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| Word | Syllables | Categories | 
|---|---|---|
| abbott | /x | Name, Name | 
| above | x/ | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| abruptly | x/x | Adverb | 
| absolute | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| absolutely | xx/x | Adverb | 
| active | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| add | / | Verb, Noun | 
| addition | x/x | Noun | 
| additional | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| additionally | x/xxx | Adverb | 
| affords | x/ | Verb | 
| afraid | x/ | Adjective | 
| afterlife | /xx | Noun | 
| again | x/ | Adverb | 
| against | x/ | Adverb | 
| agrippa | x/x | Name | 
| akbar | /x | Name | 
| alert | x/ | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| alight | x/ | Adverb, Verb, Adjective | 
| aliveness | x/x | Noun | 
| all in | /x | Phrase, Adjective, Noun | 
| alley | /x | Noun | 
| allow | x/ | Verb | 
| alone | x/ | Adverb, Adjective | 
| alternative | x/xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| amy | /x | Name | 
| animal | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| animate | /xx | Verb, Adjective | 
| annihilation | xxx/x | Noun | 
| another | x/x | Noun | 
| antony | /xx | Name | 
| anxious | /x | Adjective | 
| anymore | xx/ | Adverb | 
| anyone | /xx | Adverb | 
| anything | /xx | Noun, Adverb | 
| arid | /x | Adjective | 
| arthur | /x | Name | 
| asleep | x/ | Adjective | 
| assassinated | x/xxx | Adjective | 
| asset | /x | Noun | 
| at peace | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| at rest | // | Phrase | 
| atypical | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| avengers | x/x | Noun | 
| awake | x/ | Adjective, Verb | 
| awakened | x/x | Adjective | 
| aware | x/ | Adjective, Verb | 
| away | x/ | Adverb, Adjective, Verb | 
| baby | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| back | / | Adverb, Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| bannister | /xx | Name | 
| barren | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| beat | / | Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| because | x/ | Adverb | 
| become | x/ | Verb | 
| before | x/ | Adverb | 
| below | x/ | Adverb, Noun | 
| bereaved | x/ | Adjective | 
| besides | x/ | Adverb | 
| best | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| beyond | x/ | Adverb, Noun | 
| bigger | /x | Verb, Noun | 
| biota | x/x | Noun | 
| bloodless | /x | Adjective | 
| body | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| boring | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| breathe | / | Verb | 
| breathless | /x | Adjective | 
| brides | / | Noun | 
| bright | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| broader | /x | Adjective | 
| broken | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| brothers | /x | Noun | 
| bummer | /x | Noun | 
| buried | /x | Adjective | 
| busted | /x | Adjective | 
| but | / | Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| cadaver | x/x | Noun | 
| calcined | /x | Adjective | 
| can | / | Verb, Noun | 
| canary | x/x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| capital | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| captain | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| captives | /x | Verb | 
| carcase | /x | Noun | 
| carcass | /x | Noun | 
| casualties | /xxx | Noun | 
| celebrated | /xxx | Adjective | 
| cemetery | /xxx | Noun | 
| cherished | /x | Adjective | 
| claimed | / | Adjective | 
| clearer | /x | Noun | 
| closer | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| cold | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| commemoration | xxx/x | Noun | 
| comparative | x/xx | Adjective, Name | 
| compare | x/ | Verb, Noun | 
| comparison | x/xx | Noun | 
| compatriots | x/xx | Noun | 
| complete | x/ | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| comrades | /x | Noun | 
| con | / | Noun, Verb | 
| confused | x/ | Adjective | 
| conscious | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| considerable | x/xxx | Adjective, Noun | 
| continued | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| cooked | / | Adjective | 
| corpse | / | Noun, Verb | 
| coupe | / | Noun | 
| crazy | /x | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| creature | /x | Noun | 
| cremation | x/x | Noun | 
| crippled | /x | Adjective | 
| cut | / | Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| damn | / | Adjective, Verb, Adverb, Noun | 
| darker | /x | Noun | 
| deadened | /x | Adjective | 
| deadly | /x | Adjective, Adverb | 
| death | / | Noun | 
| deathless | /x | Adjective | 
| deathly | /x | Adverb, Adjective | 
| decaying | x/x | Noun | 
| deceased | x/ | Adjective, Noun | 
| decedent | x/x | Noun, Adjective | 
| deep | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| defunct | x/ | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| demented | x/x | Adjective | 
| demise | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| departed | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| descend | x/ | Verb, Noun | 
| despite | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| detailed | x/ | Adjective, Noun | 
| die | / | Verb, Noun | 
| different | /xx | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| diseased | x/ | Adjective | 
