Stress on the second syllable
Many two-syllable verbs and words with a prefix are stressed on the second syllable: be-GIN, de-CIDE, a-BOUT, ba-NA-na.
2 syllables 200
- about a-bout
- because be-cause
- before be-fore
- around a-round
- between be-tween
- again a-gain
- without with-out
- against a-gainst
- away a-way
- until un-til
- today to-day
- enough e-nough
- support sup-port
- believe be-lieve
- within with-in
- ago a-go
- become be-come
- control con-trol
- research re-search
- along a-long
- police po-lice
- report re-port
- among a-mong
- myself my-self
- yourself your-self
- although al-though
- behind be-hind
- across a-cross
- himself him-self
- instead in-stead
- account ac-count
- include in-clude
- record re-cord
- above a-bove
- perfect per-fect
- inside in-side
- return re-turn
- event e-vent
- result re-sult
- design de-sign
- alone a-lone
- themselves them-selves
- became be-came
- provide pro-vide
- amount a-mount
- review re-view
- upon up-on
- complete com-plete
- involved in-volved
- itself it-self
- attack at-tack
- enjoy en-joy
- entire en-tire
- perhaps per-haps
- release re-lease
- increase in-crease
- began be-gan
- career ca-reer
- forget for-get
- okay o-kay
- success suc-cess
- below be-low
- released re-leased
- percent per-cent
- respect re-spect
- response re-sponse
- tonight to-night
- create cre-ate
- effect ef-fect
- except ex-cept
- ahead a-head
- allow al-low
- expect ex-pect
- campaign cam-paign
- despite de-spite
- throughout through-out
- beyond be-yond
- unless un-less
- agree a-gree
- announced an-nounced
- subject sub-ject
- hotel ho-tel
- degree de-gree
- approach ap-proach
- defense de-fense
- impact im-pact
- protect pro-tect
- direct di-rect
- increased in-creased
- supposed sup-posed
- disease dis-ease
- machine ma-chine
- explain ex-plain
- advice ad-vice
- award a-ward
- avoid a-void
- accept ac-cept
- appear ap-pear
- attempt at-tempt
- exchange ex-change
- receive re-ceive
- begin be-gin
- demand de-mand
- remain re-main
- estate es-tate
- apply ap-ply
- supply sup-ply
- adult a-dult
- correct cor-rect
- improve im-prove
- indeed in-deed
- prevent pre-vent
- apart a-part
- aware a-ware
- decide de-cide
- herself her-self
- produce pro-duce
- require re-quire
- alive a-live
- request re-quest
- concerned con-cerned
- suggest sug-gest
- surprise sur-prise
- unique u-nique
- prepared pre-pared
- exist ex-ist
- reduce re-duce
- hello hel-lo
- toward to-ward
- transfer trans-fer
- remove re-move
- afraid a-fraid
- command com-mand
- ensure en-sure
- supreme su-preme
- survey sur-vey
- update up-date
- combined com-bined
- express ex-press
- performed per-formed
- transport trans-port
- appeal ap-peal
- confirmed con-firmed
- device de-vice
- mistake mis-take
- abuse a-buse
- concern con-cern
- discuss dis-cuss
- perform per-form
- advance ad-vance
- finance fi-nance
- maintain main-tain
- revealed re-vealed
- approved ap-proved
- debate de-bate
- escape es-cape
- secure se-cure
- display dis-play
- forgot for-got
- inspired in-spired
- ourselves our-selves
- desire de-sire
- improved im-proved
- referred re-ferred
- upset up-set
- extreme ex-treme
- reserve re-serve
- affect af-fect
- aside a-side
- controlled con-trolled
- deserve de-serve
- explained ex-plained
- admit ad-mit
- replace re-place
- achieve a-chieve
- afford af-ford
- assume as-sume
- detail de-tail
- occurred oc-curred
- prefer pre-fer
- unlike un-like
- defined de-fined
- describe de-scribe
- excuse ex-cuse
