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WordSyllablesCategories
accidental
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
account
x/
Noun, Verb
affiliation
xxx/x
Noun
ago
x/
Adverb, Adjective, Noun
alien
/xx
Adjective, Noun, Verb
ambiguous
x/xx
Adjective
anasazi
xx/x
Name
ancestry
/xx
Noun
anonymous
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
asset
/x
Noun
assignable
x/xx
Adjective
attachment
x/x
Noun
author
/x
Noun, Verb
authorship
/xx
Noun
aware
x/
Adjective, Verb
background
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
barren
/x
Adjective, Noun
basis
/x
Noun
beginning
x/x
Noun, Adjective
behind
x/
Adverb, Adjective, Noun
belonging
x/x
Noun
bicultural
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
birth
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
birthplace
/x
Noun
bisexual
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
blanks
/
Noun
blood
/
Noun, Verb
bloodline
/x
Noun
born
/
Verb, Adjective, Noun
breed
/
Noun, Verb
brought
/
Verb
bushman
/x
Noun
came
/
Noun
cause
/
Noun, Verb
certain
/x
Adjective, Noun
characterised
xxxx
Verb
cheese
/
Noun, Verb
chosen
/x
Adjective, Noun
chroniclers
/xx
Noun
citation
x/x
Noun
civilisation
x/x/x
Noun
con
/
Noun, Verb
conquest
/x
Noun, Verb
consignment
x/x
Noun
contributed
x/xx
Verb
counterbalancing
/xxxx
Noun
counterpart
/xx
Noun, Verb
cradle
/x
Noun, Verb
create
x/
Verb, Adjective
creation
x/x
Noun
culture
/x
Noun, Verb
custom
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
dance
/
Noun, Verb
dark
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
departure
x/x
Noun
derivation
xx/x
Noun
descent
x/
Noun
determinable
x/xxx
Adjective, Noun
dialect
/xx
Noun
different
/xx
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
difficult
/xx
Adjective, Verb
dishonorable
x/xxx
Adjective
doe
/
Noun, Adverb, Verb
doubtful
/x
Adjective, Noun
drawback
/x
Noun
dream
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
driving
/x
Noun, Adjective
eclipse
x/
Noun, Verb
encountering
x/xx
Noun, Adjective
eskimo
/xx
Name, Adjective
established
x/x
Adjective
ethnic
/x
Adjective, Noun
ethnicity
x/xx
Noun
ethnology
x/xx
Noun
etiology
xx/xx
Noun
evaluated
x/xxx
Verb
evolution
xx/x
Noun
extraction
x/x
Noun
faceless
/x
Adjective
familiar
x/x
Adjective, Noun
family
/xx
Noun, Adjective
famous
/x
Adjective, Verb
fear
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
filiation
xx/x
Noun
flaw
/
Noun, Verb
folk
/
Noun, Adjective
foreign
/x
Adjective, Name
foreigner
/xx
Noun
foundation
x/x
Noun
founding
/x
Noun, Adjective
fountainhead
/xx
Noun
from
/
Noun
generate
/xx
Verb
generator
/xxx
Noun
genesis
/xx
Noun
gentleman
/xx
Noun
gunmen
/x
Noun
head
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
headwaters
/xx
Noun
heart
/
Noun, Verb
heritage
/xx
Noun
historical
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
history
/xx
Noun, Verb
home
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb
homeland
/x
Noun
hometown
/x
Noun
ignorant
/xx
Adjective, Noun
ignores
x/
Verb
immigration
xx/x
Noun
immunocompetent
xxx/xx
Adjective
impetus
/xx
Noun
impossible
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
inception
x/x
Noun
indefinite
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
indeterminate
xx/xx
Adjective, Noun
indigenous
x/xx
Adjective
induced
x/
Adjective
infamous
/xx
Adjective
inglorious
x/xx
Adjective
initial
x/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
initiated
x/xxx
Verb
innovator
/xxx
Noun
insignificant
xx/xx
Adjective
instigator
/xxx
Noun
intercept
xx/
Noun, Verb
invisible
x/xx
Adjective, Verb, Noun
issuer
/xx
Noun
kinsfolk
/x
Noun
known
/
Adjective, Noun
lacuna
x/x
Noun
lead
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
legacy
/xx
Noun, Adjective
legend
/x