| distraught | x/ | Adjective | 
| district | /x | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| dixie | /x | Name | 
| do | / | Verb, Noun, Adverb | 
| doctors | /x | Adverb | 
| doomed | / | Adjective | 
| door | / | Noun, Verb | 
| dormant | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| doth | / | Verb, Noun | 
| douglas | /x | Name | 
| down | / | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| downloaded | /xx | Verb | 
| drained | / | Adjective | 
| drown | / | Verb, Noun | 
| duck | / | Noun, Verb | 
| dwelling | /x | Noun | 
| dynamic | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| earlier | /xx | Adverb, Adjective | 
| easier | /xx | Adverb | 
| effervescent | xx/x | Adjective | 
| either | /x | Adverb | 
| elder | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| else | / | Adverb, Adjective, Noun | 
| empty | /x | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| enable | x/x | Verb | 
| encore | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| end | / | Noun, Verb | 
| enhance | x/ | Verb | 
| enlivened | x/x | Adjective | 
| enough | x/ | Adverb, Noun | 
| entails | x/ | Verb | 
| even | /x | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| ever | /x | Adverb, Adjective | 
| ex | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| exceeded | x/x | Verb | 
| except | x/ | Verb | 
| excess | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| executed | /xxx | Adjective | 
| execution | xx/x | Noun | 
| exerting | x/x | Verb | 
| existent | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| existing | x/x | Adjective | 
| expanded | x/x | Adjective | 
| expendable | x/xx | Adjective, Name | 
| extant | /x | Adjective | 
| extinct | x/ | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| extinguished | x/x | Adjective | 
| extra | /x | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| extremely | x/x | Adverb | 
| eyed | / | Adjective | 
| fallen | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| far | / | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| faster | /x | Noun | 
| fatal | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| fatalities | x/xx | Noun | 
| fatally | /xx | Adverb | 
| feeding | /x | Noun | 
| fewer | /x | Adjective | 
| finer | /x | Noun | 
| finished | /x | Adjective | 
| flakes | / | Noun | 
| flat | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| floor | / | Noun, Verb | 
| following | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| foremost | /x | Adverb, Adjective, Noun | 
| forgotten | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| fresh | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| frightened | /x | Adjective | 
| from | / | Adjective | 
| fuller | /x | Name, Verb | 
| funeral | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| furthermore | /xx | Adverb | 
| gallows | /x | Noun | 
| gob | / | Noun, Verb | 
| gone | / | Adjective | 
| goner | /x | Noun | 
| goon | / | Noun, Verb | 
| graham | /x | Name | 
| grave | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| great | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| greed | / | Noun, Verb | 
| greeted | /x | Verb | 
| growing | /x | Noun | 
| happiest | /xx | Adjective | 
| harder | /x | Noun | 
| harsher | /x | Adjective | 
| has | / | Adjective | 
| hast | / | Noun | 
| hath | / | Noun | 
| healthy | /x | Adjective | 
| heated | /x | Adjective | 
| heaven | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| heavier | /xx | Adjective, Adverb | 
| heightened | /x | Adjective | 
| high | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| highly | /x | Adverb | 
| holier | /xx | Adjective | 
| hotter | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| how | / | Adverb, Noun | 
| however | x/x | Adverb | 
| human | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| idle | /x | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| if | / | Noun | 
| immortal | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| improve | x/ | Verb | 
| inactive | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| inanimate | x/xx | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| increase | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| increasingly | x/xx | Adverb | 
| incremental | xx/x | Adjective | 
| inelastic | xx/x | Adjective | 
| inert | x/ | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| inoperative | x/xxx | Adjective | 
| insensitive | x/xx | Adjective | 
| inside | x/ | Adverb, Noun, Adjective | 
| insufficient | xx/x | Adjective | 
| intact | x/ | Adjective | 
| intense | x/ | Adjective | 
| james | / | Name | 
| jesus | /x | Name, Verb | 
| just | / | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| keen | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| kicking | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| kill | / | Verb, Noun | 
| lambda | /x | Noun | 
| larger | /x | Adjective | 
| late | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| left | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| let | / | Verb, Noun | 
| lethal | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| life | / | Noun, Verb | 
| lifeless | /x | Adjective | 
| lifetime | /x | Noun | 