- premier prem-ier
- promote pro-mote
- severe se-vere
- suppose sup-pose
- arrest ar-rest
- attend at-tend
- declared de-clared
- prepare pre-pare
- relief re-lief
- marine ma-rine
- reform re-form
- respond re-spond
- unknown un-known
- attached at-tached
- debut de-but
- decade dec-ade
3 syllables 200
- another an-oth-er
- however how-ev-er
- already al-read-y
- united u-nit-ed
- together to-geth-er
- important im-por-tant
- remember re-mem-ber
- idea i-de-a
- according ac-cord-ing
- example ex-am-ple
- department de-part-ment
- position po-si-tion
- performance per-for-mance
- director di-rec-tor
- exactly ex-act-ly
- official of-fi-cial
- production pro-duc-tion
- whatever what-ev-er
- attention at-ten-tion
- amazing a-maz-ing
- decided de-cid-ed
- decision de-ci-sion
- considered con-sid-ered
- continue con-tin-ue
- election e-lec-tion
- financial fi-nan-cial
- specific spe-cif-ic
- provided pro-vid-ed
- tomorrow to-mor-row
- addition ad-di-tion
- committee com-mit-tee
- potential po-ten-tial
- beginning be-gin-ning
- completely com-plete-ly
- reported re-port-ed
- consider con-sid-er
- computer com-put-er
- construction con-struc-tion
- collection col-lec-tion
- developed de-vel-oped
- insurance in-sur-ance
- opinion o-pin-ion
- successful suc-cess-ful
- direction di-rec-tion
- commercial com-mer-cial
- imagine im-ag-ine
- commission com-mis-sion
- directly di-rect-ly
- professor pro-fes-sor
- effective ef-fec-tive
- agreement a-gree-ment
- equipment e-quip-ment
- condition con-di-tion
- division di-vi-sion
- location lo-ca-tion
- protection pro-tec-tion
- religious re-li-gious
- investment in-vest-ment
- solution so-lu-tion
- becoming be-com-ing
- foundation foun-da-tion
- edition e-di-tion
- extremely ex-treme-ly
- advantage ad-van-tage
- completed com-plet-ed
- connection con-nec-tion
- develop de-vel-op
- discovered dis-cov-ered
- excited ex-cit-ed
- forever for-ev-er
- religion re-li-gion
- description de-scrip-tion
- reaction re-ac-tion
- assistant as-sis-tant
- electric e-lec-tric
- entirely en-tire-ly
- initial in-i-tial
- discussion dis-cus-sion
- fantastic fan-tas-tic
- museum mu-se-um
- intended in-tend-ed
- appearance ap-pear-ance
- attorney at-tor-ney
- behavior be-hav-ior
- domestic do-mes-tic
- expensive ex-pen-sive
- connected con-nect-ed
- illegal il-le-gal
- increasing in-creas-ing
- supported sup-port-ed
- accepted ac-cept-ed
- internal in-ter-nal
- recorded re-cord-ed
- apartment a-part-ment
- committed com-mit-ted
- affected af-fect-ed
- determined de-ter-mined
- collected col-lect-ed
- determine de-ter-mine
- whenever when-ev-er
- delivered de-liv-ered
- selection se-lec-tion
- assembly as-sem-bly
- essential es-sen-tial
- familiar fa-mil-iar
- unable un-a-ble
- creative cre-a-tive
- republic re-pub-lic
- assistance as-sis-tance
- pacific pa-cif-ic
- consumer con-sum-er
- creation cre-a-tion
- depending de-pend-ing
- depression de-pres-sion
- employment em-ploy-ment
- exclusive ex-clu-sive
- importance im-por-tance
- perspective per-spec-tive
- deliver de-liv-er
- existence ex-ist-ence
- expression ex-pres-sion
- resistance re-sist-ance
- exciting ex-cit-ing
- expansion ex-pan-sion
- attractive at-trac-tive
- invited in-vit-ed
- retirement re-tire-ment
- external ex-ter-nal
- commander com-mand-er
- entitled en-ti-tled
- protected pro-tect-ed
- recording re-cord-ing
- approval ap-prov-al
- convention con-ven-tion
- employee em-ploy-ee
- outstanding out-stand-ing
- permission per-mis-sion
