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The word stressed has only one syllable. If you wanted to use the word in a poem you could take poetic license and pronounce it with two syllables as stress-ed.
Oh, dude, the stressed syllable in "hospitality" is the third one - "hos-PI-tal-i-ty." It's like when you're trying to impress someone with your fancy vocabulary, you gotta make sure you hit that "PI" hard. So, yeah, stress it like you're stressing about what to wear on a first date.
That would be three stressed syllables, a molossus.
In an English dictionary, when a phonetic form of the word is given, the written accent is placed immediately after the stressed syllable. This is the best principle to apply in other circumstances.
The term for a metrical foot with one stressed and one unstressed syllable is an iamb. Each pair of syllables in the word "again" is an example of an iamb: a-GAIN.
I do not know of a specific name for a word's stressed syllable. However, sometimes people use the phrase "accented syllable" instead of "stressed syllable."
Iambic. An iamb, or iambus, consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. A trochee consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one. Take your pick!
trochee
Belief is stressed on the second syllable.
Competition is stressed on the third syllable.
trochee
In the words themselves, you don't. In Latin pronunciation keys, you use apostrophes (sort of) before the syllable. In the most stressed syllable, you use one above, in a less-stressed syllable, you use one lower like a comma.E.g. "pronunciation": prǝ,nǝnsē'ā sh ǝn
The word stressed has only one syllable. If you wanted to use the word in a poem you could take poetic license and pronounce it with two syllables as stress-ed.
trochee
The term is "iamb." It is a metrical foot in poetry consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable, such as in the word "begin."
Oh, dude, the stressed syllable in "hospitality" is the third one - "hos-PI-tal-i-ty." It's like when you're trying to impress someone with your fancy vocabulary, you gotta make sure you hit that "PI" hard. So, yeah, stress it like you're stressing about what to wear on a first date.
That would be three stressed syllables, a molossus.