Stress on the first syllable
Many nouns and adjectives have stress on the first syllable: TA-ble, HAP-py and MON-key have two syllables; BEAU-ti-ful has three.
2 syllables 200
- also al-so
- other oth-er
- only on-ly
- after af-ter
- into in-to
- over o-ver
- any an-y
- very ver-y
- even e-ven
- really real-ly
- being be-ing
- going go-ing
- many man-y
- never nev-er
- something some-thing
- every ev-ery
- always al-ways
- better bet-ter
- little lit-tle
- under un-der
- during dur-ing
- ever ev-er
- money mon-ey
- second sec-ond
- someone some-one
- number num-ber
- city cit-y
- doing do-ing
- getting get-ting
- public pub-lic
- business busi-ness
- system sys-tem
- nothing noth-ing
- person per-son
- making mak-ing
- music mu-sic
- power pow-er
- water wa-ter
- later lat-er
- order or-der
- party par-ty
- service ser-vice
- country coun-try
- open o-pen
- season sea-son
- trying try-ing
- maybe may-be
- story sto-ry
- able a-ble
- early ear-ly
- local lo-cal
- social so-cial
- given giv-en
- level lev-el
- often of-ten
- single sin-gle
- body bod-y
- coming com-ing
- office of-fice
- problem prob-lem
- almost al-most
- taking tak-ing
- matter mat-ter
- pretty pret-ty
- saying say-ing
- wanted want-ed
- happy hap-py
- human hu-man
- question ques-tion
- series se-ries
- woman wom-an
- data da-ta
- special spe-cial
- either ei-ther
- future fu-ture
- million mil-lion
- morning morn-ing
- taken tak-en
- rather ra-ther
- reason rea-son
- whether wheth-er
- further fur-ther
- living liv-ing
- major ma-jor
- building build-ing
- easy eas-y
- market mar-ket
- final fi-nal
- former for-mer
- ready read-y
- college col-lege
- current cur-rent
- program pro-gram
- baby ba-by
- father fa-ther
- process pro-cess
- study stud-y
- action ac-tion
- outside out-side
- moment mo-ment
- mother moth-er
- fine fi-ne
- issue is-sue
- running run-ning
- summer sum-mer
- project proj-ect
- total to-tal
- common com-mon
- likely like-ly
- center cen-ter
- county coun-ty
- couple cou-ple
- happen hap-pen
- online on-line
- player play-er
- private pri-vate
- higher high-er
- member mem-ber
- middle mid-dle
- needed need-ed
- present pres-ent
- sorry sor-ry
- training train-ing
- answer an-swer
- certain cer-tain
- longer long-er
- movie mov-ie
- meeting meet-ing
- value val-ue
- follow fol-low
- reading read-ing
- feeling feel-ing
- model mod-el
- picture pic-ture
- central cen-tral
- forward for-ward
- science sci-ence
- brother broth-er
- cannot can-not
- football foot-ball
- lower low-er
- august au-gust
- language lan-guage
- title ti-tle
- website web-site
- written writ-ten
- council coun-cil
- cover cov-er
- foreign for-eign
- legal le-gal
- seven sev-en
- simple sim-ple
- simply sim-ply
- super su-per
- union un-ion
- crazy cra-zy
- daily dai-ly
- daughter daugh-ter
- figure fig-ure
- modern mod-ern
- paper pa-per
- published pub-lished
- version ver-sion
- writing writ-ing
- army ar-my
- listen lis-ten
- practice prac-tice
- waiting wait-ing
- access ac-cess
- offer of-fer
- table ta-ble
- district dis-trict
- recent re-cent
- seeing see-ing
- visit vis-it
- culture cul-ture
- married mar-ried
- river riv-er
- standard stand-ard
- album al-bum
- funny fun-ny
- moving mov-ing
- network net-work
- student stu-dent
- via vi-a
- anti an-ti
