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the smallest amount or part imaginable

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Synonyms of syllable

beans, bubkes (also bupkes), continental, damn, darn (also durn), diddly [slang], diddly-squat [slang], doodley-squat (or doodly-squat), fig, ghost, hoot, iota, jot, lick, modicum, rap, squat [slang], tittle, whit, whoop

Words Related to syllable

ace, bit, crumb, dab, driblet, glimmer, hint, little, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, pin, ray, scrap, scruple, semblance, shade, shadow, shred, skosh, smidgen (also smidgeon), snap, speck, spot, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, touch, trace

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