| lighter | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| litter | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| little | /x | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| live | / | Verb, Adjective, Adverb | 
| lively | /x | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| longer | /x | Noun | 
| looking | /x | Verb, Noun | 
| loss | / | Noun, Verb | 
| lost | / | Adjective | 
| lot | / | Noun, Verb | 
| loud | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| lower | /x | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| luckless | /x | Adjective | 
| lucy | /x | Name | 
| mai | / | Name | 
| maimed | / | Adjective, Noun | 
| main | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| maize | / | Noun | 
| major | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| makes | / | Verb | 
| malfunctioning | x/xx | Noun | 
| man | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| many | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| marine | x/ | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| maritime | /xx | Adjective | 
| marking | /x | Noun | 
| martyr | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| matt | / | Name, Adjective | 
| maximum | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| mayor | /x | Noun | 
| me | / | Noun | 
| menzies | /x | Name | 
| mer | / | Noun | 
| meta | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| minus | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| miserable | /xxx | Adjective, Noun | 
| mitt | / | Noun | 
| modern | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| money | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| morbid | /x | Adjective | 
| more than | // | Phrase, Adjective | 
| moreover | x/x | Adverb | 
| morgue | / | Noun | 
| morrow | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| mort | / | Noun | 
| mortal | /x | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| mortalities | x/xx | Noun | 
| mortally | /xx | Adverb | 
| mortuary | /xxx | Noun, Adjective | 
| multiple | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| murdered | /x | Adjective | 
| nearly | /x | Adverb | 
| need | / | Verb, Noun | 
| neighborhood | /xx | Noun | 
| neither | /x | Adverb | 
| new | / | Adjective, Name, Adverb, Verb | 
| nicer | /x | Noun | 
| nonconscious | x/x | Adjective | 
| noncurrent | x/x | Adjective | 
| none | / | Noun, Adverb | 
| nonfunctional | x/xx | Adjective | 
| nonliving | x/x | Adjective | 
| not | / | Adverb, Noun | 
| nothing | /x | Noun, Adverb, Adjective | 
| now | / | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| numb | / | Adjective, Verb | 
| number | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| numerous | /xx | Adjective | 
| o | x | Noun, Adjective | 
| obtain | x/ | Verb | 
| ocean | /x | Noun | 
| offshore | // | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| older | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| once | / | Adverb, Noun | 
| ones | / | Noun | 
| only | /x | Adverb, Adjective, Noun | 
| open | /x | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| or | / | Noun, Adjective, Adverb | 
| other | /x | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| out | / | Adverb, Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| out of play | /// | Phrase | 
| outside | // | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| own | / | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| parched | / | Adjective | 
| passed | / | Adjective | 
| penalty | /xx | Noun | 
| people | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| perceive | x/ | Verb | 
| perennial | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| perfectly | /xx | Adverb | 
| perished | /x | Verb | 
| persons | /x | Noun | 
| pieces | /x | Noun | 
| pilgrim | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| pitch | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| più | / | |
| plenty | /x | Noun, Adverb, Adjective | 
| plus | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| political | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| postmortem | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| precise | x/ | Adjective, Verb | 
| prisoner | /xx | Noun | 
| profound | x/ | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| prudence | /x | Noun | 
| punishment | /xx | Noun | 
| quarter | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| queer | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb | 
| quenched | / | Adjective | 
| raise | / | Verb, Noun | 
| rank | / | Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb | 
| rather | /x | Adverb, Verb, Adjective, Noun | 
| reaper | /x | Noun | 
| relative | /xx | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| remaining | x/x | Noun, Adjective | 
| report | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| repose | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| resident | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| residing | x/x | Verb | 
| rest | / | Noun, Verb | 
| resurgence | x/x | Noun | 
| revitalization | xxxx/x | Noun | 
| revival | x/x | Noun | 
| revive | x/ | Verb | 
| sad | / | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| safe | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| saints | / | Noun | 
