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| Word | Syllables | Categories | 
|---|---|---|
| able | /x  | Adjective, Verb, Noun  | 
| above | x/  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun  | 
| absence | /x  | Noun  | 
| absent | /x  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| absolutely | xx/x  | Adverb  | 
| abundant | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| acceptances | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| accepted | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| ache | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| acquaintance | x/x  | Noun  | 
| actually | /xxx  | Adverb  | 
| addition | x/x  | Noun  | 
| advance | x/  | Noun, Verb, Adjective  | 
| after | /x  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun  | 
| afterwards | /xx  | Adverb  | 
| again | x/  | Adverb  | 
| against | x/  | Adverb  | 
| ahead | x/  | Adverb  | 
| allow | x/  | Verb  | 
| alone | x/  | Adverb, Adjective  | 
| along | x/  | Adverb  | 
| already | x/x  | Adverb  | 
| alt | /  | Noun, Adjective  | 
| always | /x  | Adverb  | 
| ancient | /x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| and | x  | Noun, Verb, Adjective  | 
| anna | /x  | Name  | 
| anything | /xx  | Noun, Adverb  | 
| atypical | x/xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| avoid | x/  | Verb  | 
| away | x/  | Adverb, Adjective, Verb  | 
| awhile | x/  | Adverb  | 
| back | /  | Adverb, Noun, Adjective, Verb  | 
| backward | /x  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun  | 
| bad | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| badly | /x  | Adverb, Adjective  | 
| barely | /x  | Adverb  | 
| battalion | x/x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| before | x/  | Adverb  | 
| beforehand | x/x  | Adverb, Adjective  | 
| behind | x/  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun  | 
| better | /x  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| beyond | x/  | Adverb, Noun  | 
| big | /  | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb  | 
| bit | /  | Noun, Verb, Adjective  | 
| bonfires | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| bonnie | /x  | Name, Adjective  | 
| borne | /  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| brief | /  | Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb  | 
| brigade | x/  | Noun, Verb  | 
| broad | /  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| but | /  | Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| buyer | /x  | Noun  | 
| bygone | /x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| carry | /x  | Verb, Noun  | 
| catacombs | /xx  | Noun  | 
| certainly | /xx  | Adverb  | 
| chief | /  | Noun, Adjective, Verb  | 
| choice | /  | Noun, Adjective  | 
| chorus | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| chronic | /x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| clocked | /  | Adjective  | 
| combinational | xx/xx  | Adjective  | 
| come | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| completely | x/x  | Adverb  | 
| comprehensive | xx/x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| con | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| condition | x/x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| considerable | x/xxx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| consistently | x/xx  | Adverb  | 
| consuming | x/x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| contracts | /x  | Noun  | 
| courses | /x  | Noun  | 
| crave | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| cumbersome | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| currently | /xx  | Adverb  | 
| dace | /  | Noun  | 
| denying | x/x  | Noun  | 
| detailed | x/  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| die | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| difficult | /xx  | Adjective, Verb  | 
| director | x/x  | Noun  | 
| distances | /xx  | Noun  | 
| distant | /x  | Adjective  | 
| distress | x/  | Noun, Verb  | 
| diviner | x/x  | Noun  | 
| divisible | x/xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| does | /  | Noun  | 
| don | /  | Name, Verb  | 
| down | /  | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun  | 
| downstream | //  | Adverb, Adjective, Verb  | 
| dragon | /x  | Noun  | 
| dreadful | /x  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun  | 
| durable | /xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| duration | //x  | Noun  | 
| during | /x  | Noun  | 
| earlier | /xx  | Adverb, Adjective  | 
| either | /x  | Adverb  | 
| elongate | x/x  | Verb, Adjective  | 
| else | /  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun  | 
| endless | /x  | Adjective  | 
| enduring | x/x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| enjoyable | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| enormous | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| enough | x/  | Adverb, Noun  | 
| entire | x/x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| epistles | x/x  | Noun  | 
| eternal | x/x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| even | /x  | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun  | 
| eventful | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| eventual | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| eventually | x/xxx  | Adverb  | 
| ever | /x  | Adverb, Adjective  | 
| ex | /  | Noun, Verb, Adjective  | 
| except | x/  | Verb  | 
| excluded | x/x  | Verb  | 
| extendable | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| extensive | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| extent | x/  | Noun, Adjective  | 
| extremely | x/x  | Adverb  | 
| fail | /  | Verb, Noun, Adjective  | 
| failure | /x  | Noun  | 
| fake | /  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| false | /  | Adjective, Verb, Adverb, Noun  | 
| far | /  | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun  | 
| farsighted | //x  | Adjective  | 
| fast | /  | Adverb, Noun, Adjective, Verb  | 
| fateful | /x  | Adjective  | 
| feature | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| few | /  | Noun  | 
| fine | /  | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb  | 
| first | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| flop | /  | Noun, Verb, Adverb  | 
| footsteps | /x  | Noun  | 
| for | /  | Noun  | 
| forbidden | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| forever | x/x  | Adverb, Noun, Adjective  | 
| forget | x/  | Verb, Noun  | 
| former | /x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| formerly | /xx  | Adverb  | 
| free | /  | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb  | 
| fritz | /  | Name, Verb  | 
| from | /  | Verb  | 
| front | /  | Noun, Adjective, Verb  | 
| frontier | x/  | Noun, Verb  | 