Noun, Verb
lesson
/x
Noun, Verb
lie
/
Verb, Noun
line
/
Noun, Verb
lineage
/xx
Noun
literatures
/xxx
Noun
lost
/
Adjective
man
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
masked
/
Adjective
membership
/xx
Noun, Verb
motivating
/xxx
Adjective
mysterious
x/xx
Adjective
mystery
/xx
Noun
nameless
/x
Adjective, Noun
natal
/x
Name, Adjective
nationality
xx/xx
Noun
native
/x
Adjective, Noun
nature
/x
Noun, Verb
nobody
/xx
Noun
not
/
Adverb, Noun
nothing
/x
Noun, Adverb, Adjective
obscure
x/
Adjective, Verb
one
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
only
/x
Adverb, Adjective, Noun
origen
/xx
Name
original
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
originally
x/xxx
Adverb
origination
xxx/x
Noun
origins
/xx
Noun
out
/
Adverb, Noun, Verb, Adjective
outset
/x
Noun, Verb
outsider
x/x
Noun
overture
/xx
Noun, Verb, Adjective
own
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
parent
/x
Noun, Verb
parentage
/xx
Noun
pedigree
/xx
Noun, Adjective, Verb
pitfall
/x
Noun
place of origin
///xx
Phrase, Noun
postclassic
//x
Adjective
predicate
/xx
Noun, Adjective, Verb
preliminary
x/xxx
Adjective, Noun
prelude
/x
Noun, Verb
principal
/xx
Adjective, Noun
produced
x/
Verb
prompted
/x
Verb
prototypes
/xx
Verb
provenance
/xx
Noun, Verb
question
/x
Noun, Verb
race
/
Noun, Verb
reason
/x
Noun, Verb
releasing
x/x
Noun
reliant
x/x
Adjective
responsible
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
result
x/
Noun, Verb
rise
/
Noun, Verb
root
/
Noun, Verb
same
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
say
/
Verb, Noun, Adverb
scary
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
secret
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
selected
x/x
Adjective
sending
/x
Noun
sept
/
Name
sheikh
/
Noun
side
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb, Adverb
singularly
/xxx
Adverb
soldier
/x
Noun, Verb
something
/x
Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb
source
/
Noun, Verb
space
/
Noun, Verb
spring
/
Noun, Verb
start
/
Verb, Noun, Adverb
stem
/
Noun, Verb
stock
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
strain
/
Noun, Verb
strange
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
subject
x/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
terra incognita
/x/x/x
Phrase, Noun
traceability
/x/xx
Noun
transcendent
x/x
Adjective, Noun
triggered
/x
Adjective
unaccounted
xx/x
Adjective
unaware
xx/
Adjective
unbeknown
xx/
Adjective
unbeknownst
xx/
Adverb
uncertain
x/x
Adjective, Noun
uncertainty
x/xx
Noun
uncharted
x/x
Adjective
unclear
x/
Adjective, Verb
undefined
xx/
Adjective
underlay
/xx
Verb, Noun
undetermined
xx/x
Adjective
undiagnosed
x/xx
Adjective
undisclosed
xx/
Adjective
undiscovered
xx/x
Adjective
unexplained
xx/
Adjective
unexplored
xx/
Adjective
unfamiliar
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
unforeseeable
xx/xx
Adjective
unforeseen
xx/
Adjective, Noun
unheard
x/
Adjective
unidentified
xx/xx
Adjective
unimagined
xx/x
Adjective
unknowable
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
unknown quantity
x//xx
Phrase, Noun
unknowns
x/
Noun
unlimited
x/xx
Adjective
unnamed
x/
Adjective
unpopular
x/xx
Adjective
unprecedented
x/xxx
Adjective
unpredictable
xx/xx
Adjective, Noun
unrecognized
x/xx
Adjective
unseen
x/
Adjective, Noun
unsettled
x/x
Adjective
unspecified
x/xx
Adjective
unsung
x/
Adjective
unsure
x/
Adjective
unsuspected
xx/x
Adjective
untold
x/
Adjective
vague
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
variable
/xxx
Adjective, Noun
void
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
weird
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
wellhead
/x
Noun
wellspring
/x
Noun
wild
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
wilderness
/xx
Noun