| scant | / | Adjective, Verb, Noun, Adverb | 
| screwed | / | Adjective | 
| sea | / | Noun | 
| seafood | /x | Noun | 
| seagoing | /xx | Adjective | 
| seaward | /x | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| seconds | /x | Noun | 
| selfsame | // | Noun, Adjective | 
| sensitive | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| sentries | /x | Noun | 
| serve | / | Verb, Noun | 
| several | /x | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| shakespeare | /x | Name | 
| shall | / | Verb | 
| sharp | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| shoot | / | Verb, Noun | 
| short | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| sick | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| silence | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| single | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| sir | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| skin | / | Noun, Verb | 
| slain | / | Noun | 
| smaller | /x | Noun | 
| snitch | / | Noun, Verb | 
| softer | /x | Adjective | 
| soldier | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| something | /x | Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb | 
| sooner | /x | Adverb, Noun | 
| sorrowful | /xx | Adjective | 
| soul | / | Noun, Verb | 
| spirited | /xx | Adjective | 
| sprightly | /x | Adjective, Adverb | 
| stagnant | /x | Adjective | 
| stalemate | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| standing | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| standstill | /x | Noun | 
| starved | / | Adjective | 
| stead | / | Noun, Verb | 
| steeper | /x | Noun | 
| stiff | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb | 
| still | / | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| stillborn | // | Adjective, Noun | 
| strengthen | /x | Verb | 
| stricken | /x | Adjective | 
| stricter | /x | Adjective | 
| strong | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| subsist | x/ | Verb | 
| suddenly | /xx | Adverb | 
| sufficient | x/x | Adjective | 
| suite | / | Noun | 
| sum | / | Noun, Verb | 
| supplemental | xx/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| supplementary | xx/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| sure | / | Adjective, Adverb | 
| survival | x/x | Noun | 
| survive | x/ | Verb | 
| survivors | x/x | Verb | 
| take | / | Verb, Noun | 
| taller | /x | Noun | 
| tan | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| that | / | Adverb, Noun | 
| the | x | Adverb, Noun | 
| then | / | Adverb, Adjective, Noun | 
| thicker | /x | Adjective, Adverb | 
| things | / | Noun | 
| think | / | Verb, Noun | 
| this | / | Adverb, Noun | 
| those | / | |
| though | / | Adverb | 
| three | / | Noun | 
| tighter | /x | Noun | 
| timid | /x | Adjective | 
| tired | /x | Adjective | 
| to a greater extent | /x/xx/ | Phrase, Adverb | 
| to a lesser extent | /x/xx/ | Phrase, Adverb | 
| today | x/ | Noun, Adverb, Adjective | 
| toll | / | Noun, Verb | 
| tomorrow | x/x | Noun, Adverb | 
| too | / | Adverb | 
| top | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb, Adverb | 
| tormented | /xx | Adjective | 
| tot | / | Noun, Verb | 
| totaled | /x | Adjective | 
| tougher | /x | Adjective | 
| trashed | / | Adjective | 
| truckload | /x | Noun | 
| truer | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| two | / | Noun | 
| uncharged | x/ | Adjective | 
| undead | xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| under | /x | Adverb, Adjective, Noun | 
| underworld | /xx | Noun | 
| unharmed | x/ | Adjective | 
| unheeded | x/x | Adjective | 
| unless | x/ | Adjective | 
| unlike | x/ | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| unload | x/ | Verb | 
| unprofitable | x/xxx | Adjective | 
| unusual | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| upper | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| upwards | /x | Adverb | 
| utmost | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| utter | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| various | /xx | Adjective | 
| vast | / | Adjective, Noun | 
| vehement | /xx | Adjective | 
| versus | /x | Adjective | 
| very | /x | Adverb, Adjective | 
| viable | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| vibrant | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| victim | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| vie | / | Noun, Verb | 
| vigorous | /xx | Adjective | 
| vital | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| viva | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| vivid | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| vivo | /x | Noun | 
| wake | / | Verb, Noun | 
| warm | / | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| wed | / | Verb, Name | 
| what | / | Adverb, Noun | 
| when | / | Adverb, Noun | 
| whereas | x/ | Adverb, Noun | 
| while | / | Noun, Verb | 
| whom | / | Verb | 
| wider | /x | Adjective | 
| with | / | Adverb, Noun | 
| without | x/ | Adverb | 
| witted | /x | Adjective | 
| wonderful | /xx | Adjective, Adverb | 
| worried | /x | Adjective | 
| worse | / | Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| worthier | /xx | Adjective | 
| yet | / | Adverb, Verb, Noun | 
| young | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