| full | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| go | /  | Verb, Noun, Adjective  | 
| god | /  | Name, Verb  | 
| gonna | /x  | Verb  | 
| goodbye | x/  | Noun, Verb  | 
| governor | /xx  | Noun  | 
| grand | /  | Noun, Adjective  | 
| great | /  | Adjective, Noun, Adverb  | 
| greatly | /x  | Adverb  | 
| groomed | /  | Adjective  | 
| gruelling | /x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| hair | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| happier | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| hard | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| hardly | /x  | Adverb  | 
| harrowing | /xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| head | /  | Noun, Adjective, Verb  | 
| heavy | /x  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| heretofore | xx/  | Adverb  | 
| high | /  | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb  | 
| highly | /x  | Adverb  | 
| historically | x/xxx  | Adverb  | 
| history | /xx  | Noun, Verb  | 
| homilies | /xx  | Noun  | 
| hot dogs | //  | Phrase  | 
| how | /  | Adverb, Noun  | 
| however | x/x  | Adverb  | 
| huge | /  | Adjective  | 
| huh | /  | Noun  | 
| ill | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| immaterial | xx/xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| impossible | x/xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| inappropriate | xx/xx  | Adjective  | 
| incorporeal | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| indivisible | xx/xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| informal | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| instead | x/  | Adverb  | 
| insufficiently | xx/xx  | Adverb  | 
| integer | /xx  | Noun  | 
| interminable | x/xxx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| is | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| it | /  | Noun, Adjective  | 
| johns | /  | Name  | 
| jump | /  | Verb, Noun, Adverb, Adjective  | 
| just | /  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| keep | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| kindergartens | /xxx  | Noun  | 
| lack | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| lang | /  | Noun, Adjective  | 
| lange | /  | Name  | 
| langer | /x  | Name  | 
| languish | /x  | Verb  | 
| lank | /  | Noun, Adjective, Verb  | 
| large | /  | Adjective, Noun, Adverb  | 
| largo | /x  | Name, Adjective  | 
| last | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun  | 
| late | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun  | 
| leap | /  | Noun, Verb, Adjective  | 
| leases | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| least | /  | Adverb, Noun  | 
| legs | /  | Noun  | 
| length | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| lengthened | /x  | Adjective  | 
| lengthy | /x  | Adjective  | 
| let | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| life | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| lifelong | //  | Adjective  | 
| lingering | /xx  | Noun  | 
| logic | /x  | Noun, Adjective, Verb  | 
| longed | /  | Verb  | 
| longevity | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| longish | /x  | Adjective  | 
| longitude | /xx  | Noun  | 
| longitudinal | xx/xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| longtime | /x  | Adjective, Adverb  | 
| longue | /  | Noun  | 
| loon | /  | Noun  | 
| lot | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| lung | /  | Noun  | 
| major | /x  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| makes | /  | Verb  | 
| many | /x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| maxims | /x  | Noun  | 
| maximum | /xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| mayor | /x  | Noun  | 
| measure | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| measurement | /xx  | Noun  | 
| medium | /xx  | Noun, Adjective, Adverb  | 
| memorable | /xxx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| merely | /x  | Adverb  | 
| minister | /xx  | Noun, Verb  | 
| missing | /x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| moment | /x  | Noun  | 
| mucho | /x  | Adjective, Adverb  | 
| must | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| mysterious | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| nah | /  | Name  | 
| napoleon | x/xx  | Name  | 
| narrow | /x  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| nav | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| naw | /  | Verb  | 
| nay | /  | Name, Adverb, Verb, Adjective  | 
| near | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun  | 
| negative | /xx  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| neither | /x  | Adverb  | 
| never | /x  | Adverb  | 
| next | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun  | 
| nicht | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| nightmarish | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| nines | /  | Noun  | 
| no | /  | Noun, Adverb, Adjective  | 
| nobody | /xx  | Noun  | 
| none | /  | Noun, Adverb  | 
| noo | /  | Adverb, Adjective  | 
| nope | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| nor | /  | Noun  | 
| nota | /x  | Noun  | 
| nothing | /x  | Noun, Adverb, Adjective  | 
| noting | /x  | Noun  | 
| now | /  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| nowhere | /x  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun  | 
| number | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| oblong | /x  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| off | /  | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun  | 
| often | /x  | Adverb, Adjective  | 
| okay | x/  | Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb  | 
| old | /  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| omitted | x/x  | Verb  | 
| ones | /  | Noun  | 
| ongoing | /xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| only | /x  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun  | 
| opposed | x/  | Adjective  | 
| or | /  | Noun, Adjective, Adverb  | 
| otherwise | /xx  | Adverb, Adjective  | 
| outside | //  | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb  | 
| over | /x  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| overnight | /x/  | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun  | 
| overwhelming | xx/x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| paces | /x  | Noun  | 
| pas | /  | Noun  | 
| past | /  | Noun, Adjective, Adverb  | 
| pending | /x  | Adjective  | 
| perennial | x/xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| perhaps | x/  | Adverb, Noun  | 
| period | /xx  | Noun, Adjective, Verb  | 
| permanent | /xx  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| persistent | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| pine | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| plight | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| plus | /  | Noun, Adjective, Verb  | 
