Two-syllable words
Two-syllable words have two vowel sounds: ta-ble, hap-py, a-bout. Most nouns and adjectives stress the first syllable (TA-ble) and many verbs the second (be-GIN).
Stress on the 1st syllable 250
- 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
- nearly near-ly
- quickly quick-ly
- region re-gion
- section sec-tion
- travel trav-el
- contact con-tact
- welcome wel-come
- extra ex-tra
- minute min-ute
- nature na-ture
- winning win-ning
- income in-come
- justice jus-tice
- movement move-ment
- photo pho-to
- safety safe-ty
- statement state-ment
- calling call-ing
- heavy heav-y
- knowledge knowl-edge
- author au-thor
- global glob-al
- lady la-dy
- leader lead-er
- letter let-ter
- product prod-uct
- sister sis-ter
- unit u-nit
- battle bat-tle
- contract con-tract
- finished fin-ished
- growing grow-ing
- image im-age
- stupid stu-pid
- active ac-tive
- biggest big-gest
- cancer can-cer
- civil civ-il
- master mas-ter
- weekend week-end
- wonder won-der
- awesome awe-some
- clearly clear-ly
- effort ef-fort
- fighting fight-ing
- latest lat-est
- older old-er
- secret se-cret
- senior sen-ior
- telling tell-ing
Stress on the 2nd syllable 250
- 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
- destroy de-stroy
- expressed ex-pressed
- survive sur-vive
- defeat de-feat
- exact ex-act
- exposed ex-posed
- opposed op-posed
- suspect sus-pect
- contain con-tain
- reply re-ply
- repeat re-peat
- guitar gui-tar
- ignore ig-nore
- confused con-fused
- defend de-fend
- extent ex-tent
- occur oc-cur
- technique tech-nique
- belief be-lief
- compare com-pare
- discussed dis-cussed
- informed in-formed
- refer re-fer
- select se-lect
- assault as-sault
- concrete con-crete
- ideal i-deal
- reveal re-veal
- alright al-right
- assist as-sist
- behalf be-half
- remote re-mote
- repair re-pair
- whereas where-as
- confirm con-firm
- convinced con-vinced
- decline de-cline
- delay de-lay
- elite e-lite
- insane in-sane
- obtain ob-tain
- abroad a-broad
- assigned as-signed
- compete com-pete
- intense in-tense
- observed ob-served
- reflect re-flect
- refuse re-fuse
- arrive ar-rive
- belong be-long