Synonyms of the word

penult

• n. The next-to-last syllable of a word.
• n. The next to the last in a series.

penultima

• n. last syllable but one.

penultimate

• adj. (Britain, in US usually formal, literary or scholarly) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding…
• adj. (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult.
• adj. (mathematics, rare) Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily…
• n. (uncommon) A penult, a next-to-last thing, particularly.

syllable

• n. (linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables…
• n. The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
• n. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
• v. (transitive, poetic) To utter in syllables.