| pointed | /x  | Adjective  | 
| poorly | /x  | Adverb, Adjective  | 
| pretty | /x  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| prevent | x/  | Verb  | 
| previous | /xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| prior | /x  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun  | 
| prohibited | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| prolonged | x/  | Adjective  | 
| protracted | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| provided | x/x  | Verb  | 
| provident | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| psyche | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| purchaser | /xx  | Noun  | 
| put | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| quick | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| quite | /  | Adverb, Noun  | 
| rarely | /x  | Adverb  | 
| rather | /x  | Adverb, Verb, Adjective, Noun  | 
| re | /  | Noun  | 
| really | /x  | Adverb, Verb  | 
| rearward | /x  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun  | 
| recently | /xx  | Adverb  | 
| refrain | x/  | Verb, Noun  | 
| refusal | x/x  | Noun  | 
| refused | x/  | Noun  | 
| remember | x/x  | Verb  | 
| remote | x/  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| resuscitate | x/xx  | Verb, Adjective  | 
| retentive | x/x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| revolvers | x/x  | Noun  | 
| rich | /  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| right | /  | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb  | 
| rockers | /x  | Verb  | 
| round | /  | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb  | 
| run | /  | Verb, Noun, Adjective  | 
| sans | /  | Adjective  | 
| sap | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| scarcely | /x  | Adverb  | 
| seldom | /x  | Adverb, Adjective  | 
| seniority | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| serve | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| short | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| shortened | /x  | Adjective  | 
| shortly | /x  | Adverb  | 
| significant | x/xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| significantly | x/xxx  | Adverb  | 
| simply | /x  | Adverb  | 
| since | /  | Adverb  | 
| skinny | /x  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| slender | /x  | Adjective  | 
| sloops | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| slow | /  | Adjective, Verb, Noun, Adverb  | 
| slowly | /x  | Adverb  | 
| so | /  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun  | 
| some | /  | Adverb  | 
| soon | /  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun  | 
| specials | /x  | Noun  | 
| stanzas | /x  | Noun  | 
| status | /x  | Noun  | 
| stay | /  | Verb, Noun, Adjective, Adverb  | 
| step | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| still | /  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| stop | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| stressed | /  | Adjective  | 
| stretch | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| strong | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun  | 
| subsequently | /xxx  | Adverb  | 
| substantial | x/x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| suites | /  | Noun  | 
| sure | /  | Adjective, Adverb  | 
| surely | /x  | Adverb  | 
| sustainable | x/xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| sustained | x/  | Adjective  | 
| symphonies | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| tall | /  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| tedious | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| tempestuous | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| temps | /  | Noun  | 
| tenacious | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| term | /  | Noun, Adjective, Verb  | 
| terrible | /xx  | Adjective, Adverb  | 
| than | /  | Adverb, Noun  | 
| theirs | /  | Adjective  | 
| then | /  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun  | 
| there | /  | Adverb, Noun  | 
| therefore | /x  | Adverb  | 
| thin | /  | Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb  | 
| through | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun  | 
| time | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| timely | /x  | Adjective, Adverb  | 
| to | /  | Adverb, Noun  | 
| too | /  | Adverb  | 
| totally | /xx  | Adverb  | 
| traditionally | x/xxx  | Adverb  | 
| tree | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| true | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| ultimately | /xxx  | Adverb  | 
| unable | x/x  | Adjective, Verb  | 
| uneventful | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| unforgettable | xx/xx  | Adjective  | 
| unhappy | x/x  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| unintended | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| uninterrupted | xxx/x  | Adjective  | 
| unmodified | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| unpaid | x/  | Adjective  | 
| unplanned | x/  | Adjective  | 
| unsound | x/  | Adjective  | 
| unsuccessful | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| until | x/  | |
| untrue | x/  | Adjective  | 
| unwanted | x/x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| vast | /  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| ventral | /x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| verses | /x  | Noun  | 
| very | /x  | Adverb, Adjective  | 
| voluminous | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| wait | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| wave | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| way | /  | Noun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective  | 
| wearisome | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| weather | /x  | Noun, Adjective, Verb  | 
| weep | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| whatever | x/x  | Adverb, Adjective, Noun  | 
| when | /  | Adverb, Noun  | 
| while | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| whole | /  | Adjective, Noun, Adverb  | 
| why | /  | Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| wicket | /x  | Noun  | 
| wide | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun  | 
| widely | /x  | Adverb  | 
| without | x/  | Adverb  | 
| wonderful | /xx  | Adjective, Adverb  | 
| wooden | /x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| wrong | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb  | 
| yeah | /  | Noun  | 
| yearlong | //  | Adjective, Adverb  | 
| yearn | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| years | /  | Noun  | 
| yen | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| yes | /  | Name, Verb  | 
| yet | /  | Adverb, Verb, Noun  | 