- tradition tra-di-tion
- admitted ad-mit-ted
- appointment ap-point-ment
- extensive ex-ten-sive
- formation for-ma-tion
- historic his-tor-ic
- improvement im-prove-ment
- surrounding sur-round-ing
- consistent con-sist-ent
- percentage per-cent-age
- regardless re-gard-less
- attended at-tend-ed
- divided di-vid-ed
- impressive im-pres-sive
- proposal pro-po-sal
- adventure ad-ven-ture
- assessment as-sess-ment
- establish es-tab-lish
- extension ex-ten-sion
- offensive of-fen-sive
- transition tran-si-tion
- alongside a-long-side
- encourage en-cour-age
- enforcement en-force-ment
- arrival ar-ri-val
- awareness a-ware-ness
- exposure ex-po-sure
- lieutenant lieu-ten-ant
- procedure pro-ce-dure
- producer pro-duc-er
- replacement re-place-ment
- commitment com-mit-ment
- romantic ro-man-tic
- strategic stra-te-gic
- designer de-sign-er
- efficient ef-fi-cient
- whoever who-ev-er
- dramatic dra-mat-ic
- promotion pro-mo-tion
- alliance al-li-ance
- annoying an-noy-ing
- conclusion con-clu-sion
- forgotten for-got-ten
- organic or-gan-ic
- vacation va-ca-tion
- disaster dis-as-ter
- discover dis-cov-er
- reduction re-duc-tion
- translation trans-la-tion
- amendment a-mend-ment
- defensive de-fen-sive
- occasion oc-ca-sion
- possession pos-ses-sion
- survival sur-viv-al
- achievement a-chieve-ment
- destruction de-struc-tion
- objective ob-jec-tive
- consumption con-sump-tion
- corruption cor-rup-tion
- exception ex-cep-tion
- impression im-pres-sion
- referring re-fer-ring
- removal re-mov-al
4 or more syllables 200
- community com-mu-ni-ty
- development de-vel-op-ment
- political po-lit-i-cal
- available a-vail-a-ble
- experience ex-pe-ri-ence
- especially es-pe-cial-ly
- security se-cu-ri-ty
- society so-ci-e-ty
- original o-rig-i-nal
- relationship re-la-tion-ship
- technology tech-nol-o-gy
- professional pro-fes-sion-al
- particular par-tic-u-lar
- additional ad-di-tion-al
- immediately im-me-di-ate-ly
- significant sig-nif-i-cant
- ability a-bil-i-ty
- particularly par-tic-u-lar-ly
- material ma-te-ri-al
- majority ma-jor-i-ty
- analysis a-nal-y-sis
- reality re-al-i-ty
- eventually e-ven-tu-al-ly
- responsible re-spon-si-ble
- economy e-con-o-my
- environment en-vi-ron-ment
- executive ex-ec-u-tive
- activity ac-tiv-i-ty
- traditional tra-di-tion-al
- authority au-thor-i-ty
- apparently ap-par-ent-ly
- impossible im-pos-si-ble
- variety va-ri-e-ty
- appreciate ap-pre-ci-ate
- emergency e-mer-gen-cy
- alternative al-ter-na-tive
- capacity ca-pac-i-ty
- industrial in-dus-tri-al
- intelligence in-tel-li-gence
- republican re-pub-li-can
- historical his-tor-i-cal
- originally o-rig-i-nal-ly
- appropriate ap-pro-pri-ate
- emotional e-mo-tion-al
- identity i-den-ti-ty
- specifically spe-cif-i-cal-ly
- approximately ap-prox-i-mate-ly
- identified i-den-ti-fied
- incredible in-cred-i-ble
- unfortunately un-for-tu-nate-ly
- conservative con-serv-a-tive
- facility fa-cil-i-ty
- delivery de-liv-er-y
- recovery re-cov-er-y
- academy a-cad-e-my
- competitive com-pet-i-tive
- identify i-den-ti-fy
- interior in-te-ri-or
- significantly sig-nif-i-cant-ly
- officially of-fi-cial-ly
- immediate im-me-di-ate
- comparison com-par-i-son
- democracy de-moc-ra-cy
- equivalent e-quiv-a-lent
- contemporary con-tem-po-rar-y
- effectively ef-fec-tive-ly
- initially in-i-tial-ly
- philosophy phi-los-o-phy
- primarily pri-ma-ri-ly
- ridiculous ri-dic-u-lous
- superior su-pe-ri-or
- administrative ad-min-is-tra-tive
- anxiety anx-i-e-ty
