Stressed syllable statistics (4)

Syllable Number Of Words Percentage
1st20,74055'95%
2nd10,67228'79%
3rd4,11111'09%
4th1,1443'09%

Note: these words have been obtained from Wiktionary and have been classified and improved through automated computer linguistics processes.

Comments (2)

  • #1 very nice and easy to find the answer
    Written by: Dancel Tanghian on 09/10/2020
  • #2 There are plenty of words where the stress is on either or then 'neutralised':
    limit - visit - transport - rewrite - withhold - etc.

    I would word 3rd = penultimate
    4th = final (there are words with more than 4 syllables, in any event)
    Written by: alexander st.john on 22/06/2022

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