | x/xx | Noun | 
| permafrost | xx/ | Noun | 
| personalised | /xxx | Adjective | 
| pet | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| pioneer | xx/ | Noun, Verb | 
| piso | /x | Verb | 
| pitch | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| place | / | Noun, Verb | 
| plain | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| planet | /x | Noun | 
| platform | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| playground | /x | Noun | 
| playmate | /x | Noun | 
| plea | / | Noun, Verb | 
| plot | / | Noun, Verb | 
| point | / | Noun, Verb | 
| polygon | /xx | Noun | 
| popular | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| position | x/x | Noun, Verb | 
| powdered | /x | Adjective | 
| practice | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| pretext | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| prevalent | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| prime | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| primer | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| proficient | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| prominent | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| property | /xx | Noun, Verb | 
| pulverized | /xx | Adjective | 
| punish | /x | Verb | 
| purpose | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| ramp | / | Noun, Verb | 
| rangeland | /xx | Noun | 
| rationale | xx/ | Noun | 
| reality | x/xx | Noun | 
| realm | / | Noun | 
| reason | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| recognizable | xx/xx | Adjective | 
| regard | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| region | /x | Noun | 
| regular | /xx | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| relative | /xx | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| remembered | x/x | Verb | 
| renowned | x/ | Adjective | 
| result | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| rez | / | Noun, Verb | 
| right | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| road | / | Noun, Adjective | 
| roadside | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| room | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb | 
| root | / | Noun, Verb | 
| round | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| route | / | Noun, Verb | 
| routine | x/ | Adjective, Noun | 
| runway | /x | Noun | 
| saddest | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| sand | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| scene | / | Noun, Verb | 
| scope | / | Noun, Verb | 
| score | / | Noun, Verb | 
| seat | / | Noun, Verb | 
| seeds | / | Noun | 
| shore | / | Noun, Verb, Adverb | 
| shredded | /x | Adjective | 
| site | / | Noun, Verb | 
| situ | xx | Noun | 
| situation | xx/x | Noun | 
| sky | / | Noun, Verb | 
| slash | / | Noun, Verb, Adverb | 
| slippery | /xx | Adjective | 
| smoother | /x | Noun | 
| sod | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| soil | / | Noun, Verb | 
| sol | / | Noun, Adjective | 
| soli | /x | Noun | 
| source | / | Noun, Verb | 
| space | / | Noun, Verb | 
| sphere | / | Noun, Verb | 
| spiritual | /xxx | Adjective, Noun | 
| spot | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| square | / | Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb | 
| stadium | /xx | Noun | 
| stage | / | Noun, Verb | 
| stake | / | Noun, Verb | 
| stance | / | Noun, Verb | 
| stand | / | Verb, Noun | 
| stopover | /xx | Noun | 
| strange | / | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| street | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb | 
| subsoil | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| substance | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| subsurface | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| subterranean | xx/xx | Adjective | 
| sun | / | Noun, Verb | 
| sunlight | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| sunny | /x | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| sunshine | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| surface | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| sward | / | Noun, Verb | 
| swirl | / | Noun, Verb | 
| tack | / | Noun, Verb | 
| terra | /x | Noun | 
| terra firma | /x/x | Phrase, Noun | 
| terrain | x/ | Noun | 
| terrane | x/x | Noun | 
| terrestrial | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| territory | /xxx | Noun | 
| the americas | xx/xx | Name, Noun | 
| tillage | /x | Noun | 
| timber | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| timberland | /xx | Noun | 
| tomorrow | x/x | Noun, Adverb | 
| tonight | x/ | Adverb, Noun | 
| tournament | /xx | Noun | 
| track | / | Noun, Verb | 
| trail | / | Noun, Verb | 
| transparent | x/x | Adjective | 
| turf | / | Noun, Verb | 
| typical | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| unaware | xx/ | Adjective | 
| unbalanced | x/x | Adjective | 
| underground | /xx | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| understand | xx/ | Verb | 
| understory | /xxx | Noun | 
| unfamiliar | xx/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| unknown | x/ | Adjective, Noun | 
| unrecognizable | xxx/xx | Adjective | 
| unusual | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| upland | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| used | / | Verb, Adjective | 
| ushers | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| usual | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| veld | x | Noun | 
| venue | /x | Noun | 
| virtue | /x | Noun | 
| vocal | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| way | / | Noun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective | 
| weird | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb | 
| wetland | /x | Noun | 
| wherefore | /x | Adverb, Noun | 
| why | / | Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| wild | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| wilderness | /xx | Noun | 
| wildlife | /x | Noun | 
| wonderland | /xx | Noun | 
| woodland | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| world | / | Noun, Verb | 
| worldly | /x | Adjective, Adverb | 
| yard | / | Noun, Verb | 
| zero | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| zone | / | Noun, Verb | 