- double dou-ble
- island is-land
- normal nor-mal
- pressure pres-sure
- station sta-tion
- treatment treat-ment
- western west-ern
- content con-tent
- credit cred-it
- female fe-male
- focus fo-cus
- husband hus-band
- leading lead-ing
- message mes-sage
3 syllables 200
- family fam-i-ly
- company com-pa-ny
- different dif-fer-ent
- government gov-ern-ment
- anything an-y-thing
- everything ev-ery-thing
- national na-tion-al
- everyone ev-ery-one
- general gen-er-al
- area ar-e-a
- following fol-low-ing
- president pres-i-dent
- video vid-e-o
- history his-to-ry
- several sev-er-al
- anyone an-y-one
- probably prob-a-bly
- possible pos-si-ble
- media me-di-a
- energy en-er-gy
- beautiful beau-ti-ful
- period pe-ri-od
- similar sim-i-lar
- personal per-son-al
- industry in-dus-try
- finally fi-nal-ly
- interest in-ter-est
- policy pol-i-cy
- average av-er-age
- medical med-i-cal
- evidence ev-i-dence
- federal fed-er-al
- management man-age-ment
- various var-i-ous
- character char-ac-ter
- natural nat-u-ral
- property prop-er-ty
- quality qual-i-ty
- serious se-ri-ous
- article ar-ti-cle
- currently cur-rent-ly
- difficult dif-fi-cult
- hospital hos-pi-tal
- popular pop-u-lar
- internet in-ter-net
- minister min-is-ter
- officer of-fic-er
- century cen-tu-ry
- limited lim-it-ed
- recently re-cent-ly
- capital cap-i-tal
- conference con-fer-ence
- difference dif-fer-ence
- radio ra-di-o
- certainly cer-tain-ly
- previous pre-vi-ous
- positive pos-i-tive
- earlier ear-li-er
- episode ep-i-sode
- favorite fa-vor-ite
- manager man-ag-er
- nobody no-bod-y
- regular reg-u-lar
- annual an-nu-al
- opening o-pen-ing
- physical phys-i-cal
- multiple mul-ti-ple
- anyway an-y-way
- easily eas-i-ly
- yesterday yes-ter-day
- overall o-ver-all
- otherwise oth-er-wise
- primary pri-ma-ry
- theory the-o-ry
- agency a-gen-cy
- camera cam-er-a
- politics pol-i-tics
- interview in-ter-view
- library li-brar-y
- actual ac-tu-al
- powerful pow-er-ful
- wonderful won-der-ful
- critical crit-i-cal
- digital dig-i-tal
- realize re-al-ize
- separate sep-a-rate
- totally to-tal-ly
- benefit ben-e-fit
- animal an-i-mal
- memory mem-o-ry
- happening hap-pen-ing
- institute in-sti-tute
- somebody some-bod-y
- dangerous dan-ger-ous
- negative neg-a-tive
- influence in-flu-ence
- marketing mar-ket-ing
- leadership lead-er-ship
- possibly pos-si-bly
- easier eas-i-er
- vehicle ve-hi-cle
- criminal crim-i-nal
- cultural cul-tur-al
- technical tech-ni-cal
- violence vi-o-lence
- injury in-ju-ry
- magazine mag-a-zine
- parliament par-lia-ment
- reference ref-er-ence
- strategy strat-e-gy
- audience au-di-ence
- excellent ex-cel-lent
- medicine med-i-cine
- nuclear nu-cle-ar
- victory vic-to-ry
- festival fes-ti-val
- regional re-gion-al
- accident ac-ci-dent
- anywhere an-y-where
- governor gov-er-nor
- terrible ter-ri-ble
- enemy en-e-my
- honestly hon-est-ly
- minimum min-i-mum
- suddenly sud-den-ly
- exercise ex-er-cise
- restaurant res-tau-rant
- candidate can-di-date
- everywhere ev-ery-where
- holiday hol-i-day
- liberal lib-er-al
- studio stu-di-o
- confidence con-fi-dence
- numerous nu-mer-ous
- argument ar-gu-ment
- corporate cor-po-rate
- properly prop-er-ly
- revenue rev-e-nue
- coverage cov-er-age
- ministry min-is-try
- obvious ob-vi-ous
- stadium sta-di-um
