A syllable that is stressed in pronunciation is called an accented syllable and a vowel or syllable that is pronounced with little or no stress is called an unaccented syllable. For instance, the word “candle” has two syllables, the first being accented (spoken louder than the second) and the second being unaccented (spoken softer than the first).
Accented Syllables Words List
| announcer | actor | beggar | afterward |
| banker | anchor | burglar | awkward |
| barber | assessor | calendar | backward |
| catcher | author | cedar | blizzard |
| chapter | calculator | cellar | buzzard |
| character | color | circular | coward |
| destroyer | contractor | collar | custard |
| farmer | creditor | dollar | forward |
| father | director | grammar | haggard |
| filter | doctor | liar | hazard |
| fluster | editor | muscular | homeward |
| golfer | educator | nectar | inward |
| hammer | elevator | particular | leopard |
| Jennifer | error | perpendicular | lizard |
| lumber | favor | pillar | mustard |
| member | flavor | popular | onward |
| murder | honor | regular | orchard |
| offer | humor | scholar | Richard |
| plaster | illustrator | similar | standard |
| power | inspector | singular | steward |
| printer | instructor | solar | toward |
| rather | inventor | sugar | tractor |
| remember | investigator | vinegar | translator |
| sister | janitor | vulgar | upward |
| shutter | labor | professor | valor |
| summer | major | radiator | vapor |
| teacher | minor | refrigerator | visitor |
| temper | motor | senator | welder |
| wander | operator | writer | yonder |
After exploring accented words let’s explore unaccented words list and see how they are different.
Examples of Unaccented Syllable Words
| accident | ability | chemical | American |
| altitude | activity | clerical | intelligent |
| animal | authority | comical | intimate |
| article | capability | critical | magnificent |
| artifact | capacity | economical | medicine |
| Baltimore | captivity | electrical | meditate |
| candidate | cavity | fanatical | monitor |
| capital | clarity | grammatical | notify |
| captivate | dignity | historical | officer |
| cardigan | electricity | identical | optimist |
| carnival | entity | logical | original |
| centipede | festivity | mechanical | participate |
| certificate | finality | magical | politics |
| citizen | humanity | musical | predicate |
| comparison | humidity | nautical | president |
| compliment | intensity | physical | principal |
| continent | majority | political | principle |
| criminal | necessarily | practical | ridicule |
| detriment | necessity | radical | security |
| difficult | objectivity | statistical | sensitive |
| estimate | personality | surgical | significant |
| facilitate | popularity | technical | similar |
| Florida | possibility | typical | sincerity |
| gratitude | publicity | universe | stupidity |
| helicopter | purity | vertical | subsidy |
| hesitate | quality | vanity | substitute |
| impediment | quantity | venison | unity |
| inhabitant | rapidity | varsity | uniform |
| institute | reality | vertigo | university |
Keep exploring EnglishBix to learn more about stressed and unstressed syllables in phonics.