- discovery dis-cov-er-y
- photography pho-tog-ra-phy
- respectively re-spec-tive-ly
- successfully suc-cess-ful-ly
- unusual un-u-su-al
- commissioner com-mis-sion-er
- electrical e-lec-tri-cal
- essentially es-sen-tial-ly
- establishment es-tab-lish-ment
- participate par-tic-i-pate
- memorial me-mo-ri-al
- minority mi-nor-i-ty
- priority pri-or-i-ty
- associate as-so-ci-ate
- occasionally oc-ca-sion-al-ly
- potentially po-ten-tial-ly
- efficiency ef-fi-cien-cy
- experiment ex-per-i-ment
- increasingly in-creas-ing-ly
- incredibly in-cred-i-bly
- extraordinary ex-traor-di-nar-y
- initiative in-i-tia-tive
- ambassador am-bas-sa-dor
- mechanical me-chan-i-cal
- diversity di-ver-si-ty
- humanity hu-man-i-ty
- distributed dis-trib-ut-ed
- investigate in-ves-ti-gate
- psychology psy-chol-o-gy
- stability sta-bil-i-ty
- celebrity ce-leb-ri-ty
- certificate cer-tif-i-cate
- intelligent in-tel-li-gent
- reliable re-li-a-ble
- remarkable re-mark-a-ble
- photographer pho-tog-ra-pher
- acceptable ac-cept-a-ble
- hilarious hi-lar-i-ous
- utility u-til-i-ty
- conspiracy con-spir-a-cy
- equality e-qual-i-ty
- accompanied ac-com-pa-nied
- considerable con-sid-er-a-ble
- conventional con-ven-tion-al
- consistently con-sist-ent-ly
- exclusively ex-clu-sive-ly
- municipal mu-nic-i-pal
- affordable af-ford-a-ble
- biology bi-ol-o-gy
- integrity in-teg-ri-ty
- legitimate le-git-i-mate
- continuous con-tin-u-ous
- criteria cri-te-ri-a
- identical i-den-ti-cal
- imperial im-pe-ri-al
- repeatedly re-peat-ed-ly
- additionally ad-di-tion-al-ly
- communicate com-mu-ni-cate
- developer de-vel-op-er
- incorporated in-cor-po-rat-ed
- bacteria bac-te-ri-a
- congressional con-gres-sion-al
- scenario sce-nar-i-o
- sustainable sus-tain-a-ble
- uncomfortable un-com-fort-a-ble
- accessible ac-ces-si-ble
- advisory ad-vi-so-ry
- consecutive con-sec-u-tive
- significance sig-nif-i-cance
- unnecessary un-nec-es-sar-y
- anonymous a-non-y-mous
- colonial co-lo-ni-al
- mysterious mys-te-ri-ous
- apologize a-pol-o-gize
- appreciated ap-pre-ci-at-ed
- indigenous in-dig-e-nous
- preliminary pre-lim-i-nar-y
- eliminate e-lim-i-nate
- embarrassing em-bar-rass-ing
- portfolio port-fo-li-o
- encouraging en-cour-ag-ing
- intensity in-ten-si-ty
- statistical sta-tis-ti-cal
- phenomenon phe-nom-e-non
- reportedly re-port-ed-ly
- curriculum cur-ric-u-lum
- electoral e-lec-tor-al
- occasional oc-ca-sion-al
- unfortunate un-for-tu-nate
- molecular mo-lec-u-lar
- unlimited un-lim-it-ed
- importantly im-por-tant-ly
- invisible in-vis-i-ble
- surprisingly sur-pris-ing-ly
- anticipated an-tic-i-pat-ed
- diameter di-am-e-ter
- historically his-tor-i-cal-ly
- inevitable in-ev-i-ta-ble
- administrator ad-min-is-tra-tor
- adorable a-dor-a-ble
- allegedly al-leg-ed-ly
- elaborate e-lab-o-rate
- politically pol-i-ti-cal-ly
- presumably pre-sum-a-bly
- spectacular spec-tac-u-lar
- traditionally tra-di-tion-al-ly
- apology a-pol-o-gy
- attributed at-trib-ut-ed
- effectiveness ef-fec-tive-ness
- exceptional ex-cep-tion-al
- mobility mo-bil-i-ty
- sophisticated so-phis-ti-cat-ed
- emotionally e-mo-tion-al-ly
- experiencing ex-pe-ri-enc-ing
- magnificent mag-nif-i-cent
- dimensional di-men-sion-al
- peninsula pen-in-su-la
- uncertainty un-cer-tain-ty
- accommodate ac-com-mo-date
- accordingly ac-cord-ing-ly
- complexity com-plex-i-ty
- deliberately de-lib-er-ate-ly
- enthusiasm en-thu-si-a-sm
- machinery ma-chin-er-y
- aluminum a-lu-mi-num
- evaluate e-val-u-ate
- considerably con-sid-er-a-bly