- surgery sur-ger-y
- champion cham-pi-on
- editor ed-i-tor
- opposite op-po-site
- suicide su-i-cide
- usual u-su-al
- alcohol al-co-hol
- capable ca-pa-ble
- customer cus-tom-er
- medium me-di-um
- perfectly per-fect-ly
- relevant rel-e-vant
- maximum max-i-mum
- newspaper news-pa-per
- offering of-fer-ing
- realized re-al-ized
- register reg-is-ter
- typical typ-i-cal
- universe u-ni-verse
- attitude at-ti-tude
- senator sen-a-tor
- accurate ac-cu-rate
- chemical chem-i-cal
- normally nor-mal-ly
- permanent per-ma-nent
- basketball bas-ket-ball
- frequently fre-quent-ly
- hopefully hope-ful-ly
- tournament tour-na-ment
- deputy dep-u-ty
- factory fac-to-ry
- maintenance main-te-nance
- origin or-i-gin
- absolute ab-so-lute
- heavily heav-i-ly
- incident in-ci-dent
- constantly con-stant-ly
- suffering suf-fer-ing
- ultimate ul-ti-mate
- wondering won-der-ing
- battery bat-ter-y
- fantasy fan-ta-sy
- principal prin-ci-pal
- recognize rec-og-nize
- recognized rec-og-nized
- registered reg-is-tered
- therapy ther-a-py
- clinical clin-i-cal
- comedy com-e-dy
- musical mu-si-cal
- organized or-gan-ized
- valuable val-ua-ble
- document doc-u-ment
- graduate grad-u-ate
- neighborhood neigh-bor-hood
- operate op-er-ate
- visual vis-u-al
- cabinet cab-i-net
4 or more syllables 200
- actually ac-tu-al-ly
- military mil-i-tar-y
- usually u-su-al-ly
- interesting in-ter-est-ing
- definitely def-i-nite-ly
- generally gen-er-al-ly
- interested in-ter-est-ed
- secretary sec-re-ta-ry
- seriously se-ri-ous-ly
- literally lit-er-al-ly
- necessary nec-es-sar-y
- everybody ev-ery-bod-y
- previously pre-vi-ous-ly
- engineering en-gi-neer-ing
- obviously ob-vi-ous-ly
- television tel-e-vi-sion
- comfortable com-fort-a-ble
- relatively rel-a-tive-ly
- temperature tem-per-a-ture
- basically ba-si-cal-ly
- literature lit-er-a-ture
- typically typ-i-cal-ly
- territory ter-ri-to-ry
- reasonable rea-son-a-ble
- category cat-e-go-ry
- personally per-son-al-ly
- ultimately ul-ti-mate-ly
- anybody an-y-bod-y
- advertising ad-ver-tis-ing
- championship cham-pi-on-ship
- secondary sec-ond-ar-y
- regularly reg-u-lar-ly
- criticism crit-i-ci-sm
- naturally nat-u-ral-ly
- temporary tem-po-rar-y
- complicated com-pli-cat-ed
- architecture ar-chi-tec-ture
- ceremony cer-e-mo-ny
- ordinary or-di-nar-y
- spiritual spir-it-u-al
- agriculture ag-ri-cul-ture
- difficulty dif-fi-cul-ty
- legislative leg-is-la-tive
- operator op-er-a-tor
- laboratory lab-o-ra-to-ry
- literary lit-er-ar-y
- physically phys-i-cal-ly
- similarly sim-i-lar-ly
- educated ed-u-cat-ed
- eligible el-i-gi-ble
- mechanism mech-a-ni-sm
- controversy con-tro-ver-sy
- virtually vir-tu-al-ly
- accuracy ac-cu-ra-cy
- terrorism ter-ror-i-sm
- differently dif-fer-ent-ly
- implemented im-ple-ment-ed
- legendary leg-end-ar-y
- regulatory reg-u-la-to-ry
- subsequently sub-se-quent-ly
- gradually grad-u-al-ly
- vulnerable vul-ner-a-ble
- commentary com-men-tar-y
- practically prac-ti-cal-ly
- situated sit-u-at-ed
- testimony tes-ti-mo-ny
- annually an-nu-al-ly
- legislature leg-is-la-ture
- presidency pres-i-den-cy
- motivated mo-ti-vat-ed
- applicable ap-pli-ca-ble
- fascinating fas-ci-nat-ing
- helicopter hel-i-cop-ter
- mandatory man-da-to-ry
- journalism jour-nal-i-sm
- variable var-i-a-ble
- calculated cal-cu-lat-ed
- citizenship cit-i-zen-ship
- genuinely gen-u-ine-ly
- innovative in-no-va-tive
- monetary mon-e-tar-y
- technically tech-ni-cal-ly
- comparable com-pa-ra-ble
- permanently per-ma-nent-ly
- separately sep-a-rate-ly
- animated an-i-mat-ed
- miserable mis-er-a-ble
- motorcycle mo-tor-cy-cle
- cemetery cem-e-ter-y
- profitable prof-it-a-ble
- reasonably rea-son-a-bly
- algorithm al-go-ri-thm
- dictionary dic-tion-ar-y
- voluntary vol-un-tar-y
- documented doc-u-ment-ed
- accurately ac-cu-rate-ly
- desperately des-per-ate-ly
- regulated reg-u-lat-ed
- capitalism cap-i-tal-i-sm
- fortunately for-tu-nate-ly
- memorable mem-o-ra-ble
- circulation cir-cu-la-tion
- elevator el-e-va-tor
- supervisor su-per-vi-sor
- terrifying ter-ri-fy-ing
- automobile au-to-mo-bile
- consequently con-se-quent-ly
- generator gen-er-a-tor
- prosecutor pros-e-cu-tor
- vegetable veg-e-ta-ble
- sanctuary sanc-tu-ar-y
- satisfying sat-is-fy-ing
- beautifully beau-ti-ful-ly
- indicator in-di-ca-tor
- underwater un-der-wa-ter
- charitable char-i-ta-ble
- nationalist na-tion-al-ist
- advocacy ad-vo-ca-cy
- arguably ar-gu-a-bly
- literacy lit-er-a-cy
- positively pos-i-tive-ly
- critically crit-i-cal-ly
- socialism so-cial-i-sm
- operative op-er-a-tive
- sovereignty sov-er-eign-ty
- arbitrary ar-bi-trar-y
- devastating dev-as-ta-ting
- favorable fa-vor-a-ble
- feminism fem-i-ni-sm
- governmental gov-ern-men-tal
- undertaken un-der-tak-en
- nationally na-tion-al-ly
- missionary mis-sion-ar-y
- nationalism na-tion-al-i-sm
- predecessor pre-de-ces-sor
- honorable hon-or-a-ble
- respiratory res-pi-ra-to-ry
- communism com-mun-i-sm
- decorative dec-o-ra-tive
- capitalist cap-i-tal-ist
- kindergarten kin-der-gar-ten
- populated pop-u-lat-ed
- ecosystem e-co-sys-tem
- hierarchy hi-er-ar-chy
- questionable ques-tion-a-ble
- supermarket su-per-mar-ket
- statutory stat-u-to-ry
- disciplinary dis-ci-pli-nar-y
- noticeable no-tice-a-ble
- veterinary vet-er-i-nar-y
- comfortably com-fort-a-bly
- quantitative quan-ti-ta-tive
- solitary sol-i-tar-y
- miniature min-i-a-ture
- undertaking un-der-tak-ing
- preferably pref-er-a-bly
- dietary di-e-tar-y
- manually man-u-al-ly
- residency res-i-den-cy
- negatively neg-a-tive-ly
- realism re-al-i-sm
- underestimate un-der-es-ti-mate
- efficacy ef-fi-ca-cy
- mutually mu-tu-al-ly
- activism ac-tiv-i-sm
- commentator com-men-ta-tor
- casually cas-u-al-ly
- honorary hon-or-ar-y
- optimism op-ti-mi-sm
- saturated sat-u-rat-ed
- storytelling sto-ry-tell-ing
- drastically dras-ti-cal-ly
- fashionable fash-ion-a-ble
- formidable for-mi-da-ble
- monastery mon-as-ter-y
- adequately ad-e-quate-ly
- culturally cul-tur-al-ly
- intimacy in-ti-ma-cy
- multiplayer mul-ti-play-er
- stationary sta-tion-ar-y
- subdivision sub-di-vi-sion
- regulator reg-u-la-tor
- violently vi-o-lent-ly
- casualty cas-u-al-ty
- irritating ir-ri-tat-ing
- simulator sim-u-la-tor
- cultivated cul-ti-vat-ed
- evidently ev-i-dent-ly
- interestingly in-ter-est-ing-ly
- organism or-gan-i-sm
- patriotism pa-tri-ot-i-sm
- calculating cal-cu-lat-ing
- organizer or-gan-iz-er
- calculator cal-cu-la-tor
- culinary cu-li-nar-y
- moderately mod-er-ate-ly
- overlapping o-ver-lap-ping
- planetary plan-e-tar-y
- seriousness se-ri-ous-ness
- cumulative cu-mu-la-tive